JG Ballard was born in the International Settlement in Shanghai prior to World War II, received some of his earliest education in Japanese prison camps, and eventually traveled through space and time to conduct violent autopsies of the Western psyche through an uncompromising form of science fiction. Best known for Crash, the Drowned World, and Empire of the Sun, he had been fighting prostate cancer since 2006. He was 79 years old.
Check out a short interview with the man after the break.
[Via NME]
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