J. G. Ballard

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer…

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung…

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which…

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a…

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow…

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that’s…

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in…

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn’t in the…

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead…

I don’t think it’s possible to touch people’s imagination today by aesthetic means…

The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and…

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom…

Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality…