J. G. Ballard Quotes
I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
Ballard, J. G. Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with J. G. Ballard 1967-2008. Edited by Simon Sellars and Dan O'Hara, Fourth Estate, 2012.
James Graham Ballard was an English novelist, short story writer, satirist, and essayist who first became associated with the New Wave of science fiction for his post-apocalyptic novels such as The Drowned World (1962). In the late 1960s, he produced a variety of experimental short stories (or "condensed novels"), such as those collected in the controversial The Atrocity Exhibition (1970). In the mid 1970s, Ballard published several novels, among them the highly controversial Crash (1973), a story about symphorophilia and car crash fetishism, and High-Rise (1975), a depiction of a luxury apartment building's descent into violent chaos.