J G Ballard dies aged 78

Oh. I just saw this on the front page and stopped in my tracks. Really shocked by this. My god,another legend gone! Jim you really had an effect on me with Drowned World, may you rest in peace!
 
It came like a sudden shock.

He was a new writer for me that i just started reading. Sad news.
 
Damn. This one hits me quite hard. I have enormous respect for Ballard's work; I see him as one of the major mythographers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries; someone who had a very perceptive analytical and clinical eye on the pulsebeat of many of our unadmitted drives as a society; a futurist -- in at least several senses of the word -- with a keen eye and an even keener sense of irony, yet with an intense core of humanitarianism to him; qualities which earned for him both a critical and popular acceptance far beyond either "cult" or genre....

His was a truly unique (and wonderful) voice, and his death will leave a notable hole in the firmament of modern and forward-looking literature. I feel I should say something like "we'll always have his body of work" (which, of course, is true), but given the uniqueness and richness of that work, I can't help but wish we had even more....
 
Yes, what can one say?......A major loss to world literature.

May he rest in peace.
 
Incidentally... has anyone watched the video contained in the link there? Quite interesting, and a good example of the sorts of concerns Ballard addressed throughout his career....
 
Another chunk of sf's foundation has been chipped away, and a significant one too. Hope to one day shake his hand on the eternal beach.
 
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