I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again ... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul
J.G. BallardAu revoir, jewelled alligators and white hotels, hallucinatory forests, farewell.
J.G. BallardEverything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
J.G. BallardTags: aboutsf
In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom.
J.G. BallardTags: humor
Nothing is real until you put it in the VCR.
J.G. BallardThe Kingdom of God might be at hand, but that hand was empty.
J.G. BallardReaders will recall that the little evidence collected seemed to point to the strange and confusing figure of an unidentified Air Force pilot whose body was washed ashore on a beach near Dieppe three months later. Other traces of his ‘mortal remains’ were found in a number of unexpected places: in a footnote to a paper on some unusual aspects of schizophrenia published thirty years earlier in a since defunct psychiatric journal; in the pilot for an unpurchased TV thriller, ‘Lieutenant 70’; and on the record labels of a pop singer known as The Him — to instance only a few. Whether in fact this man was a returning astronaut suffering from amnesia, the figment of an ill-organized advertising campaign, or, as some have suggested, the second coming of Christ, is anyone’s guess.
J.G. BallardTags: humor astronauts
Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.
J.G. BallardTags: normalcy fish-in-water the-trouble-with-forgetting
Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.
J.G. BallardTags: ballardian
Sooner or later, everything turns into television.
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