JG Ballard dies aged 78

[@sassyschoolmarm]

I wrote him a letter once when I was young and star struck. My favourite writer of all time. He wrote back such a beautiful and kind letter that it is one of my most treasured possessions. Rest In Peace Jim. The world will not be the same without your unique perspective. I smashed a cup when I heard. :-(. I learned to observe with broader eyes because of him.

[@johnappleby405]

A very generous soul and a brilliant man rip

[@diskochimp]

"The great thing about science fiction is that nobody lives in Hampstead."

[@colinr0380]

Normally I would complain that they interviewed Martin Amis next to what sounded like a noisy road full of traffic passing by, but it seems rather appropriate in this particular case!

[@alienbaroque]

He was a genius.

[@wasteoflifeandinternet9674]

I don't think he ever wrote a bad novel, actually.

[@anthonykomives2811]

Yes…..my dad was a fan of hard SF, the Americans though. But he had the Drowned World, which I read as a ten year old and I read Crash when it had been out for a year. And decades later l started writing and performing and when l look back at the things I wrote then…l can see some Ballardisms😅

[@zetetic666]

And obviously Martin Amis still doesn't really get Crash...

[@davidreeslaing]

Hyper-realism on the Costa de Sol, to see through the veil of contemporary semi-detached pebbled fronted life and to see the personality expressed in our urban surroundings.

[@gilesevans6951]

The majority of published writers nowadays are pretentious egotists. JG Ballard wasn't. Sad thing is, publishing houses haven't got the balls (or money) to take a risk on originality.

[@iandonnelly522]

Absolutely....I’ve watched lots of interviews with him and apart from his razor sharp mind, what stood out was his humility and clearly affable nature. A man I would have loved to have met and have a drink with! Btw there’s a great book by an Australian author Simon Sellars called “Applied Ballardianism”......well worth a read! 👌

[@firstnamelastname4653]

what was your letter about if you'd care to share? (in private or on here)

[@joeestrada3177]

3:22, 3:25.