J. G. Ballard Summary

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 respectabil... Read more

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 ... Read more

Critical Essay by Michael Wood There was a time, some ten or fifteen years ago, when the notion of "inner space," usually associated with the writings of J. G. Ballard, threatened to ch... Read more

Critical Essay by David Pringle "The Violent Noon" [Ballard's first published story] is a story about terrorism and military reprisals, set in Malaya during the Emergency. Althou... Read more

In the following essay, Brigg examines Ballard's preoccupation with time in “The Voices of Time,” The Crystal World, Hello America, and “News from the Sun.” Brigg co... Read more

In the following interview, Ballard discusses the negative impact of technology, violence, and mass culture in Western society; comments on science fiction, literary realism, and his own writing; and ... Read more

In the following essay, Foster, an associate professor of English at Southern Methodist University, contends that Ballard's presentation of extreme perversity and violence—particularly a... Read more

In the following essay, Stephenson analyzes Ballard's thematic employment of illusion. A dominant theme in Ballard's short fiction of the period 1966 to 1989 is that of illusion: the ... Read more

In the following essay, Brigg perceives Ballard's treatment of time and reality as entities apprehended subjectively by the individual. … instead of treating time like a sort of glori... Read more

In the following essay, Luckhurst explores stylistic and thematic aspects of Ballard's writing. This book [‘The Angle Between Two Walls’: The Fiction of J. G. Ballard] has been... Read more

In the following essay, Brigg discusses “the obsessive quality” of Ballard's later short stories. Ballard's recent short fiction consists of twenty-five stories and frag... Read more

In the following essay, Finkelstein compares the ethos which animates the science fiction works of J. G. Ballard and Robert Smithson to that which inspires modern and postmodern art. The present [e... Read more

In the following essay, Stephenson scrutinizes the metaphysical themes of Ballard's early short stories. J. G. Ballard's first published story, “The Violent Noon,”1 appe... Read more