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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 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 July 26, 2018

The Waxwing Slain – short story from Nthposition.com, 2004

  This was the first story I had published on the now defunct nthposition.com. It owes a little too much to a certain J G Ballard story, but re-reading it…

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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 January 14, 2017

Janan Ganesh on “history’s luckiest generation” and J G Ballard on the moon landings

In today’s FT weekend there is an interesting column by Janan Ganesh (who I previously featured on this blog) on how, given our times are in so many ways disconnected…

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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 October 1, 2015

J G Ballard and The Lost Leonardo. The Dabbler, Sept 2014.

The original is here. This piece was quite a long time in the offing. Initially I had written it for Simon Sellars Ballardian site. Ultimately it fitted in (sorta) with The Dabbler’s 1p…

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