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A User's Guide to the Millennium

Essays and Reviews

A User's Guide to the Millennium( )
Author: Ballard, J. G.
ISBN:978-0-312-14440-1
Publication Date:Apr 1996
Publisher:Picador
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $23.00
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"Collected for the first time, these are the nonfiction writings of one of this century's most important voices. Among Ballard's subjects are Dali and de Sade, Marilyn Monroe and Nancy Reagan, atom bombs and highways, sex and science fiction." "The pieces - more than ninety in all, written between 1963 and 1995 - exhibit the same sharp vision and sharper prose that has distinguished all of Ballard's fiction. His fascination for and fixation upon this century take him from William...
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Book Details
Pages:288
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Future Studies
Literary Collections / Essays
Book Weight:10.13 Pounds
Author Biography
Ballard, J. G. (Author)
J. G. Ballard was born to British parents in Shanghai, China on November 15, 1930. While a child during World War II, he spent four years in a Japanese POW camp. This experience was the basis for the emotionally moving novel Empire of the Sun, which he adapted into a successful movie, directed by Steven Spielberg. Before becoming a full-time writer, he studied medicine at Cambridge University and served as a pilot in the British Royal Air Force.

Ballard is best known for his science fiction writings. His early works were heavily influenced by surrealism. Most of his novels deal with death and destruction of the human spirit. Novels such as Crash, Concrete Island, and High Rise portray a society that is devolving into barbaric chaos. Crash was made into a movie by David Cronenberg in 1996. The Drowned World describes an apocalyptic society, with a hero that ushers in the destruction of the world. His novel Empire of the Sun was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Empire of the Sun was filmed by Steven Spielberg in 1987, starring a young Christian Bale as Jim (Ballard). Ballard moved away from science fiction, but he is still considered one of the leading authors of the genre. He died on April 19, 2009 at the age of 78.

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