J. G. Ballard Quotes


I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.


Citations

Ballard, J. G. Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with J. G. Ballard 1967-2008. Edited by Simon Sellars and Dan O'Hara, Fourth Estate, 2012.

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J. G. Ballard
J. G. Ballard
  • Born: November 15, 1930
  • Died: April 19, 2009
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Novelist, Satirist, Short Story Writer, Essayist

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.