Ballard was a brilliant futurist and his dystopian novels and short stories anticipated the 80s cyberpunk of William Gibson, exploring with a twisted sense of humor what Jean Lyotard famously dubbed in 1979 The Postmodern Condition.
He was all of these, and more. Ballard was a realist chronicler of 20th-century horrors; perverse explorer of - in Burroughs' words - 'the non-sexual roots of sexuality'; sci-fi satirist of the bleak post-industrial wastelands of modernity.
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