James Graham Ballard (born
November 18,
1930) is a
British novelist remarkable for the range of genres of his novels -
science fiction, modernistic art novel, and historical setting. A great many of his writings are about
dystopias.
Note: This is a partial list.
- The Drowned World[?]
- The Crystal World[?]
- Terminal Beach[?]
- Vermilion Sands[?]
- High Rise[?] -- part of so-called "dystopian trilogy" (w/ "Concrete Island" and "Crash")
- Concrete Island[?]
- Crash
- The Atrocity Exhibition[?]
- Cocaine Nights[?]
- Super-Cannes[?]
- Running Wild[?]
- War Fever[?] -- a compilation of essays and stories
- The Wind That Came From Nowhere[?]
- Empire of the Sun[?] -- historical novel, based on his own adolescence in a Japanese P.O.W. camp in Shanghai.
See also: Brian Aldiss