Status
Available
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Collection
Publication
New York : Picador USA, 1996.
Description
J.G.Ballard is the author of the novels Crash, Empire of the Sun and Rushing to Paradise. Throughout his career he has also been a regular contributor to magazines and newspapers. This book collects together pieces of his journalism, grouped under themes including science and film.
User reviews
LibraryThing member ragwaine
So that's what's been happening for the last 60 years! Talks a lot about surrealism.
LibraryThing member georgematt
J.G. Ballard also wrote reviews and articles for newspapers and magazines and the User's Guide to the Millennium is a varied collection of these non-fiction works from the 60's up the mid 90's. They display J.G's wide interests, covering everything from Hollywood to Science Fiction, making manifest
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his completely original take on the world. Many of the reviews run at a tangent from the subject discussed (and would be flagged as 'not a review' if posted on LibraryThing), drawing from his own reflections and ideas and in no way pretending to be objective, but this does not matter in the slightest as J.G. Ballard is my definition of a genius-totally unique. The best writing for me is mostly from New Worlds magazine in the 1960's, when he was at his most 'cutting edge' and literary respectability (Empire of the Sun) a long way off. Here he defines his own unigue type of science fiction stories against the classic space fiction of conventional SF, looks at the surrealist painters and their influence on him, discusses the importance of William Burroughs for literature and how Hitler and the Nazi's would not be out of place in the garish media landscape of the swinging sixties. Show Less
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1996
Physical description
304 p.; 22 cm
ISBN
0312144407 / 9780312144401