J.G. Ballard è stato un autore inglese altamente stimato, noto per i suoi lavori in entrambe la fiction e la non-fiction. Nato a Shanghai, in Cina, nel 1930, Ballard ha vissuto il bombardamento di Pearl Harbor durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale, un evento che avrebbe in seguito influenzato la sua scrittura. Dopo aver trascorso del tempo in un campo di prigionia per civili, lui e la sua famiglia si trasferirono in Inghilterra nel 1946. Ballard ha studiato medicina a Cambridge per due anni prima di intraprendere una carriera come copywriter, e in seguito ha lavorato come magazziniere a Covent Garden. La sua scrittura è caratterizzata da uno stile diretto, ma spesso contiene storie insolite e uniche.
La carriera di Ballard come autore è iniziata sul serio con la pubblicazione della sua prima storia breve nel 1956, e avrebbe continuato a scrivere più di 100 libri nel corso della sua vita. All'inizio della sua carriera, Ballard era associato al Nuovo Movimento di science fiction, con romanzi apocalittici come "The Drowned World" (1962), "The Burning World" (1964), e "The Crystal World" (1966). Negli anni '60 e '70, Ballard ha spostato il suo focus su lavori più brevi e sperimentali, come "The Atrocity Exhibition" (1970), che ha attratto paragoni con il lavoro di scrittori postmodernisti come William S. Burroughs.
Il lavoro più notevole di Ballard è probabilmente il suo romanzo di guerra relativamente convenzionale, "Empire of the Sun" (1984), un resoconto semi-autobiografico delle esperienze di un ragazzo a Shanghai durante la Seconda Guerra Sino-Giapponese. Il romanzo è stato adattato in un film omonimo da Steven Spielberg nel 1987. La scrittura di Ballard è nota per la sua distintività, e ha dato origine al termine "Ballardian," definito dal Collins English Dictionary come "res resemblant o suggestive delle condizioni descritte nei romanzi e storie di J.G. Ballard, specialmente modernità distopica, paesaggi urbani e psicologici effetti di sviluppi tecnologici, sociali o ambientali." Il Oxford Dictionary of National Biography descrive il lavoro di Ballard come occupato con "eros, thanatos, mass media e tecnologie emergenti".
Empire Of The Sun Books
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Empire of the Sun
1984
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The Kindness of Women
1991
Romanzi singoli
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The Wind from Nowhere
1962
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The Drowned World
1962
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The Drought
1964
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The Crystal World
1966
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Love and Napalm
1970
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Crash
1973
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Concrete Island
1974
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High-Rise
1975
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The Unlimited Dream Company
1979
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Hello America
1981
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The Day of Creation
1987
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Running Wild
1988
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Rushing to Paradise
1994
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Cocaine Nights
1996
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Super-Cannes
2000
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Millennium People
2003
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Kingdom Come
2006
Racconti brevi/Novelle
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The Subliminal Man
1963
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Chronopolis
1971
Collezioni
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Billenium
1962
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The Voices of Time
1962
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Passport To Eternity
1963
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The Terminal Beach
1964
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The Day of Forever
1967
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The Disaster Area
1967
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The Atrocity Exhibition
1970
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Vermilion Sands
1971
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Chronopolis and Other Stories
1971
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Low Flying Aircraft and Other Stories
1976
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The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard
1978
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The Venus Hunters / The Overloaded Man
1980
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Myths of the Near Future
1982
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War Fever and Other Stories
1990
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The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard
2001
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The Complete Short Stories: Volume 2
2006
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The Complete Short Stories, Volume 1
2006
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The Best Science Fiction of J. G. Ballard
2009
Libri di non-fiction
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A User's Guide to the Millennium
1996
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Quotes
2004
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J.G. Ballard Conversations
2005
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Miracles of Life
2008
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Extreme Metaphors
2012
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Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007
2023
Mondo Books
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Mondo Barbie
1993
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Mondo Elvis
1994
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Mondo Marilyn
1995
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Mondo James Dean
1996
Mondo Books (with Howard Waldrop, with Lewis Shiner, with John Varley, with Jack C. Haldeman II, with Bentley Little, with Michael Hemmingson, with Lynne Barrett, with Clive Barker, with Doris Grumbach, with Julia Alvarez, with Cornelius Eady, with Beth Meacham, with Philip Levine, with Chuck Taylor, with Lynne Tillman, with Charles Bukowski, with Michael Martone, with A.M. Homes, with David Trinidad, with Sandra Cisneros, with Marge Piercy, with Gary Soto, with Tom Whalen, with Roberta Allen, with Sharon Olds, with Alice McDermott, with Mark Childress, with Susie Mee, with Nick Cave, with Hilary Tham, with Leslie Pietrzyk, with Lyn Lifshin, with Nanci Griffith, with Mark Winegardner, with Louisa Ermelino, with Rafael Alvarez, with Greil Marcus, with Pagan Kennedy, with Terence Winch, with Rebecca Brown, with Denise Duhamel, with Robert Peters, with Lucinda Ebersole, with Richard Peabody, with Jeanne Beaumont, with Lynne McMahon, with Kathryn Harrison, with Patricia Storace, with Richard Grayson, with Leslie Shiel, with Laura Costas, with Sharon Henry, with Cookie Lupton, with Lisa B. Herskovits, with Belinda Subraman, with Ellie Schoenfeld, with Sparrow ., with Gregg Shapiro, with Cathryn Hankla, with Wayne E. Kline, with Jose Padua, with Jeff Weddle, with Judy Grahn, with Samuel Charters, with Rachel Salazar, with Eleanor Earle Crockett, with Diane Wakoski, with Judy Vernon, with David Wojahn, with William McCranor Henderson, with Janice Eidus, with Elizabeth Ash Vélez, with Laura Kalpakian, with Eri Makino, with Ai, with Michael Wilkerson, with Brian Gilmore, with Sam Toperoff, with Julia P. Dubner, with Bill Morris, with John Rechy, with L.A. Lantz, with Phyllis Burke, with Hillary Johnson, with Rita Valencia, with Michael Lally, with Eleanor E. Crocket, with Taylor Mead, with Susan Compo, with Rosanne Daryl Thomas, with Tino Villanueva, with Edwin Corley, with Robert Ready, with Reuben Jackson, with Stephanie Hart, with D.E. Steward, with David Plumb, with Ed Graczyk, with Hilary Howard, with James Finney Boylan, with Miranda Schwartz)
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Mondo Barbie (By: John Varley, Lynne Barrett, Julia Alvarez, Philip Levine, A.M. Homes, David Trinidad, Sandra Cisneros, Marge Piercy, Gary Soto, Roberta Allen, Alice McDermott, Hilary Tham, Lyn Lifshin, Rebecca Brown, Denise Duhamel, Lucinda Ebersole, Richard Peabody, Jeanne Beaumont, Lynne McMahon, Kathryn Harrison, Patricia Storace, Richard Grayson, Leslie Shiel, Laura Costas, Sharon Henry, Cookie Lupton, Lisa B. Herskovits, Belinda Subraman, Ellie Schoenfeld, Sparrow ., Gregg Shapiro, Cathryn Hankla, Wayne E. Kline, Jose Padua, Jeff Weddle)
1993
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Mondo Elvis (By: Howard Waldrop, Cornelius Eady, Mark Childress, Susie Mee, Nick Cave, Mark Winegardner, Rafael Alvarez, Greil Marcus, Pagan Kennedy, Lucinda Ebersole, Richard Peabody, Lynne McMahon, Cathryn Hankla, Samuel Charters, Rachel Salazar, Eleanor Earle Crockett, Diane Wakoski, Judy Vernon, David Wojahn, William McCranor Henderson, Janice Eidus, Elizabeth Ash Vélez, Laura Kalpakian, Eri Makino, Ai, Michael Wilkerson, Brian Gilmore)
1994
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Mondo Marilyn (With: Michael Hemmingson, Clive Barker, Doris Grumbach, Beth Meacham, Lynne Tillman, Charles Bukowski, David Trinidad, Tom Whalen, Sharon Olds, Leslie Pietrzyk, Lyn Lifshin, Nanci Griffith, Robert Peters, Lucinda Ebersole, Richard Peabody, Jeanne Beaumont, Gregg Shapiro, Judy Grahn, Sam Toperoff, Julia P. Dubner, Bill Morris, John Rechy, L.A. Lantz, Phyllis Burke, Hillary Johnson, Rita Valencia, Michael Lally, Eleanor E. Crocket, Taylor Mead, Susan Compo, Rosanne Daryl Thomas)
1995
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Mondo James Dean (By: Lewis Shiner, Jack C. Haldeman II, Bentley Little, Michael Hemmingson, Chuck Taylor, Michael Martone, Louisa Ermelino, Terence Winch, Lucinda Ebersole, Richard Peabody, Sparrow ., Janice Eidus, Ai, Tino Villanueva, Edwin Corley, Robert Ready, Reuben Jackson, Stephanie Hart, D.E. Steward, David Plumb, Ed Graczyk, Hilary Howard, James Finney Boylan, Miranda Schwartz)
1996
J.G. Ballard Anthologies
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Connoisseur's Science Fiction
1964
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Dangerous Visions
1967
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Dangerous Visions 3
1967
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The Inner Landscape
1969
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Mind At Bay
1969
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The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3
1970
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Best From Fantasy And Science Fiction: 18th Series
1973
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow...
1974
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Star Book of Horror No. 1
1975
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Beyond Tomorrow
1976
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The Best of British SF 2
1977
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Nebula Award Stories 3
1983
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Firebird 3: Writing Today
1984
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Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction
1985
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The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories
1987
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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1989
1989
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Mississippi Review 47 / 48
1988
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Great Flying Stories
1991
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Semiotext SF
1991
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Storming the Reality Studio
1991
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Mondo Barbie
1993
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Mondo Elvis
1994
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The Starry Wisdom: A Tribute to H.P. Lovecraft
1994
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Mondo Marilyn
1995
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Mondo James Dean
1996
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Bangs & Whimpers
1999
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Bangs & Whimpers: Stories about The End of The World
1999
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The Campfire Collection
2005
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The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction
2010
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Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts