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One of my favorite authors and highly recommend his short stories [1] and the "ambiguous apocalypse" trilogy - The Drowned World, The Burning World, and The Cry
by ecliptik 5mo ago
One of my favorite authors and highly recommend his short stories [1] and the "ambiguous apocalypse" trilogy - The Drowned World, The Burning World, and The Crystal World.
As one of collections intros said, Ballard is science fiction, but Inner Space, not Outer Space.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Short_Stories_of_J._G._Ballard:_Volume_1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Short_Stories_of_...
- atombender 5mo agoI absolutely loved The Crystal World. It's a unique, weird fever dream of a novel. I still find myself thinking about it at random times, even while being unsure if the book really makes sense. The Burning World is rarely talked about. How is it?
- FpUser 5mo ago>"The Drowned World, The Burning World, and The Crystal World" - same here, my favorites
- vidarh 5mo agoIt's perhaps fitting that Christopher Priest, one of the biographers, is the author of Inverted World, that might well fit in the "inner space" genre.