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J. G. Ballard (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)

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J. G. Ballard has been a prolific short-story writer; there are more than twenty collections of his stories, though some are recombinations of stories in earlier collections, and the American and British collections constitute two series in which the same stories are combined in different ways. He has written occasional essays on imaginative fiction, and also on surrealist painting—he contributed an introduction to a collection of work by Salvador Dalí. Many of these essays are collected in A User’s Guide to the Millennium: Essays and Reviews...

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