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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“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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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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