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I am much closer to the Surrealists, in that I employ a traditional narrative space, in whose illusions I completely believe, while at the same time stretching the imaginative demands made on the reader by an extreme subject matter.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It isn't often that one reads a book and is convinced that it's an instant classic, but I'm sure that lain Sinclair's London Orbital will be read 50 years from now.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Contrary to general belief, no one's death diminishes us.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The story (which the literary novel has neglected, to its cost) is everything.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They've witnessed the evolution of an adult human being from nothing.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sheppard gazed for hours through his stop-frame focus, as if he would find among these images an anatomical door, one of the keys in a combination whose other tumblers were the Marey chronograms, the Surrealist paintings and the drained swimming pool in the ever-brighter sunlight outside.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On that border zone, you're neither one nor the other, you're both.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The artists sculpting their clouds, etc.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When the most famous lamb in history emerged into the world in 1996, she brought with her a host of ethical and scientific dilemmas.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And it inspired at least one great work of literature -- Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

He merely readjusts reality to suit himself.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I had an opening party to which I invited a large number of art critics and members of the demimonde.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My stories, in the sense of the narrative sequence of events,

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One should face up to the realities of human nature.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

People were breaking the bottles of red wine over the cars, smashing the glasses, grabbing the topless girl and dragging her into the back of one of the cars.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Celebrity and the media presence of the artists today are inextricably linked with their work.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We have to make sure that our supplies of vaccine are up-to-date.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In the camp, we weren't certain that the war had ended.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In this country the coffin lid is not open; death is factored out of our lives.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I've always operated on the fringe -- a complete maverick.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A devotion to physical perfection ruled their lives more strictly than any industrial taskmaster.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Most of us would take the view that violence is wholly bad in all its forms -- I would myself -- but it may be that certain kinds of violence, particularly those transmitted through the communications media, through television and the news magazines, and so on, have a beneficial role.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's the Stockholm Syndrome in a kind of way: you begin to love your captors because they represent security.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Martin Bax, sends me a lot of similar material.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

After all, the response to light is a response to all the possibilities of life itself.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

They simply make contact via TV; marriage is conducted hundreds of miles apart.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I learned the importance of sheer story-telling, a quality which was about to leave the serious English novel.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One problem I have noticed with Hollywood films is that producers, who rarely read the books they purchase, now no longer bother to read the screenplays they commission.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The boat drifts through a cloud of radioactive crop chemicals, and this sets up processes in the man's body that begin to make him shrink.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The realm that Newton creates for us has the calm light of a lucid dream, glimpsed through a connecting door that links it to the interior space of the Surrealists, to Last Year at Marienbad (1961), and the films of Luis Bunuel.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Everyone is a victim these days -- of parents, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, even love itself.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

More than half a century of heavy drug use failed to dim either his remarkably sharp mind or his dryly cackling humour.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

These days one needed a full-scale emergency kit built into one's brain, plus a crash course in disaster survival, real and imagined.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

But perhaps the story also illustrates the paradox that the only real freedom is to be found in a prison.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The processes of 20th century technology are continually laying down their own simultaneous fossils, that form ciphers in our minds like the invisible stars of radio galaxies.

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026