J. G. Ballard
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James Graham Ballard was an English novelist and short-story writer, satirist and essayist known for psychologically provocative works of fiction that explore the relations between human psychology, t
Ballard's Vermilion Sands story "The Singing Statues" took the cover of the July 1962 issue of Fantastic, featuring artwork by Ed Emshwiller.
Another Emshwiller cover illustrating the Vermilion Sands story "The Screen Game" (1963)
Ballard's novelette "The Time Tombs" was the cover story on the March 1963 issue of If.
Ballard's grave in Kensal Green Cemetery
Empire of the Sun (film)
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Empire of the Sun is a 1987 American war drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tom Stoppard, based on J. G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical 1984 novel of the same name. The film tells
J. G. Ballard
…of a British boy during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. Three years later, the American film director Steven Spielberg adapted the novel into a film of the same name. The novelist's journey from youth to mid-age is chronicled, with fictional inflections, in The Kindness of Women (1991), and in the autobiography…
Theatrical release poster by John Alvin
Christian Bale, pictured here in 1988, played Jamie "Jim" Graham.
Steven Spielberg by Gage Skidmore
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