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J.G. Ballard dies at 78; British science fiction writer
![J.G. Ballard, one of the most inventive of the new wave of British science fiction writers to emerge in the 1960s who was best known for the autobiographical novel "Empire of the Sun," died Sunday, his agent said. He was 78.](http://www.latimes.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2009-04/46386988-19204505.jpg "J.G. Ballard, one of the most inventive of the new wave of British science fiction writers to emerge in the 1960s who was best known for the autobiographical novel "Empire of the Sun,\" died Sunday, his agent said. He was 78.")
Times Staff And Wire ReportsJ.G. Ballard, one of the most inventive of the new wave of British science fiction writers to emerge in the 1960s who was best known for the autobiographical novel "Empire of the Sun," died Sunday, his agent said. He was 78. He had been ill "for...Tags: Children, Science, Death, David Cronenberg, Empire of the Sun (movie)
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Visionary with a sharp edge
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIf J.G. Ballard -- the visionary British novelist who died Sunday of prostate cancer at age 78 -- ends up being remembered, it will likely be as a science fiction writer who aspired to use genre as a vehicle for art. That's true enough, in a certain...Tags: Science, Death, David Cronenberg, French Literature, Empire of the Sun (movie)
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Giving Angela Carter her due
By Richard Rayner "A good writer can make you believe time stands still. Yet the end of all stories, even if the writer forbears to mention it, is death," wrote the English writer Angela Carter, who died 16 years ago this month. At the time Carter was...Tags: Murder, Colleges and Universities, U.S. Postal Service, Movies, Elizabeth I
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Ground level
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer| This is the first in an occasional series of walking tours that The Times' architecture critic will be taking with writers, artists, designers and others who see the L.A. cityscape in unusual or provocative ways. On an L.A. wavelength * To urban blogger...Tags: Allen Ginsberg, North Carolina, Architecture, Road Transportation, Colleges and Universities
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Duke Elric: A cross between Conan and Camus
![Maybe it's the books we read when we're young that stick with us the longest. That's the time when books not only excite us, but seem to tell us about ourselves and our futures. As a teenager I read (wallowed in and feasted upon, really) Tolkien, Evelyn Waugh, Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, "Great Expectations" and "David Copperfield," "Crime and Punishment," "The Great Gatsby," P.G. Wodehouse and Kafka. A predictably unstructured and non-academic bag, I guess. I also read, with mounting glee, and seized from different corners of the bookstore when my mother wasn't watching, the paperbacks of Michael Moorcock, especially those concerning the doomed prince Elric.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-04/46470603-24145501.gif "Maybe it's the books we read when we're young that stick with us the longest. That's the time when books not only excite us, but seem to tell us about ourselves and our futures. As a teenager I read (wallowed in and feasted upon, really) Tolkien, Evelyn Waugh, Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, "Great Expectations\" and \"David Copperfield,\" \"Crime and Punishment,\" \"The Great Gatsby,\" P.G. Wodehouse and Kafka. A predictably unstructured and non-academic bag, I guess. I also read, with mounting glee, and seized from different corners of the bookstore when my mother wasn't watching, the paperbacks of Michael Moorcock, especially those concerning the doomed prince Elric.")
Maybe it's the books we read when we're young that stick with us the longest. That's the time when books not only excite us, but seem to tell us about ourselves and our futures. As a teenager I read (wallowed in and feasted upon, really) Tolkien, Evelyn...Tags: California, Juvenile Delinquency, Death, Jane Austen, Dashiell Hammett
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Robert Silverberg, science fiction elder statesman
Right about then, the Age of Aquarius seemed to be reaching an apocalyptic conclusion: Amid campus riots, a contentious war and political assassinations, it was hard not to feel fatalistic. And Robert Silverberg, a New York writer who'd recently...Tags: Joe Haldeman, Science, Superman (fictional character), Ray Bradbury, Science Fiction (genre)
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'Pop Apocalypse' by Lee Konstantinou
Pop Apocalypse A Possible Satire Lee Konstantinou Harper Perennial: 292 pp., $13.99 paper It doesn't take a paranoid mind to fret over our state of hyper-marketing. Every Gatorade we buy at Vons, every Bed Bath & Beyond card we've registered for,...Tags: Marshall McLuhan, Crimes, Barnes & Noble, Inc., Berkeley (Alameda, California), Marketing
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Crash
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday March 21, 1997 A few years ago a handwritten sign was spotted outside a theater in one of Manhattan's more dismal neighborhoods. "Now!" it proclaimed, "The First Bondage Film With a Believable Story Line!" History does not tell us whether the...Tags: Movies, Steven Spielberg, David Lynch, NC-17 Rated Movies, Entertainment
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