Edward Sanders accepts an invitation to visit his friends Dr. This huge jeweled gauntlet, like the coronation armor of a Spanish conquistador, was drying in the sun, its crystals beginning to emit a hard vivid light.”ĭr. From the elbow to the fingertips it was enclosed by-or more precisely had effloresced into-a mass of translucent crystals, through which the prismatic outlines of the hand and fingers could be seen in a dozen multi-colored reflections. ”What most attracted his attention, however, like that of the rest of the watching group, was the man’s right arm. Ballard's novels and stories, especially dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments.' The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry describes Ballard's work as being occupied with 'eros, thanatos, mass media and emergent technologies'. The literary distinctiveness of Ballard's work has given rise to the adjective 'Ballardian', defined by the Collins English Dictionary as 'resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in J. Described as 'The best British novel about the Second World War' by The Guardian, the story was adapted into a 1987 film by Steven Spielberg. While many of Ballard's stories are thematically and narratively unusual, he is perhaps best known for his relatively conventional war novel, Empire of the Sun (1984), a semi-autobiographical account of a young boy's experiences in Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War as it came to be occupied by the Japanese Imperial Army. The story was later adapted into a film of the same name by Canadian director David Cronenberg. In 1973 the highly controversial novel Crash was published, a story about symphorophilia and car crash fetishism the protagonist becomes sexually aroused by staging and participating in real car crashes. In the late 1960s and early 1970s Ballard focused on an eclectic variety of short stories (or 'condensed novels') such as The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), which drew closer comparison with the work of postmodernist writers such as William S. Ballard came to be associated with the New Wave of science fiction early in his career with apocalyptic (or post-apocalyptic) novels such as The Drowned World (1962), The Burning World (1964), and The Crystal World (1966). G.' Ballard (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist.

O Mundo de Cristal by J.G. Ballard