J. G. Ballard
British novelist (1930-2009) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 78
James Graham Ballard 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.
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Val Guest Directed When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970)
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Harley Cokeliss Directed Crash! (1971)
Aryan Kaganof Directed Ten Monologues from the Lives of the Serial Killers (1994)
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Robert Lantos Produced Crash (1996)
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Ballard's Vermilion Sands story "The Singing Statues" took the cover of the July 1962 issue of Fantastic, featuring artwork by Ed Emshwiller.
Another Emshwiller cover illustrating the Vermilion Sands story "The Screen Game" (1963)
Ballard's novelette "The Time Tombs" was the cover story on the March 1963 issue of If.
Ballard's grave in Kensal Green CemeteryAwards
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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.
