Goodbye Uncle Jim (1930-2009)

[ltmurnau]

Over the weekend, J. G. Ballard succumbed to illness caused by prostate cancer. He was 78. He had been ill for several years, as he revealed at the end of his very last book, Miracles of LifeJGB was a brilliant writer, a highly original thinker, my favourite author and an interesting man in his own right. No one saw the world just as he did, and he

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[sabotabby]

He was awesome, what I've read of him.

[ltmurnau]

He was all kinds of awesome, indeed.