To price the release of a film version of High Rise,our focus this time will be on the prolific master of uneasy speculative fiction. Please share suggestions for the best novel to selectJG Ballard needs petite introduction. He’s so necessary and influential, he even has his own adjective: Ballardian. Collins online dictionary defines this word as “resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in JG Ballard’s novels and stories, and especially dystopian modernity,bleak artifical landscapes and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments”. Wiktionary also gives this lovely usage: “The desolate character of this once-thriving industrial district takes on a Ballardian pall in the noonday sun.”Enjoyable as these definitions may be, or they should also be taken with caution. No one word can really describe Ballard’s opus – not even his surname. His work was immensely varied and rich in ideas,characters and settings. Early, apocalyptic Ballard is very different to late, and dystopian Ballard. Empire of the Sun is unlike them all again and,oh boy, then there’s Crash.
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Source: theguardian.com