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...
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J.G. Ballard is more than just a science fiction or futurist fantasy merchant; he is one of the most significant of those British novelists who have established themselves since 1960.Ballard is an amb...
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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 ...
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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 respectabili...
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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 cha...
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Critical Essay by Malcolm Bradbury
[More and more J. G. Ballard] looks like a leading figure in a very rich and developing field. His earlier work was usually cast as science fiction, but he has long ...
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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. Althoug...
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In the following review, Priest offers praise for The Day of Creation.
One of the familiar smaller pleasures of a J. G. Ballard novel is the way in which the chapters are named, a surreal blend of fan...
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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...
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In the following review of Iain Sinclair's Crash: David Cronenberg's Post-Mortem on J. G. Ballard's “Trajectory of Fate,” Gray discusses Ballard's literary si...
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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 ...
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In the following essay, Wagar discerns underlying elements of idealism and a longing for psychic transformation and transcendence in Ballard's fiction. According to Wagar, Ballard's work...
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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...
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In the following essay, Brigg analyzes Ballard's expressive and intensely symbolic writing style in his short stories.
The planes of their lives interlocked at oblique angles, fragments of pers...
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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 mis...
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In the following two-part essay, Schuyler attempts to amend David Pringle's pioneering study of Jungian psychological symbols used commonly by Ballard.
Just as the present holds perils that you...
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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 glorifie...
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In the following essay, Luckhurst discusses both the modernist and postmodernist characteristics of Ballard's work.
How is one to approach this object, this text or texts? The fifteen sections ...
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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 co...
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In the following essay, Brigg surveys the “antecedents” or influences and stylistic forms of Ballard's early short fiction.
From 1956 to 1969, Ballard published over eighty short ...
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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 fragmen...
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In the following essay, Carr emphasizes the role of the body and the notion of inner space, among other themes, in Ballard's work.
Out there cruising in the endless suburb is a man who could ne...
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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 [essa...
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In the following essay, Stephenson delineates how Ballard consistently subverts basic assumptions about the nature of reality and identity in his fiction, and provides an overview of Ballard's ...
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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 appeare...
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J. G. Ballard
J(ames) G(raham) Ballard
