SOURCE: “J. G. Ballard: Time out of Mind,” in Extrapolation, Vol. 35, No. 1, Spring, 1994, pp. 43–59.
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 contends that these works exemplify Ballard's conception of time as a subjective, man-made perception of the external world—rather than an absolute measure of reality—in which his characters explore the inner space between universal and personal time.
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