RIP: JG Ballard
From a BBC piece on JG Ballard’s death Sunday:
Hephzibah Anderson, former fiction editor at the Daily Mail and books columnist for the Observer, said Ballard’s work had anticipated life as it was now.
“If you look at the start of his career, he began writing science fiction stories and we was regarded as very avant garde.
“And there was a kind of violence lurking beneath the texture of these novels. And they’ve come to seem less and less futuristic and you know it’s as if we’re embodying, we’re living in now a kind of Ballardian world.”
[ via Ballardian ]
