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Informationen zum Autor James Graham “J.G.” Ballard (1930-2009) was a British author and journalist. Best known for his dystopic works of science fiction, his novels include Crash (1973) and High-Rise (1975). His semi-autobiographicalnovel Empire of the Sun (1984) was adapted by Stephen Spielberg in the 1987 film of the same name. Luminous, wry, and arresting, Ballard’s writing endures as a touchstone for popular conceptions of post-apocalyptic landscapes, mass media, and emergent technologies. Mark Blacklock is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of the cultural history The Emergence of the Fourth Dimensio n, and his most recent novel Hinton was longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in 2021. Klappentext "The non-fiction of J. G. Ballard: statements, essays, articles, commentaries, lists, reviews, tributes, and more"-- Zusammenfassung J. G. Ballard's collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation. J. G. Ballard was a colossal figure in English literature and an imaginative force of the twentieth century. Alongside seminal novels—from the notorious Crash (1973) to the semi-autobiographical Empire of the Sun (1984)—Ballard was a sought-after reviewer and commentator, publishing journalism, memoir, and cultural criticism in a variety of forms. This volume collects the most significant short nonfiction of Ballard's fifty-year career, extending the range of the only previous collection of his nonfiction, A User's Guide to the Millennium (1996), which selected essays and reviews published between 1962 and 1995. A decade on from Ballard's death in 2009, a new generation of readers needs a new collection. In the period following A User's Guide , Ballard's writing addressed 9/11, British politics from New Labour onward, and what he termed “the rise of soft fascism”—a diagnosis that maintains its relevance amid a shift toward right populism in European and US politics. Beautifully edited by Ballard scholar and novelist Mark Blacklock, this volume includes Ballard's editorials and manifestos; commentaries on his own work; commentaries on the work of others; reviews; and more. Above all, it makes the case for the currency of Ballard's work at a contemporary juncture at which so many of his diagnoses concerning the media and politics have become apparent. Inhaltsverzeichnis FOREWORD BY TOM MCCARTHY xi INTRODUCTION xv NOTES ON THE EDITION xxxi 1 STATEMENTS 1 Which Way to Inner Space? (1962) 3 Notes from Nowhere (1966) 7 Introduction to the French Edition of Crash! (1974/1975) 10 What I Believe (1984) 15 2 NEW WORLDS 19 Myth Maker of the 20th Century (1964) 23 La Jetée, Academy One (1966) 28 The Coming of the Unconscious (1966) 30 The Thousand Wounds and Flowers (1969) 35 Salvador Dali: The Innocent as Paranoid (1969) 38 Use Your Vagina (1969) 46 Alphabets of Unreason (1969) 50 3 COMMENTARIES 55 On Own Work: Novels 56 The Drowned World (1963) 57 The Atrocity Exhibition (1969) 59 Concrete Island (1994) 60 Hello America (1994) 62 On Own Work: Stories and Collections 64 “Storm- Wind” (1961) 65 “You and Me and the Continuum” (1966) 65 “End- Game” (1968) 66 Vermilion Sands (1973/1992) 68 The Best Science Fiction of J. G. Ballard (1977) 70 Le livre d’or de la science- fiction: J. G. Ballard (1980) 76 Myths of the Near Future (1982) 78 “Report on an Unidentified Space Station” (1985) 80 J. G. Ballard: The Complete Short Stories (2001) 80 On Work of Others: Literature 82 “Cataclysms and Dooms” in The Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1977) 83 Graham Greene (1978) 84
