Contents
Simon Sellars – Introduction: A Launchpad for Other Explorations
1967: George MacBeth. The New Science Fiction
1968: Uncredited. Munich Round Up – Interview with J.G. Ballard
1968: Jannick Storm. An Interview with J.G. Ballard
1970: Lynn Barber. Sci-fi Seer
1971: Frank Whitford. Speculative Illustrations: Eduardo Paolozzi in Conversation with J.G. Ballard
1973: Peter Linnett. J.G. Ballard
1974: Carol Orr. How to Face Doomsday without Really Trying
1974: Robert Louit. Crash & Learn
1975: Philippe R. Hupp. Interview with J.G. Ballard
1975: James Goddard and David Pringle. An Interview with J.G. Ballard
1976: Jörg Krichbaum & Rein A. Zondergeld. ‘It would be a mistake to write about the future’
1978: Jon Savage. J.G. Ballard
1979: Christopher Evans. The Space Age Is Over
1982: Werner Fuchs & Joachim Körber. An Interview with J.G. Ballard
1982: V. Vale. Interview with JGB
1983: Sam Scoggins. Ninety Questions from the Eyckman Personality Quotient
1984: Thomas Frick. The Art of Fiction
1984: Peter Rønnov-Jessen. Against Entropy
1985: Tony Cartano and Maxim Jakubowski. The Past Tense of J.G. Ballard
1986. Solveig Nordlund. Future Now
1988: James Verniere. A Conversation with J.G. Ballard
1988: Rosetta Brooks. Myths of the Near Future
1991: Jeremy Lewis. An Interview with J.G. Ballard
1992: Phil Halper and Lard Lyer. The Visitor
1993: Joan Bakewell. Memento: J.G. Ballard
1995: Nicholas Zurbrugg. Empire of the Surreal
1995: Will Self. Conversations: J.G. Ballard
1996: Damien Love. ‘Kafka with unlimited Chicken Kiev’: J.G. Ballard on Cocaine Nights
1996: Chris Rodley. Crash Talk: J.G. Ballard in Conversation with David Cronenberg
1997: Mark Dery. J.G. Ballard’s Wild Ride
1997: Richard Kadrey & Suzanne Stefanac. J.G. Ballard on William S. Burroughs’ Naked Truth
1998: Zinovy Zinik. Russia on My Mind
1999: Iain Sinclair. J.G. Ballard’s Cinema in the Slipstream of Discontent
2000: John Gray. ‘Technology is always a facilitator’: J.G. Ballard on Super-Cannes
2003: Hans Ulrich Obrist. ‘Nothing is real, everything is fake’
2003: Chris Hall. ‘All we’ve got left is our own psychopathology’: J.G. Ballard on Millennium People
2004: Jeannette Baxter. Reading the Signs
2006: Toby Litt. ‘Dangerous bends ahead. Slow down’: J.G. Ballard on Kingdom Come
2006: Simon Sellars. ‘Rattling other people’s cages’
2006: Mark Goodall. An Exhibition of Atrocities: J.G. Ballard on Mondo Films
2006: Jonathan Weiss. ‘Not entirely a journey without maps’: J.G. Ballard on The Atrocity Exhibition
2007: Hari Kunzru. Historian of the Future
2008: James Naughtie. ‘Up a kind of sociological Amazon’: J.G. Ballard on Miracles of Life
Dan O’Hara – Afterword: Script-writing the Future