{"product_id":"jg-ballard-quotes-9781889307121","title":"J.G. Ballard: Quotes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Shanghai November 15, 1930, \u003cb\u003eJames Graham Ballard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003espent several formative years in a Japanese concentration camp before settling\u003cbr\u003ein England in 1946. After RAF flight training and medical studies with the aim\u003cbr\u003eof becoming a psychoanalyst, Ballard concentrated on inventing the genre of\u003cbr\u003eSpeculative Fiction, charting the myths and psychopathologies of the near\u003cbr\u003efuture. His autobiographical novel \u003ci\u003eEmpire of the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e was made into a\u003cbr\u003efeature film by Steven Spielberg; David Cronenberg filmed his techno-noir-sex\u003cbr\u003eclassic \u003ci\u003eCRASH\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo date Ballard has written 17 prophetic\/poetic novels; in\u003cbr\u003ehis newest, \u003ci\u003eMillennium People\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), random acts of terrorism\u003cbr\u003edynamically unsettle London, England. \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Short Stories of J.G.\u003cbr\u003eBallard, \u003c\/i\u003e recently released, is almost 1200 pages and an instant classic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJ.G. Ballard has been featured in \u003ci\u003eSearch\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp; Destroy #10, \u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eRE\/Search #1-2-3\u003c\/i\u003e tabloids, \u003ci\u003eRE\/Search #8\/9: \u003cbr\u003eJ.G. Ballard, \u003c\/i\u003e and the RE\/Search illustrated edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Atrocity\u003cbr\u003eExhibition.\u003c\/i\u003e RE\/Search is proud to have published \u003ci\u003eJ.G. BALLARD QUOTES;\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand \u003ci\u003eJ.G. BALLARD CONVERSATIONS, \u003c\/i\u003e featuring interviews conducted by MARK\u003cbr\u003ePAULINE (Survival Research Laboratories) and GRAEME REVELL (SPK; composer). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Shanghai November 15, 1930, James Graham Ballard\u003cbr\u003espent the first 15 years of his life in China. Interned in a Japanese camp\u003cbr\u003eduring World War II, he was repatriated to England at the age of sixteen. After\u003cbr\u003estudying medicine at Cambridge, he sold his first \"speculative fiction\" story\u003cbr\u003eto \u003ci\u003eNew Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e in 1956 and began writing a series of planetary disaster\u003cbr\u003enovels, ultimately focusing on the \u003ci\u003einner\u003c\/i\u003e landscape in psychopathological\u003cbr\u003eclassics such as \u003ci\u003eCrash\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHigh-Rise\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1987 Steven Spielberg\u003cbr\u003emade a movie of his best-selling autobiographical work, \u003ci\u003eEmpire of the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eFor the past 30 years J.G. Ballard has lived in Shepperton, England, home of\u003cbr\u003ethe famous film studios. {J.G. Ballard died April 19, 2009 in London, U.K.] \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Re\/Search Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50545198989586,"sku":"9781889307121","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_907c459f-464b-4fdd-b293-55785d1a2f6a.jpg?v=1731542363","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/jg-ballard-quotes-9781889307121","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}