J. G. Ballard is perhaps the most important figure to emerge from the British New Wave of science-fiction writers, whose works brought a new degree of literary sophistication and critical respectability to the genre beginning in the late 1950s. To an ext...

J. G. Ballard is one of the most significant of those British novelists who have established themselves since 1960. Although he established his literary reputation as a science-fiction writer, he has come to believe that the present, rather than the futu...

J. G. Ballard is "perhaps the most important figure to emerge from the British New Wave of science-fiction writers, whose works brought a new degree of literary sophistication and critical respectability to the genre beginning in the late 1950s," accordi...

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Tom Phillips based his 'A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel' on W.H. Mallock's 1892 novel 'A Human Document.' Phillips chose verses from the book which are, at turns, proverbial, erotic, surreal, witless and prophetic. The attraction of his work, however, lies in the design...

In the following excerpt, Luckhurst compares Ballard's short fiction with the novels Crash and Hello America.

In the following essay, Ruddick examines Jean Baudrillard's commentary on Crash—which Ruddick contends is a misreading of Ballard's work—and Ballard's misdirected attack on postmodern criticism in response to Baudrillard's essay.