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Name: BALLARD, James Graham
Aged: 78
Born: Nov 15, 1930
Where: Shanghai, China
Died: April 19, 2009
Where: London, England
Interred:
Married: Matthews, Helen
When: 1954 (dec'd 1964)
Companion: Walsh, Claire Churchill
When: (survives)
"The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth.
It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational
creatures most of the time, and we're not."
[Editor Note: "I must apologize. I have read only a few of the J. G. Ballard stories ... and those few in F&SF and Galaxy long years ago. I know little about Ballard's overall work, remember even less. Rather than borrow other's efforts and putting my name on that, (ala web-site encyclopedias, so-called), I will refer you to the fabulous British obituaries linked below ... which are, as often as not, ten times better & more detailed than anything created in the U.S.A. editorial rooms. Gratefully acknowledging the superior efforts of David Pringle of The Guardian, Murray Wardrop of The Telegraph, and John Clute of the Independent ... and the one American who held his own, Bruce Weber of The New York Times. GCW"]
"Science Fiction ... is concerned with seeing the present
in terms of the immediate future rather than the past
... and picturing the psychology of those futures."
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Mine here.
BIOGRAPHY: Miracles Of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton (2008)
OBITUARIES: Various.
