Promo Poster for adaptation of Ballard’s High Rise
The recently deceased, and legendary SF writer J.G. Ballard’s High Rise In the Ocean is being adapted to film by Vicenzo Natali. I feel about Ballard the way I do Thomas Disch (who passed away last year) in that specifically their catalog of work just ooozes with potential for big screen adaptation. I don’t even mean direct translations, but in the way that we see numerous PKD works find their way on film (some uncredited).
More after the jump . . .
RIP – J.G. Ballard passes away (1930-2009)
After some unconfirmed reports via twitter, Michael Moorcock passes on the news that author J.G. Ballard has passed away. Also confirmed by BBC.
BSC would like to send our condolences to his family. A major loss of a foundational and transcending writer in field(s) I love.
Book Review – The Wind from Nowhere
Author: J.G. Ballard Publisher: Penguin Binding: Paperback Publication Date: April 1974 For those of you who don’t know, J. G. Ballard is a major figure both inside and outside the science fiction genre, these days writing more out of it. His first novel, The Wind from Nowhere, is one of his four catastrophe tales based [...]
