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The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard
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A collection of 98 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories, spanning five decades, venerates the remarkable imagination of J. G. Ballard. With a body of work unparalleled in twentieth-century literature, J. G. Ballard is recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic writers in the world. With the much-hailed release of The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard, readers now have a means to celebrate the unmatched range and mesmerizing cadences of a literary genius. Whether writing about musical orchids, human cannibalism, or the secret history of World War III, Ballard's Complete Stories evokes the hallucinations of Kafka and Borges in its ability to render modern paranoia and fantastical creations on the page. A Washington Post Best Book of 2009, Boston Globe Best Book, Los Angeles Times Favorite Book, and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book.
The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard
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First published in 1978, this collection of nineteen of Ballard's best short stories is as timely and informed as ever. His tales of the human psyche and its relationship to nature and technology, as viewed through a strong microscope, were eerily prescient and now provide greater perspective on our computer-dominated culture. Ballard's voice and vision have long served as a font of inspiration for today's cyber-punks, the authors and futurist who brought the information age into the mainstream.
The Best Of SpikeMagazine.com - The Interviews
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Exclusive in-depth interviews with JG Ballard (four of them in fact), Will Self (also four interviews), Douglas Coupland, Quentin Crisp, Julie Burchill, Catherine Camus (daughter of Albert Camus), Ralph Steadman, Arvo Part, Thurston Moore, Peter Saville, Tony Wilson, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Patricia Duncker, Alex Garland, Iain Banks, William Gibson, Tom Hodgkinson, Allen Ginsberg, Nick Hornby, Jeff Noon, P.J. O'Rourke, Iain Sinclair, Alan Warner and Damo Suzuki from the archives of SpikeMagazine.com, one of the UK's longest established culture websites. Conducted from 1990 through to 2010, these interviews provide a special insight into the work of some of the 20th century's most interesting writers, musicians and artists.
Exclusive in-depth interviews with JG Ballard (four of them in fact), Will Self (also four interviews), Douglas Coupland, Quentin Crisp, Julie Burchill, Catherine Camus (daughter of Albert Camus), Ralph Steadman, Arvo Part, Thurston Moore, Peter Saville, Tony Wilson, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Patricia Duncker, Alex Garland, Iain Banks, William Gibson, Tom Hodgkinson, Allen Ginsberg, Nick Hornby, Jeff Noon, P.J. O'Rourke, Iain Sinclair, Alan Warner and Damo Suzuki from the archives of SpikeMagazine.com, one of the UK's longest established culture websites. Conducted from 1990 through to 2010, these interviews provide a special insight into the work of some of the 20th century's most interesting writers, musicians and artists.
Crash: A Novel
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In this hallucinatory novel, an automobile provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted visionary as he careens rapidly toward his own demise in an internationally orchestrated car crash with Elizabeth Taylor.
A classic work of cutting-edge fiction, Crash explores both the disturbing implications and horrific possibilities of contemporary society's increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations.
J. G. Ballard's graphic, violent novel is controversial wherever it is read, even on Amazon.com's own Web page! The book's characters are obsessed with automobile accidents and are determined to narrate the horrors of the car crash as luridly as possible. In the words of the novel's protagonist, the wounds caused by automobile collisions are "the keys to a new sexuality born from a perverse technology." Read this novel and learn why David Cronenberg, who had previously adapted Dead Ringers and Naked Lunch for the screen, fought to turn it into his latest film.
J.G. Ballard Conversations
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A highly sought cultural commentator, J. G. Ballard has provided thoughtful remarks on the state of the world for decades. J.G. Ballard Conversations brings together several of Ballard's latest interviews and gives readers penetrating insight into the mind of one of the freshest thinkers at work today. Covering topics such at the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the evolution of sexual relationships, and our strange, immersive celebrity culture, this book is a fount of provocative takes on the things that matter. Rounded out with rare photographs of Ballard and supplemental resources, J.G. Ballard Conversations is a necessary item for anyone interested in the modern world.
Millennium People
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"Terrifying and strangely haunting. . . . A riveting work from a writer of rare imaginative largesse, a bearer of bad tidings, unforgettably told."—Daily Telegraph The explosive J.G. Ballard renaissance, which began with the 2009 publication of The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard, continues with the appearance of Millennium People, Ballard’s first new novel to be published in America in nearly a decade. No writer, certainly no fiction writer, has examined in recent times the profound social malaise of the middle classes as presciently as Ballard, whose penultimate novel, Millennium People, a brilliant political satire, is filled with stunning psychological insights, twisted humor, and unrelenting suspense. When a bomb goes off at Heathrow Airport it looks like another random act of violence to psychologist David Markham. But then he discovers that his ex-wife Laura is among the victims. Following a police lead that suggests the explosion was not the work of a foreign terrorist, but instead a shadowy and ruthless group based in the comfortable Thameside estate of Chelsea Marina, Markham begins to infiltrate London’s fringe protest movement. Led by Richard Gould, a charismatic pediatrician turned cult leader, the clandestine group aims to rouse London’s squeezed middle classes to anger and violence, to free them from both the self-imposed burdens of civic responsibility and the trappings of a consumer society: private schools, foreign nannies, health insurance, and overpriced housing. But when Markham becomes enamored with an exotic film studies professor who moonlights as a terrorist cell leader, he too gets caught up in the idealistic campaign spiraling rapidly out of control. At last succumbing to the irresistible charms of Gould, the group’s leader, Markham abandons his original investigation to give his unyielding support to the uprising, becoming an active participant in the process. As widespread rioting erupts and England’s capital city becomes a crucible of existential rage, a frenzied English populous begins destroying the very symbols that define their middle-class status, setting fire to Volvos, destroying travel agencies, and smoke-bombing department stores. In an unnerving and prophetic ending that is so jarring it will resonate well beyond the confines of fiction, Millennium People becomes more than a novel; it becomes a shockingly plausible, deeply unsettling vision of society in collapse, one that, in the words of John Gray in the New Statesman, “dissects the perverse psychology that links terrorists with their innocent victims.”
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Vicenzo Natali Erecting JG Ballard's High Rise In the Ocean - /FILM
/FILM, MA - May 22, 2009
/FILMVicenzo Natali Erecting JG Ballard's High Rise In the OceanThe original novel High Rise was written by JG Ballard, the recently departed visionary of speculative and satirical fiction. In his career stacked high with nightmarish visions of humanity, this one ranked among the most frightening. Vincenzo Natali's High Rise Is A Beautiful Skyscraper Of Doom
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Home-made Lisztomania YouTube video brings Phoenix fans - Times Online
Times Online, UK - May 23, 2009
Times OnlineHome-made Lisztomania YouTube video brings Phoenix fans the mysteries of Metallica's backstage behaviour, the Catholic imagery in Damien Hirst's skulls and tales of near-death experiences at various festivals — all of them liberally peppered with references from Milton and Byron to Da Vinci, JG Ballard
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What JG Ballard Novel Is Christian Bale Adapting To Film? - io9
io9, CA - May 09, 2009
MTV.comWhat JG Ballard Novel Is Christian Bale Adapting To Film?Christian Bale is itching to jump back into another genre film via the works of beloved author JG Ballard. The actor revealed his desire for another Ballard film - update (we think we know). While discussing Terminator Salvation with reporters here in Christian Bale Wants To Get Marooned
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JG Ballard in the New Yorker and more short stories - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times, CA - Feb 04, 4653
JG Ballard in the New Yorker and more short storiesThe new story "The Autobiography of JGB" by JG Ballard, who died April 19, is in this week's issue of the New Yorker. It feels to me like he got up in the middle of the story and never came back to finish it. But then again, Ballard was always messing JG Ballard's final short story in The New Yorker Remembrance of reads past
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Pierrot Le Fou, review - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - May 22, 2009
Telegraph.co.ukPierrot Le Fou, reviewOne extraordinary shot, as Belmondo and Karina cross a field, followed by a thick plume of smoke from the burning wreckage of their car, would be almost unthinkable today without CGI. Prefiguring the entire career of JG Ballard, it'sa crazy landmark
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