Blogs about: J G Ballard
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Straight out of a J G Ballard story
New Scientist reports: Voices of long-dead stars haunt the galaxy… more →
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Into the Flood
Carlos Detres wrote 3 days ago: October proved to be a successful month for The Whiskey Dregs. It was a great pleasure editing the p … more →
J.G.Ballard: The Bard of Shepperton
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Kate Webb wrote 1 week ago: On Sunday there was a gathering of J.G. Ballad’s family, friends and admirers at the Tate Modern. We … more →
J.G. Ballard
Taylor Bright wrote 1 week ago: Think of these next two posts as pull-out quotes. Will Self has a brief bit on J.G. “Jim … more →
The Ethics of Scarcity: On John Gray and J. G. Ballard
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pypaik wrote 3 weeks ago: Writing in 1907, on the eve of the immense carnage that would sweep away the longstanding regimes an … more →
Recording of my talk on ethics and scarcity
pypaik wrote 3 weeks ago: Here is link to the mp3 file of the talk I gave on October 23 at the UWM Center for International Ed … more →
Straight out of a J G Ballard story
farfuture wrote 3 weeks ago: New Scientist reports: Voices of long-dead stars haunt the galaxy … more →
Ballard: The complete short stories
farfuture wrote 3 weeks ago: I’m currently nearing the end of volume one of the complete short stories of J G Ballard. It … more →
Noise Jar
extrasimile wrote 1 month ago: 1 There is much death in the water: The wax figures are drifting near the beach, Jellyfish-like, chr … more →
Edmund Crispin - Best Tales of Terror
demonik wrote 1 month ago: Edmund Crispin [Robert Bruce Montgomery] – Best Tales of Terror (Faber and Faber, 1962) Edmund … more →
Tales from WW2 – The Asia-Pacific arena - Part 3
cathedralist wrote 1 month ago: The story with a WW2 twist that I recounted in my previous two posts got me reminiscing about a few … more →
'Ballardian'
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thedervish wrote 1 month ago: Mike Thompson has designed a lamp that is powered by human blood. There’s something deeply str … more →
Seven Horror Novels Masquerading In Other Genres
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Biblioklept wrote 1 month ago: We often identify genre simply by its conventions and tropes, and, when October rolls round and we w … more →
Book Review: "Super-Cannes" by J.G.Ballard
snoutling wrote 1 month ago: It is difficult to write a review of a book that you cannot make total sense of, but I will do my be … more →
David Foster Wallace Book Reviews (1990-2004)
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Paul wrote 1 month ago: SOUNDTRACK: THE SMITHS-Whistle Test on the Road - Live at Derby Assembly Rooms, 9 December 1983. (VH … more →
21. Audible suffering.
micahbucey wrote 1 month ago: Story read: Track 12, J.G. Ballard (from The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard, 2009; 4 pages; finish … more →
Adjectives
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fictionadvocate wrote 1 month ago: The Rumpus and Jonathan Lethem have recently drawn attention to the adjective “Ballardian,” as in, r … more →
What I Believe
cactusflower wrote 2 months ago: “I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us … more →
This Isn't the Thursday You Were Looking For
Steven Harris wrote 2 months ago: Today I ought to have been attending a conference at Exeter University, a day long exploration of … more →
I read "The Outsider" by Albert Camus
reidmccarter wrote 2 months ago: “Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don’t know. I had a telegram from the home: … more →
