Empire of the Sun, French edition, Denoël (1985), with cover art ‘Singapour 1945′ by Ronald Seatle. Thanks to Herve for all cover scans. Interview by Tony Cartano & Maxim Jakubowski. Translation by Dan O’Hara. The following interview, originally titled ‘Le passé compos...

All photography by Simon Sellars. Bizarrely, it has been almost a year since I posted the first part of this photo essay. There are so many loose ends dangling from this site, frayed and incomplete due to the mad scramble to complete my PhD in the latter half of 2008. Now it’s my mission to cl...

     Saul was a man so violently opposed to Jesus Christ that he zealously persecuted and murdered Christians.  But, Jesus returned from Heaven to convert Saul, who then adopted the Christian name of Paul and became a pastor and missionary.  His courageous travels brought the Gospel to many pe...

by Mike Holliday Ballard’s oeuvre has many highlights: the 1960s ‘disaster trilogy’ of novels, Crash, Empire of the Sun, and short stories such as ‘The Voices of Time’ and ‘The Terminal Beach’. Not surprisingly, much of the secondary literature tends to conc...

Fictitious billboard campaign starring ‘David Cruise’, created for Ballard’s Kingdom Come. Image courtesy the Metro-Centre. Billboards loom large in Ballard’s work, symbol of the wraparound reality that advertising and media came to represent with the advent of the 60s and th...

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ABOVE: ‘The Sound-Sweep’, by George Thompson, based on the story by J.G. Ballard. A film produced for Nic Clear’s Unit 15 course, ‘Crash: Architectures of the Near Future’. In recognition of the sophistication of Ballard’s architectural analysis, a raft of discour...

ABOVE: Ultra-bizarre footage of the Philip K Dick android, whose head was unbelievably left in the overhead bin on an airplane, never to be found again. If alive this day, he’d be 80 — today. For some reason, it surprises me that Dick was two years older than Ballard. It always seemed to...

by MIKE BONSALL The Westway from a spot near Little Venice, west London. Photo: Simon Crubellier. ‘J.G. Ballard, the visionary creator of drowned worlds, Vermillion Sands, and now at work on a novel about a motorway desert island…’ Emma Tennant, Burnt Diaries . ‘Soon after th...

Illustrations by Mike Saenz for two Ballard stories in Semiotext(e) SF: ‘Jane Fonda’s Augmentation Mammoplasty’ and ‘Report on an Unidentified Space Station’. Rudy Rucker’s wonderful reminiscences about the early days of cyberpunk (’it felt like being an early Beat̵...