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By: “At dusk Starsky was still sitting in the cockpit of the Grand Torino like the pilot of an alien spacecraft.” « Everything Is Nice

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:05:50 +0000

[...] 1993 Lyle Hopwood imagined how the fabled JG Ballard novelisation of Alien might have looked. He has recently been the judge of a Ballardian competition: “Picture an [...]

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Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:29:46 +0000

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Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:31:05 +0000

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By: darr

darr — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:53:33 +0000

appreciated…

By: lbrat

lbrat — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:53:23 +0000

that Richard Prince interview……….complete fiction.

By: Lyle Hopwood

Lyle Hopwood — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:56:22 +0000

Alex:
“Shorter Ballard: Beauty and the Beast, in space.”
Excellent!

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:15:58 +0000

Shorter Ballard: Beauty and the Beast, in space. Would make a good entry for Wired ’s “sci-fi in six words” contest…

By: Supervert

Supervert — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 18:05:56 +0000

Nice…

By the way I happened to pick up a copy of the French fashion magazine Purple recently. It reproduces an interview that JGB did with artist Richard Prince in the mid 1960s:

http://www.purple.fr/fashion.php?p=92

Prince had been caught in a weird situation where he temporarily had no documentation proving his true citizenship and was bounced from international airport to international airport for a week. You can see why this would have intrigued Ballard.

By: FJ Torres

FJ Torres — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:42:17 +0000

Amazing. Made my day… Thanks!