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J. G. Ballard
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British novelist (1930–2009)
OverviewAI-generated
J. G. Ballard was a British author whose career began in 1951. Born on 15 November 1930, he died on 19 April 2009. His bibliography includes 268 works, with notable titles such as *The Drought*, *Why I want to fuck Ronald Reagan*, *Connoisseur's Science Fiction*, and *Antología de la literatura fantástica*. Other listed works include *חברת החלומות בעב"ם*.
Ballard’s writings have been categorized with tags including "english" and "Audiobook." His body of work has been referenced by 676 other encyclopedia articles.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 15 November 1930
- Died
- 19 April 2009
- Works
- 268
Top works
- Connoisseur's Science Fiction
- חברת החלומות בעב"ם
- Antología de la literatura fantástica
- The Drought
- Why I want to fuck Ronald Reagan
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 197
- Total plays
- 2,057
Tags
James Graham Ballard (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, and prominent member of the New Wave movement in science fiction. His best-known books are Crash (1973), adapted into a film by David Cronenberg, and the semi-autobiographical Empire of the Sun (1984), made into a film by Steven Spielberg, based on Ballard's boyhood in the International Settlement and internment by the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second World War. <a href="https://www.last.
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,472x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,938x
- Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3
· 2024 · cited 15,119x
- Overview of the<i>CCP</i>4 suite and current developments
· 2011 · cited 11,943x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,989x
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Quotes
- “Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.”
- “I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.”
- “I define Inner Space as an imaginary realm in which on the one hand the outer world of reality, and on the other the inner world of the mind meet and merge. Now, in the landscapes of the surrealist painters, for example, one sees the regions of Inner Space; and increasingly I believe that we will encounter in film and literature scenes which are neither solely realistic nor fantastic. In a sense, it will be a movement in the interzone between both spheres.”
- “A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status — all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).”
- “Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.”
- “I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again … the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.”
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Encyclopedic overview
James Graham Ballard (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009) was an English novelist and short-story writer, satirist and essayist known for psychologically provocative works of fiction that explore the relations between human psychology, technology, sex and mass media. Ballard first became associated with New Wave science fiction for post-apocalyptic novels such as The Drowned World (1962). He later courted controversy with the short-story collection The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), which includes the 1968 story "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan", and later the novel Crash (1973), a story about car-crash fetishists.
In 1984, Ballard won broad critical recognition for the war novel Empire of the Sun, a semi-autobiographical story of the experiences of a British boy during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. Three years later, the American film director Steven Spielberg adapted the novel into a film of the same name. The novelist's journey from youth to mid-age is chronicled, with fictional inflections, in The Kindness of Women (1991), and in the autobiography Miracles of Life (2008). Some of Ballard's early novels have been adapted as films, including Crash (1996), directed by David Cronenberg, and High-Rise (2015), an adaptation of the 1975 novel directed by Ben Wheatley.
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