Ballard, J(ames) G(raham)
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born Nov. 15, 1930, Shanghai, China
British writer.
Ballard spent four years of his childhood in a Japanese prison camp, an experience he described in
Empire of the Sun (1984; film, 1987). His science fiction is often set in ecologically unbalanced landscapes caused by decadent technological excess. His apocalyptic novels, often shockingly violent, include
Crash (1973; film, 1996),
Concrete Island (1974), and
High Rise (1975). His later works include the short-story collection
War Fever (1990) and the novels
The Kindness of Women (1991) and
Cocaine Nights (1998).
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Universalium.
2010.
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Ballard, J(ames) G(raham) — (n. 15 nov. 1930, Shanghai, China). Escritor británico. Ballard pasó cinco años de su infancia en un campo de prisioneros en Japón, experiencia que describió en El imperio del sol (1984; película, 1987). Suele ambientar sus relatos de ciencia… … Enciclopedia Universal
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