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RIP J.G. Ballard

 
 
MrKismet
18:15 / 19.04.09
J.G. Ballard has died.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
03:29 / 20.04.09
Heard from Stoats.

Wow. Can't even begin to process this yet.
 
 
This Sunday
03:42 / 20.04.09
I don't know why I thought this was a prank when the news first broke, but I had to see like three articles before I braved linking it on facebook.
 
 
GogMickGog
17:00 / 20.04.09
Absolutely flattened is how I feel. Odd. Never met the man, but pored over his writing for years. Very, very flattened. But look - he was ill, suffering I imagine. I'm sure the release was welcome.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
03:43 / 22.04.09
I've got into trouble with these threads before, (Fred Dibnah and Ronnie Barker, who I said some terrible things about) so I'll restrict my comments to saying that yes, it's very sad, but that it happens to everyone. And that JG Ballard would be the last to encourage any mawkish sentiment, at the end of what was a full, rich and often brilliant literary career.
 
 
tripplett
23:46 / 05.11.13
Grew up on Ballard.He, along with Delany and Ellison, pretty much held my hand as I wandered the world of speculative fiction, and a nice journey it's been, but now that world is a little emptier.
 
  
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