RIP J G Ballard

It's being reported that J G Ballard has passed away at the age of 78.

He was an author I admired very much, and I am saddened.

Ol' Fashioned Girl said:

Fifty plus years is an incredible career. Here's a link.

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Thanks for the link.

The final quote from him... well, let me repeat it:

"There is nothing inhuman about my fiction," he told one interviewer. "It is just, I think, that I am chasing a different hare around the track."

That, I think, explains a lot. Both about the recurrent themes in his writing -- and also about why he was such a damn fine writer. Wish I could resort to metaphor at the drop of a hat like that!