J.G. Ballard

Less than a decade after the book's first appearance, it seems, if anything, even more science fictional, because a story about middle class revolt appears not just prescient, it is eerily predictive. Everywhere we look around us, from the Tea Party to the Occupy movement, from clashes over tuition fees to the sight of doctors and teachers and top civil servants on strike, we see the middle classes in revolt. Surely that is exactly what...  

SCI-FI fans know J.G. Ballard as an English writer of prophetic novels that expanded the genre’s ... In the early 1950s he attended university in London, pursuing first medicine and then English literature as fields of study. He eventually abandoned ...