JG Ballard

31 Mar 2022 01:55 - 17 Jun 2023 08:29
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    • Uncannily prophetic SF author, registered the tone of the times like nobody else really.
      • I'm very proud to have made an appearance in The Atrocity Exhibition.
      • ...the director watched Travers with his unpleasant eyes. His aggressive stare had surprised Travers - seeing himself confused with the psychotic patients was too sharp a commentary on his own role at the Institute, a reminder of his long and wearisome dispute...
    • The name of the protagonist keeps shifting around, but "Travers" is one of them, and I certainly had a long and wearisome dispute with the director of my Institute (Nicholas (spit) Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab). See Omniorthogonal: I am a science fiction character