![]() Complete Short Stories was published in 2001, and a second volume of stories in 2006. The dislocated sense of time and space in these stories is located in his childhood experience of war and provides many of the images that have become associated with Ballard's fiction: wrecked machinery, deserted beaches, crashed cars, abandoned buildings and empty, desolate landscapes - "still-life arranged by a demolition squad" as Ballard himself described his settings in an interview with BBC Radio 3 ( Nightwaves, 30 October 2001). The short story is seen by many critics as central to Ballard's work, originating and developing themes and obsessions that progress through into his novels. This and many other short stories were published in science fiction magazines and were heavily influenced by the surrealist movement. His first short story was published in 1956. He worked as a copywriter and was stationed in Canada with the Royal Air Force. ![]() ![]() Ballard read Medicine at King's College, Cambridge, and later studied English at London University. His family was interned by the Japanese during the Second World War, returning to Britain in 1946. ![]() Novelist, essayist and short-story writer J(ames) G(raham) Ballard was born in Shanghai, China on 15 November 1930. ![]()
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