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JG Ballard wrote a 180 short story about Jinxian plots (link)
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Date: August 18th, 2024 7:57 AM Author: Drab Trip Pit Brethren https://metaphorbymetaphor.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ewriting_ballard_index.pdf
Probably my favorite Ballard story right now, and that's saying something |
Date: August 18th, 2024 10:06 AM Author: obsidian titillating selfie 180 story (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2/en-en/#47978585) |
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Date: August 18th, 2024 10:50 AM Author: Drab Trip Pit Brethren I think Ballard’s stuff works because beneath all the chilly prose and pretentious formal experiments and deliberately bizarre/transgressive fixations he has a playful sense of humor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2/en-en/#47978687) |
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Date: August 18th, 2024 10:07 AM Author: Pontificating Temple Pisswyrm Ballard is 180, but I haven't read enough. Are there others you guys can recommend? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2/en-en/#47978589) |
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Date: August 18th, 2024 10:48 AM Author: Drab Trip Pit Brethren Crash and High Rise are both good; so is Millennium People (about UMC terrorists)
Atrocity Exhibition is good for a semi connected series of short stories about the usual Ballard fascinations (the space program, JFK, Elizabeth Taylor, car crashes, weapons, aviation, sex)
I haven’t read much of his earlier more “straight” science fiction books(which even so are relatively experimental) but I should. I should also read Empire of the Sun which isn’t science fiction at all but based on his own childhood in Japanese internment. Good movie. |
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Date: August 18th, 2024 10:54 AM Author: obsidian titillating selfie you should read Memories of the Space Age, preferably the Arkham House edition if you can find it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2/en-en/#47978695) |
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Date: August 18th, 2024 10:59 AM Author: Drab Trip Pit Brethren Didn’t realize they put out any of his stuff
I’ve got the complete short stories of JG Ballard but never actually read much of it but I’ve been reading around in it the last few days |
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Date: August 18th, 2024 6:16 PM Author: obsidian titillating selfie you have all the stories in that collection but you won't get the cool pictures in the AH edition. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2/en-en/#47979921) |
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Date: August 18th, 2024 6:17 PM Author: Drab Trip Pit Brethren i'll try to track it down, then! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2/en-en/#47979925) |
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Date: August 18th, 2024 3:09 PM Author: Pontificating Temple Pisswyrm ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2/en-en/#47979401) |
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Date: August 18th, 2024 3:08 PM Author: Pontificating Temple Pisswyrm ty! I've read and enjoyed Crash and Atrocity Exhibition; will check out the rest (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2/en-en/#47979400) |
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Date: August 18th, 2024 10:53 AM Author: Drab Trip Pit Brethren If you liked this I’d also highly recommend Bolano’s Nazi Literature of the Americas, which is a satirical/subversive alternate history of politics in the Americas and loaded with historical/literary jokes allusions. I know very little about South American politics other than the broad strokes so it was probably lost on me but even so it’s a good time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2/en-en/#47978691) |
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Date: August 18th, 2024 2:13 PM Author: obsidian titillating selfie I assume you've read Borges, but if not go ahead. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2/en-en/#47979276) |
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Date: August 18th, 2024 3:10 PM Author: Pontificating Temple Pisswyrm ty! yes, I love JL Borges. I feel like he wrote for me personally. Have even read a lot of his nonfiction essays and enjoyed those too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2/en-en/#47979407) |
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Date: August 18th, 2024 3:11 PM Author: Drab Trip Pit Brethren "I feel like he wrote for me personally"
that's how I feel about Ballard and a couple others
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Date: August 18th, 2024 6:18 PM Author: Pontificating Temple Pisswyrm 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2/en-en/#47979929) |
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Date: August 18th, 2024 7:14 PM Author: ruby black woman tank (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2/en-en/#47980116) |
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Date: August 18th, 2024 6:21 PM Author: Drab Trip Pit Brethren Also Cortazar
A more horror-oriented Ballardian writer was physician Michael Blumlein. His collection "The Brains of Rats" is a really good bit of early 90s 'New Horror' (sort of how Ballard was part of the genre-expanding 'New Wave SF' in the 1960s). It isn't just horror, though--there's elements of science fiction and fantasy as well. If nothing else, it has the controversial and very Ballardian classic "Tissue Ablation and Variant Regeneration: A Case Report" (I previously reproduced it in its entirety at the link below, although the formatting is a bit wonky).
https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5297494&mc=5&forum_id=2 |
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Date: April 17th, 2026 3:41 AM Author: Beady-eyed factory reset button (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2/en-en/#49822916) |