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Ryan Berger
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One interesting observation Ballard had was that the reputation of SF's new wave was that they had delusions of literary grandeur and were too self-serious when in reality the opposite was true-- the people who were running the fanzines, policing the genre's fences, and writing trite genre slop were the ones who were fanatics and overall unpleasant to be around at conventions.
Bringing this up for no reason!
— Jul 06, 2024 08:18PM
Bringing this up for no reason!
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Ryan Berger
is on page 241 of 400
I remain blown away by this. Maybe the best collection of essays I've ever read. Ballard is also revealing himself as the most versatile writers certainly in my library. He could do anything.
— Jul 11, 2024 08:16AM
Ryan Berger
is on page 132 of 400
In the Voyeur's Gaze - One of the best essays I've ever read about an artist (and one of my favorites, Edward Hopper) that connects brilliantly to the present day of our great American loneliness.
Fuck. IS Ballard my new favorite writer of all time???
— Jun 21, 2024 06:23AM
Fuck. IS Ballard my new favorite writer of all time???
Ryan Berger
is on page 84 of 400
"It is the inflexibility of this huge reductive machine we call reality that provokes infant and madman alike, and in the cataclysm story the science fiction writer joins company with them, using his imagination to describe the infinite alternatives to reality which nature itself has provided incapable of inventing. This celebration of life is at the heart of science fiction."
— Jun 04, 2024 10:00AM
Ryan Berger
is on page 19 of 400
"I believe" is as tremendous a piece of writing as it was billed as but I don't think it's right to call it an essay at all. It's pretty obviously a poem. Maybe the most important poem in all of Science Fiction.
— May 23, 2024 08:49AM
