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JG Ballard wrote a 180 short story about Jinxian plots (link)

https://metaphorbymetaphor.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ew...
sepia fragrant school telephone
  08/18/24
180 story
aquamarine library scourge upon the earth
  08/18/24
I think Ballard’s stuff works because beneath all the ...
sepia fragrant school telephone
  08/18/24
Ballard is 180, but I haven't read enough. Are there others...
narrow-minded abnormal theater stage
  08/18/24
Crash and High Rise are both good; so is Millennium People (...
sepia fragrant school telephone
  08/18/24
you should read Memories of the Space Age, preferably the Ar...
aquamarine library scourge upon the earth
  08/18/24
Didn’t realize they put out any of his stuff I&rsqu...
sepia fragrant school telephone
  08/18/24
you have all the stories in that collection but you won't ge...
aquamarine library scourge upon the earth
  08/18/24
i'll try to track it down, then!
sepia fragrant school telephone
  08/18/24
ty
narrow-minded abnormal theater stage
  08/18/24
ty! I've read and enjoyed Crash and Atrocity Exhibition; wil...
narrow-minded abnormal theater stage
  08/18/24
If you liked this I’d also highly recommend Bolano&rsq...
sepia fragrant school telephone
  08/18/24
I assume you've read Borges, but if not go ahead.
aquamarine library scourge upon the earth
  08/18/24
ty! yes, I love JL Borges. I feel like he wrote for me pers...
narrow-minded abnormal theater stage
  08/18/24
"I feel like he wrote for me personally" that'...
sepia fragrant school telephone
  08/18/24
180
narrow-minded abnormal theater stage
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costumed hissy fit
  08/18/24
Also Cortazar A more horror-oriented Ballardian writer wa...
sepia fragrant school telephone
  08/18/24
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butt cheeks of Hormuz
  04/17/26


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Date: August 18th, 2024 7:57 AM
Author: sepia fragrant school telephone

https://metaphorbymetaphor.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ewriting_ballard_index.pdf

Probably my favorite Ballard story right now, and that's saying something

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2#47978402)



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Date: August 18th, 2024 10:06 AM
Author: aquamarine library scourge upon the earth

180 story

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2#47978585)



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Date: August 18th, 2024 10:50 AM
Author: sepia fragrant school telephone

I think Ballard’s stuff works because beneath all the chilly prose and pretentious formal experiments and deliberately bizarre/transgressive fixations he has a playful sense of humor

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2#47978687)



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Date: August 18th, 2024 10:07 AM
Author: narrow-minded abnormal theater stage

Ballard is 180, but I haven't read enough. Are there others you guys can recommend?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2#47978589)



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Date: August 18th, 2024 10:48 AM
Author: sepia fragrant school telephone

Crash and High Rise are both good; so is Millennium People (about UMC terrorists)

Atrocity Exhibition is good for a semi connected series of short stories about the usual Ballard fascinations (the space program, JFK, Elizabeth Taylor, car crashes, weapons, aviation, sex)

I haven’t read much of his earlier more “straight” science fiction books(which even so are relatively experimental) but I should. I should also read Empire of the Sun which isn’t science fiction at all but based on his own childhood in Japanese internment. Good movie.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2#47978683)



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Date: August 18th, 2024 10:54 AM
Author: aquamarine library scourge upon the earth

you should read Memories of the Space Age, preferably the Arkham House edition if you can find it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2#47978695)



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Date: August 18th, 2024 10:59 AM
Author: sepia fragrant school telephone

Didn’t realize they put out any of his stuff

I’ve got the complete short stories of JG Ballard but never actually read much of it but I’ve been reading around in it the last few days

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2#47978718)



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Date: August 18th, 2024 6:16 PM
Author: aquamarine library scourge upon the earth

you have all the stories in that collection but you won't get the cool pictures in the AH edition.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2#47979921)



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Date: August 18th, 2024 6:17 PM
Author: sepia fragrant school telephone

i'll try to track it down, then!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2#47979925)



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Date: August 18th, 2024 3:09 PM
Author: narrow-minded abnormal theater stage

ty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2#47979401)



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Date: August 18th, 2024 3:08 PM
Author: narrow-minded abnormal theater stage

ty! I've read and enjoyed Crash and Atrocity Exhibition; will check out the rest

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2#47979400)



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Date: August 18th, 2024 10:53 AM
Author: sepia fragrant school telephone

If you liked this I’d also highly recommend Bolano’s Nazi Literature of the Americas, which is a satirical/subversive alternate history of politics in the Americas and loaded with historical/literary jokes allusions. I know very little about South American politics other than the broad strokes so it was probably lost on me but even so it’s a good time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2#47978691)



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Date: August 18th, 2024 2:13 PM
Author: aquamarine library scourge upon the earth

I assume you've read Borges, but if not go ahead.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2#47979276)



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Date: August 18th, 2024 3:10 PM
Author: narrow-minded abnormal theater stage

ty! yes, I love JL Borges. I feel like he wrote for me personally. Have even read a lot of his nonfiction essays and enjoyed those too

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2#47979407)



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Date: August 18th, 2024 3:11 PM
Author: sepia fragrant school telephone

"I feel like he wrote for me personally"

that's how I feel about Ballard and a couple others



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2#47979411)



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Date: August 18th, 2024 6:18 PM
Author: narrow-minded abnormal theater stage

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2#47979929)



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Date: August 18th, 2024 7:14 PM
Author: costumed hissy fit



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2#47980116)



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Date: August 18th, 2024 6:21 PM
Author: sepia fragrant school telephone

Also Cortazar

A more horror-oriented Ballardian writer was physician Michael Blumlein. His collection "The Brains of Rats" is a really good bit of early 90s 'New Horror' (sort of how Ballard was part of the genre-expanding 'New Wave SF' in the 1960s). It isn't just horror, though--there's elements of science fiction and fantasy as well. If nothing else, it has the controversial and very Ballardian classic "Tissue Ablation and Variant Regeneration: A Case Report" (I previously reproduced it in its entirety at the link below, although the formatting is a bit wonky).

https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5297494&mc=5&forum_id=2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2#47979938)



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Date: April 17th, 2026 3:41 AM
Author: butt cheeks of Hormuz (✅🍑)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5578180&forum_id=2#49822916)