Ballard is awesome, though most of his real gold is in his short stories (a rare writer who really got into the format rather than treated it as a side line). A

Ballard is awesome, though most of his real gold is in his short stories (a rare writer who really got into the format rather than treated it as a side line). A lot of interesting "ideas" related to science and society get explored, such as overpopulation, the psychology of insomnia, medical experiments, etc.