RIP J.G. Ballard
Crap crap crap crap. J.G. Ballard is dead. What a great writer. I especially loved the short stories, especially the ones that totally rewired your brain, made you see space and time differently. Crap.
UPDATE: My Omnivoracious appreciation.
13 comments on “RIP J.G. Ballard”
Damn.
Wish it wasn’t true. I got the news via text message from a friend, who I assumed had gotten it from the wire services. But it seems it probably came via a friend of the Ballards on facebook and then the news spread. I sure do wish it wasn’t true.
I still can’t find any news stories reporting it.
Horrible news though. :(
The source is unimpeachable, unfortunately.
@Aishwarya : I couldn’t either, but I’ve been pointed at the Beeb since.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8007331.stm
One of the few science fiction writers who did actually predict the future in a meaningful way.
This is really very sad news. Drat.
I went out for a walk; my father told me when I got home. His memory for the strangest of blessings.
Very sad news, indeed. I’ve only read a collection of his early short stories, but I think I’m going to be placing an order shortly for some of his other works.
As we say here in Brazil, CARALHO! (“Fuck me!”, in a non-literal translation). I was in Rio visiting my parents and didn´t enter the Web. Brazilian TV just “broke” the news a couple of hours ago, and they mispronounced his name (they said Ballárd, as if he were French! couldelamerde, as the Merovingian (or maybe Ballard himself) would say.
Yes, I´m pissed off. He was one of the greatest to me.
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