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 Ballard was born in Shanghai of English parents in 193O and lived there until he was fifteen. After moving to England, he was educated at Cambridge University before becoming an RAF pilot.
He also worked as an advert agency copywriter, encyclopaedia salesman and assistant editor of scientific journal Chemistry and Industry.
During the war he was interned by the Japanese in a civilian prison camp. He was repatriated in 1946, and after leaving school, read medicine at King's College, Cambridge. His first science fiction story was published in 1956.
He built up a dedicated following, particularly after Empire of The Sun was made into a film by Steven Spielberg in 1987. This semi-autobiographical novel tells the story of a boy's life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai, describing his experiences of starvation, survival and death marches.
Director David Cronenberg also brought Ballard's infamous book about the sexual desires stimulated by car crashes to the screen in the film Crash.
From the start he pioneered a new form of science fiction, and was the originator of the so-called 'New Wave' that challenged the American science fiction of the 1950's.
He believed that science fiction was the authentic literature of the Twentieth Century and described his work as "picturing the psychology of the future".
JG Ballard died in 2009, after a long battle with cancer. He was seventy-eight years old. [edit]
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