Ballard, J. G.
Ballard, J. G. , James Graham Ballard ( 1930 – ),English novelist and short story writer, born in Shanghai and educated at Cambridge. He became known in the 1960s as the most prominent of the ‘New Wave’ science fiction writers. His first short story was published in 1956 in New Worlds, a periodical to which he continued to contribute during the influential editorship of Moorcock . His first novel, The Drowned World ( 1962 ), a ‘catastrophe’ novel in which the world turns into a vast swamp, was followed by The Drought ( 1965 ), in which he imagined post-apocalyptic landscapes and populated them with realistically observed, ultra-obsessive characters. Crash ( 1973 ) was an outstanding, outrageous work, years ahead of its time, if there could ever be a time when the eroticism of car accidents would be an acceptable subject for a novel. His collections of short stories include...
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