Re:J.G. Ballard: My Favorite Books
by atombender on Thursday February 08, 2024 @04:35PM
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My favourite short story of Ballard's is "Report on an Unidentified Space Station" (1982) [1]. It manages to be superb sci-fi while also showing several of Ballard's favourite topics — in particular, architecture and religion.
Another favourite is "A Question of Re-Entry" (1963), set in the Amazonian rainforest, and a kind of postcolonialist retelling of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness".
In googling a source for that story, I found that it was turned into a radio play [2] in 1988 by the Canadian CBC, along with several other stories [3].
Another favourite is "A Question of Re-Entry" (1963), set in the Amazonian rainforest, and a kind of postcolonialist retelling of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness".
In googling a source for that story, I found that it was turned into a radio play [2] in 1988 by the Canadian CBC, along with several other stories [3].
[1] https://sseh.uchicago.edu/doc/roauss.htm
[2] https://www.jgballard.ca/vanishing_point/cbc_drama/re-entry....
[3] https://www.jgballard.ca/vanishing_point/jgb_vanishingpoint....