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)

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)

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)

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

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

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)