#ComsatAngels. Like another great post-punk Sheffield band much inspired by science fiction. Name taken from a terrific #JGBallard story about a global child genius conspiracy; song about the sadly neglected Nevil Shute post-apocalyptic novel.
open.spotify.com/track/5sFWA8...
open.spotify.com/track/5sFWA8...
On The Beach
open.spotify.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:50 PM
#ComsatAngels. Like another great post-punk Sheffield band much inspired by science fiction. Name taken from a terrific #JGBallard story about a global child genius conspiracy; song about the sadly neglected Nevil Shute post-apocalyptic novel.
open.spotify.com/track/5sFWA8...
open.spotify.com/track/5sFWA8...
"Are you on drugs, Gerald?"
We're staying home in tonight's movie.
#Home #jgballard #anthonysher
wyrdbritain.blogspot.com/2024/07/home...
We're staying home in tonight's movie.
#Home #jgballard #anthonysher
wyrdbritain.blogspot.com/2024/07/home...
January 8, 2026 at 9:50 PM
"Are you on drugs, Gerald?"
We're staying home in tonight's movie.
#Home #jgballard #anthonysher
wyrdbritain.blogspot.com/2024/07/home...
We're staying home in tonight's movie.
#Home #jgballard #anthonysher
wyrdbritain.blogspot.com/2024/07/home...
Reading projects to start the year.
Chronological read of #JGBallard short stories - bonus introduction by #MartinAmis.
The complete Conan by #RobertEHoward.
Cracking on with the transcendent #ChronicleOfAncientSunlight by #HenryWilliamson.
The misguided pursuit to understand quantum mechanics.
Chronological read of #JGBallard short stories - bonus introduction by #MartinAmis.
The complete Conan by #RobertEHoward.
Cracking on with the transcendent #ChronicleOfAncientSunlight by #HenryWilliamson.
The misguided pursuit to understand quantum mechanics.
January 3, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Reading projects to start the year.
Chronological read of #JGBallard short stories - bonus introduction by #MartinAmis.
The complete Conan by #RobertEHoward.
Cracking on with the transcendent #ChronicleOfAncientSunlight by #HenryWilliamson.
The misguided pursuit to understand quantum mechanics.
Chronological read of #JGBallard short stories - bonus introduction by #MartinAmis.
The complete Conan by #RobertEHoward.
Cracking on with the transcendent #ChronicleOfAncientSunlight by #HenryWilliamson.
The misguided pursuit to understand quantum mechanics.
Is it closer to #JGBallard or #Baudrillard?
www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
What lies at the end of the American frontier? The Earth is spinning towards the east at around 1,675 km/h (1,040 mph).
www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
What lies at the end of the American frontier? The Earth is spinning towards the east at around 1,675 km/h (1,040 mph).
December 30, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Is it closer to #JGBallard or #Baudrillard?
www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
What lies at the end of the American frontier? The Earth is spinning towards the east at around 1,675 km/h (1,040 mph).
www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
What lies at the end of the American frontier? The Earth is spinning towards the east at around 1,675 km/h (1,040 mph).
Finished #ConcreteIsland
#JGBallard
His relationships…all the thousand and one emotionally loaded transactions of his childhood, would have been tolerable if he had been able to pay for them in some neutral currency, hard cash across the high-priced counters of these relationships….
#JGBallard
His relationships…all the thousand and one emotionally loaded transactions of his childhood, would have been tolerable if he had been able to pay for them in some neutral currency, hard cash across the high-priced counters of these relationships….
December 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Finished #ConcreteIsland
#JGBallard
His relationships…all the thousand and one emotionally loaded transactions of his childhood, would have been tolerable if he had been able to pay for them in some neutral currency, hard cash across the high-priced counters of these relationships….
#JGBallard
His relationships…all the thousand and one emotionally loaded transactions of his childhood, would have been tolerable if he had been able to pay for them in some neutral currency, hard cash across the high-priced counters of these relationships….
#ConcreteIsland
#JGBallard
For years now he had
re-mythologized his own childhood…
a small boy playing endlessly by himself in a long suburban garden…Perhaps even his marriage to Catherine…had succeeded precisely because it recreated for him this imaginary empty garden.
#JGBallard
For years now he had
re-mythologized his own childhood…
a small boy playing endlessly by himself in a long suburban garden…Perhaps even his marriage to Catherine…had succeeded precisely because it recreated for him this imaginary empty garden.
December 21, 2025 at 4:06 AM
#ConcreteIsland
#JGBallard
For years now he had
re-mythologized his own childhood…
a small boy playing endlessly by himself in a long suburban garden…Perhaps even his marriage to Catherine…had succeeded precisely because it recreated for him this imaginary empty garden.
#JGBallard
For years now he had
re-mythologized his own childhood…
a small boy playing endlessly by himself in a long suburban garden…Perhaps even his marriage to Catherine…had succeeded precisely because it recreated for him this imaginary empty garden.
“Today’s politics is tailor-made for him. Smiles leaking everywhere, mood music, the sales campaign that gets rid of the need for a product. Even the shiftiness. People like to be conned. It reminds them that everything is a game”
#JGBallard #UKPolitics
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#JGBallard #UKPolitics
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Want to understand the sickness of Britain today? Look no further – a novel explained it all 20 years ago | Aditya Chakrabortty
The racism, the predatory politics, the banality and cruelty: we struggle to make sense of it, but JG Ballard foretold everything we are living through now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:27 AM
“Today’s politics is tailor-made for him. Smiles leaking everywhere, mood music, the sales campaign that gets rid of the need for a product. Even the shiftiness. People like to be conned. It reminds them that everything is a game”
#JGBallard #UKPolitics
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#JGBallard #UKPolitics
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
◻️
#JGBallard
"The racism, the predatory politics, the banality and cruelty: we struggle to make sense of it, but JG Ballard foretold everything we are living through now."
Kingdom Come by JG Ballard (2006)
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
⚪ ..the convergence of consumerism and fascism
#JGBallard
"The racism, the predatory politics, the banality and cruelty: we struggle to make sense of it, but JG Ballard foretold everything we are living through now."
Kingdom Come by JG Ballard (2006)
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
⚪ ..the convergence of consumerism and fascism
Want to understand the sickness of Britain today? Look no further – a novel explained it all 20 years ago | Aditya Chakrabortty
The racism, the predatory politics, the banality and cruelty: we struggle to make sense of it, but JG Ballard foretold everything we are living through now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
◻️
#JGBallard
"The racism, the predatory politics, the banality and cruelty: we struggle to make sense of it, but JG Ballard foretold everything we are living through now."
Kingdom Come by JG Ballard (2006)
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
⚪ ..the convergence of consumerism and fascism
#JGBallard
"The racism, the predatory politics, the banality and cruelty: we struggle to make sense of it, but JG Ballard foretold everything we are living through now."
Kingdom Come by JG Ballard (2006)
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
⚪ ..the convergence of consumerism and fascism
Just finished: J.G. Ballard “Running Wild” (Hutchinson), 1988. Finally got around to this gated-community-as-panopticon novella. It was the only work of Ballard’s fiction that I had yet to read. Kind of bittersweet to come to the end. #BookSky #JGBallard
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Just finished: J.G. Ballard “Running Wild” (Hutchinson), 1988. Finally got around to this gated-community-as-panopticon novella. It was the only work of Ballard’s fiction that I had yet to read. Kind of bittersweet to come to the end. #BookSky #JGBallard
‘Ballard and I were invited. We went. We flew.’ Brian Aldiss on J.G. Ballard—early days in Oxford, Rio misadventures, and a friendship lost to silence. Read the full post: brianaldiss.co.uk/2025/12/09/f... #brianaldiss #jgballard #newwavesf
December 9, 2025 at 11:18 AM
‘Ballard and I were invited. We went. We flew.’ Brian Aldiss on J.G. Ballard—early days in Oxford, Rio misadventures, and a friendship lost to silence. Read the full post: brianaldiss.co.uk/2025/12/09/f... #brianaldiss #jgballard #newwavesf
6. AGENTES DEL OLVIDO, de Iain Sinclair (@La_Felguera)
En sus libros #IainSinclair se mueve para encontrar frecuencias y coincidencias entre tiempos, edificios y rituales. Aquí sigue los pasos de #AlgernonBlackwood, #ArthurMachen, #JGBallard y #HPLovecraft, agentes del olvido.
En sus libros #IainSinclair se mueve para encontrar frecuencias y coincidencias entre tiempos, edificios y rituales. Aquí sigue los pasos de #AlgernonBlackwood, #ArthurMachen, #JGBallard y #HPLovecraft, agentes del olvido.
December 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
6. AGENTES DEL OLVIDO, de Iain Sinclair (@La_Felguera)
En sus libros #IainSinclair se mueve para encontrar frecuencias y coincidencias entre tiempos, edificios y rituales. Aquí sigue los pasos de #AlgernonBlackwood, #ArthurMachen, #JGBallard y #HPLovecraft, agentes del olvido.
En sus libros #IainSinclair se mueve para encontrar frecuencias y coincidencias entre tiempos, edificios y rituales. Aquí sigue los pasos de #AlgernonBlackwood, #ArthurMachen, #JGBallard y #HPLovecraft, agentes del olvido.
Tonight's film is an adaptation of the J.G. Ballard short story 'The Enormous Space'.
"I'm about to reach out and touch the infinite"
wyrdbritain.blogspot.com/2024/07/home...
#jgballard
"I'm about to reach out and touch the infinite"
wyrdbritain.blogspot.com/2024/07/home...
#jgballard
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Tonight's film is an adaptation of the J.G. Ballard short story 'The Enormous Space'.
"I'm about to reach out and touch the infinite"
wyrdbritain.blogspot.com/2024/07/home...
#jgballard
"I'm about to reach out and touch the infinite"
wyrdbritain.blogspot.com/2024/07/home...
#jgballard
What Does J.G. Ballard Look Like?
Illustration for The Atrocity Exhibition by Phoebe Gloeckner,
Re/Search, 1990
#JGBallard #BOTD #Ballardian
Illustration for The Atrocity Exhibition by Phoebe Gloeckner,
Re/Search, 1990
#JGBallard #BOTD #Ballardian
November 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
What Does J.G. Ballard Look Like?
Illustration for The Atrocity Exhibition by Phoebe Gloeckner,
Re/Search, 1990
#JGBallard #BOTD #Ballardian
Illustration for The Atrocity Exhibition by Phoebe Gloeckner,
Re/Search, 1990
#JGBallard #BOTD #Ballardian
Flamingo Modern Classics edition of J.G. Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition (Introduction by Japanese novelist Hari Kunzru)
#JGBallard #BOTD #Ballardian #ExperimentalLiterature
#JGBallard #BOTD #Ballardian #ExperimentalLiterature
November 16, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Flamingo Modern Classics edition of J.G. Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition (Introduction by Japanese novelist Hari Kunzru)
#JGBallard #BOTD #Ballardian #ExperimentalLiterature
#JGBallard #BOTD #Ballardian #ExperimentalLiterature
J.G. Ballard’s Experimental Text Collages: 'Project for a New Novel', his 1958 Foray into Avant-Garde Literature.
#JGBallard #BOTD #Ballardian #ExperimentalLiterature
#JGBallard #BOTD #Ballardian #ExperimentalLiterature
November 16, 2025 at 2:49 AM
J.G. Ballard’s Experimental Text Collages: 'Project for a New Novel', his 1958 Foray into Avant-Garde Literature.
#JGBallard #BOTD #Ballardian #ExperimentalLiterature
#JGBallard #BOTD #Ballardian #ExperimentalLiterature
J.G. Ballard & J.G. Ballard
#JGBallard #BOTD
The novelist J.G. Ballard as a student at Cambridge University, in 1950. The surreal composition, showing two images of Ballard facing each other, was created by a double exposure and presumably set up by Ballard himself.
#JGBallard #BOTD
The novelist J.G. Ballard as a student at Cambridge University, in 1950. The surreal composition, showing two images of Ballard facing each other, was created by a double exposure and presumably set up by Ballard himself.
November 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
J.G. Ballard & J.G. Ballard
#JGBallard #BOTD
The novelist J.G. Ballard as a student at Cambridge University, in 1950. The surreal composition, showing two images of Ballard facing each other, was created by a double exposure and presumably set up by Ballard himself.
#JGBallard #BOTD
The novelist J.G. Ballard as a student at Cambridge University, in 1950. The surreal composition, showing two images of Ballard facing each other, was created by a double exposure and presumably set up by Ballard himself.
“Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.”
#JGBallard
Ballard in costume for his blink-and-you-miss it cameo
in Empire of the Sun (1987)
#JGBallard
Ballard in costume for his blink-and-you-miss it cameo
in Empire of the Sun (1987)
November 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
“Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.”
#JGBallard
Ballard in costume for his blink-and-you-miss it cameo
in Empire of the Sun (1987)
#JGBallard
Ballard in costume for his blink-and-you-miss it cameo
in Empire of the Sun (1987)
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to authors William Hope Hodgson (1877) and J.G. Ballard (1930).
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #williamhopehodgson #jgballard
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #williamhopehodgson #jgballard
November 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to authors William Hope Hodgson (1877) and J.G. Ballard (1930).
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #williamhopehodgson #jgballard
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #williamhopehodgson #jgballard
For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.
- James Graham Ballard, Crash
born on this day, 1930
#BookSky
#JGBallard
- James Graham Ballard, Crash
born on this day, 1930
#BookSky
#JGBallard
November 15, 2025 at 5:48 AM
For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.
- James Graham Ballard, Crash
born on this day, 1930
#BookSky
#JGBallard
- James Graham Ballard, Crash
born on this day, 1930
#BookSky
#JGBallard
"I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen."
✒ #JGBallard was #BOTD 15 November 1930.
✒ #JGBallard was #BOTD 15 November 1930.
November 15, 2025 at 3:13 AM
"I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen."
✒ #JGBallard was #BOTD 15 November 1930.
✒ #JGBallard was #BOTD 15 November 1930.
October 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
October 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I wrote down some of my favorite sentences from J.G. Ballard's debut novel, The Drowned World (1962).
Hit the link below if you want to hear me read my Drowned World simile collection (and hear plot spoilers) 👇
#sciencefiction #jgballard
Hit the link below if you want to hear me read my Drowned World simile collection (and hear plot spoilers) 👇
#sciencefiction #jgballard
October 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I wrote down some of my favorite sentences from J.G. Ballard's debut novel, The Drowned World (1962).
Hit the link below if you want to hear me read my Drowned World simile collection (and hear plot spoilers) 👇
#sciencefiction #jgballard
Hit the link below if you want to hear me read my Drowned World simile collection (and hear plot spoilers) 👇
#sciencefiction #jgballard