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“Der Visionär des Phantastischen”: An Interview with J.G. Ballard

By Dan O'Hara • May 4th, 2008 •

Category: Germany, Lead Story, Michael Moorcock, New Worlds, Philip K. Dick, William Burroughs, drugs, media landscape, politics, punk, science fiction, sexual politics, space relics, speed & violence, surrealism, technology, urban revolt

Another installment in Dan O’Hara’s re-translations of archival German Ballard interviews: a 1982 conversation conducted by Werner Fuchs and Joachim Körber.


‘It would be a mistake to write about the future’: J.G. Ballard in Conversation with Jörg Krichbaum and Rein A. Zondergeld

By Dan O'Hara • Mar 23rd, 2008 •

Category: Freud, Germany, Michael Moorcock, New Worlds, Shanghai, William Burroughs, archival, dystopia, film, psychology, science fiction, sexual politics, short stories, surrealism, utopia

This is the second of Dan O’Hara’s re-translations of JGB interviews originally published in German. This one dates from 1976, and in it Ballard provides comment on Russian writers and explains how film technique infiltrates and influences his own writing.


Munich Round-Up: Interview with J.G. Ballard

By Dan O'Hara • Mar 15th, 2008 •

Category: Germany, WWII, archival, biology, deep time, entropy, enviro-disaster, inner space, science fiction, surrealism

Dan O’Hara has re-translated three interviews with JGB, originally published in German in the 60s, in which Ballard provides absorbing insight into his enviro-disaster trilogy: The Drowned World, The Drought and The Crystal World.