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Re:J.G. Ballard: My Favorite Books by ecliptik on Thursday February 08, 2024 @01:50PM (#39305895)
Absolutely love this trilogy too. The Drowned World was my first proper introduction to Ballard.

I'd always liked the movie Empire of the Sun since I was a kid, but could never quite put my finger on why. One day in 2020 I read the films wikipedia page, started reading more about him as an author and got hooked.

To quote John Gray [1],

>Unlike many others, it wasn't his dystopian vision that gripped my imagination. For me his work was lyrical – an evocation of the beauty that can be gleaned from landscapes of desolation.

1. https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2018/12/john-gray-on-jg...

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Re:J.G. Ballard: My Favorite Books by hermitcrab on Thursday February 08, 2024 @03:17PM (#39307074)
His book 'The kindness of women' helps to fill in a lot of the biographical context behind 'Empire of the Sun' and many of his other works.
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