Author
J. G. Ballard
15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009
James Graham Ballard was born and raised in the International Settlement in Shanghai, China to a chemist. In 1943 the Japanese occupied the International Settlement and Ballard's family was sent to the Lunghua Civilian Assembly Center, where they were interned for two years until the end of World War II. In 1946, Ballard went to England with his mother and sister, and stayed on in England after his mother and sister returned to China to rejoin his father. In 1949 he went to King's College, Cambridge to study medicine, but he began writing fiction and abandoned medicine in 1952 to pursue writing. In 1953 he joined the Air Force and was sent to the Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan to train. There he discovered science fiction in and he began to write science fiction. He left the RAF in 1954 and returned to England. In 1956 he published his science fiction story. In 1960 he committed to writing full-time.
Bibliography
Books
30 books
Antología de la literatura fantástica
1940
Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Леонид Николаевич Андреев, John Aubrey, J. G. Ballard, Sir Max Beerbohm, Ambrose Bierce, Ah'med Ech Chiruani, Léon Bloy, Delia Ingenieros, Ray Bradbury, Tor Åge Bringsværd, Martin Buber, Richard Francis Burton, Arturo Cancela, Pilar de Lusarreta, Thomas Carlyle, Lewis Carroll, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Zhuangzi, Jean Cocteau, Julio Cortázar, Santiago Dabove, Alexandra David-Néel, Lord Edward Dunsay, Macedonio Fernandez, James George Frazer, Elena Garro, Herbert Allen Giles, Nathaniel Hawthorne, I. A. Ireland, W. W. Jacobs, James Joyce, Don Juan Manuel, Franz Kafka, Rudyard Kipling, Leopoldo Lugones, Arthur Machen, Walter De la Mare, Guy de Maupassant, Edwin Morgan, H. A. Murena, Niu Chiao, Papini, Giovanni, Carlos Peralta, Barry Perowne, Petronius, Manuel Peyrou, Edgar Allan Poe, Pu Songling, François Rabelais, Saki, May Sinclair, Walter W. Skeat, Olaf Stapledon, Emanuel Swedenborg, Лев Толстой, B. Traven, Tsʻao, Hsüeh-chʻin., Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Voltaire, Evelyn Waugh, Edward Lucas White, Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, Oscar Wilde, Richard Wilhelm, G. Willoughby-Meade, Mary Shelley, Wu Cheng'en, William Butler Yeats, Jose Zorilla
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The Fantasy Hall of Fame [30 stories]
1985
Robert Silverberg, H. L. Gold, L. Sprague De Camp, C. L. Moore, Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony Boucher, Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, Robert A. Heinlein, James Blish, Jack Vance, Margaret St. Clair, Theodore Sturgeon, Avram Davidson, Poul Anderson, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, Peter S. Beagle, J. G. Ballard, R. A. Lafferty, Philip K. Dick, Clifford D. Simak, Tanith Lee, Harlan Ellison, Gene Wolfe, Roger Zelazny, Lucius Shepard, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ted Chiang
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder
1989
David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer, John M. Ford, Suzette Haden Elgin, Robin McKinley, Ursula K. Le Guin, Osbert Stiwell, Johannes Bobrowski, Anne McCaffrey, Rudy Rucker, Avram Davidson, Jack Finney, Margaret St. Clair, Murilo Rbiao, Harlan Ellison, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Patricia A. McKillip, Peter S. Beagle, J. G. Ballard, R. A. Lafferty, James Tiptree, Jr., E. T. A. Hoffmann, Graham Greene, John Brunner, Jack Vance
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The Second IF Reader of Science Fiction
1968
Frederik Pohl, Brian W. Aldiss, Isaac Asimov, J. G. Ballard, Algis Budrys, Hal Clement, David A. Kyle, Keith Laumer, Larry Niven, Fred Saberhagen
The great science fiction series
1980
Frederik Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander, Brian W. Aldiss, Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, J. G. Ballard, James Blish, J. A. Lawrence, Reginald Bretnor, Arthur C. Clarke, L. Sprague De Camp, Fletcher Pratt, Zenna Henderson, Keith Laumer, Fritz Leiber, Anne McCaffrey, Larry Niven, Fred Saberhagen, Bob Shaw, Robert Sheckley, Wilmar H. Shiras, Clifford D. Simak, John J. Pierce, Cordwainer Smith
Great World War II Stories
1989
Irwin Shaw, J. G. Ballard, Nevil Shute, Ewen Montagu, James Jones, W. Stanley Moss, James A. Michener, Richard Hillary, Kurt Vonnegut, Evelyn Waugh, Norman Mailer, Charles James Rolo, Bruce Marshall, Paul Brickhill, Graham Brooks, Cornelius Ryan, Minney, R. J., Lindsay Baly, P. R. Reed, Guy Gibson, Nella Last, Joseph Heller, Martha Gellhorn, Raymond Paull, H. E. Bates, Ronald Seth, Prebble, John, Nancy Wake, F. J. Salfeld, John Steinbeck, Nicholas Monsarrat, R. L. Crimp, James Aldridge, Robert J. Casey, John Hersey
