How WEIRD it was
Average science fiction is about the future
Great science fiction is about the now
JG Ballard's science fiction is a mythology of the mid-20th century
A world being paved over by concrete motorways and shopping centres and tower blocks
and waiting for a nuclear armageddon
I read Ballard in the late part of the century. Living in this concrete landscape that …
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