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April 20, 2009
JG Ballard Dies
The Science Fiction author JG Ballard has died at the age of 78.
I’ve read a couple of his books: Cocaine Nights and recently The Drowned World. Both of which I can best describe as atmospheric and odd.
He was a primary figure in the New Wave movement which dared to take Science Fiction in both a literary and experimental direction.
Via Boing Boing
Man, when I heard this over breakfast I felt like I'd been punched in the chest. Totally taken aback. He was one of my all-time favorite writers - not just of SF - one of my all-time favorite writers, period.
Wrote up my thoughts on it for my site, if you're at all interested.
http://www.republibot.com/content/breaking-news-jg-ballard-has-died-1930-2009
That's a good obituary. I agree he was a great writer. I definitely need to read more of his stuff.
Thanks. I appreciate that. He was one of those writers that challenged me just as I was starting to get bored with SF, and is largely responsible for me continuing to like the genre.