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Posted on March 25, 2019January 12, 2019

J G Ballard on viewing Crivelli’s Annunciation

Via Bibliokept: I am sure that a large part of the enduring mystery of the Renaissance masterpieces in the National Gallery was due to the absence of the explanatory matter that…

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Posted on January 9, 2019January 9, 2019

Review of “Kafkaesque” edited by John Kessel and James Patrick Kelly, SF Site, 2012

I previously blogged a shorter piece, adapted from this review, on Kafka and alternate history. Here is a full review of what was an enjoyable book to read, : “Kafkaesque”…

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Posted on October 18, 2018

“Still on patrol”

I came across this call for submissions for an upcoming anthology by Otter Libris: There is a tradition in the United States Navy that no submarine is ever truly lost…

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Posted on March 1, 2018March 1, 2018

“the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you” = J G Ballard on Creativity

A while back I reposted an essay I wrote on Nthposition.com (which is now offline) in which featured a quote from J G Ballard: “Cyril Connolly said that the greatest…

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Posted on September 2, 2016

Le livre d’or de la science fiction: J G Ballard.

On my recent trip to Montmorillon I picked up for six euro a paperback Le Livre d’or de la science fiction: J G Ballard: As French Wikipedia puts it “Le Livre d’or…

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Posted on November 16, 2015November 16, 2015

Extract from a paper in progress on sleep in J G Ballard’s fiction

“Manhole 69 follows three volunteers, Avery, Lang and Gorrell, who have undertook a procedure which has removed the ability to sleep. The primary investigator, Dr Neill, reflects with scorn on sleep:…

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Posted on September 28, 2015

Adding Value To Writing. Nthposition. January 2009.

The original is here . In retrospect, this piece was really about stringing three of my favourite quotes about writing into a piece. “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.” ADDING…

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