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The Terminal Collection: Criticism


For a continually-growing bibliography of all known writings about JGB, there's a great site out there managed by Umberto Rossi. Click here to check it out...




Luna Monthly
Number 23/24, New Jersey, May/June 1971
Contains an overview of JGB by Mark Purcell entitled J.G. Ballard: A Profile




Popular Arts Review
Volume 1, Number 1, Glasgow, Summer 1972
Contains a review of The Drowned World entitled "Landscape As Hero", by Nick Perry and Roy Wilkie, p30-44.




J.G. Ballard: The First 20 Years
Edited By David Pringle & James Goddard, Brans Head Books, UK, 1976




Earth Is The Alien Planet
By David Pringle, The Milford Series, Vol 26, Borgo Books, Los Angeles, October 1979




Billion Year Spree
By Brian Aldiss, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1973




J.G. Ballard
ReSearch No. 8/9, San Francisco, 1984




J.G. Ballard
By Peter Brigg, Starmount House, Washington, 1985
Uncorrected proof.




J.G. Ballard
By Peter Brigg, Starmount House, Washington, September, 1985
Softcover




J.G. Ballard
By Peter Brigg, Starmount House, Washington, September, 1985
Flawed copy -- four pages are not printed. Softcover.




Trillion Year Spree
By Brian Aldiss with David Wingrove, Paladin, London, 1986




Dream Makers
By Charles Platt, Xanadu, London, 1986
Platt is not a critic... this interesting book is a series of author profiles in which Platt recounts his travels to, and meetings with, writers such as JGB, Asminov, Pournelle, Hubbard, Budrys, Aldiss, Moorcock, Pohl, etc. etc.




Foundation
Edited by David Pringle, London, 1986
Contains the article, The Night Dream and the Glimmer of Light: J.G.Ballard's Hello America, by Peter Brigg




Book and Magazine Collector
London, August 1988
Contains a Mike Ashley essay, JG Ballard, Author of Empire Of The Sun, which traces JGB's career, as well as a "Complete UK and US Bibliography" showing then-current values for JGB first editions in fine condition.




Out of the Night and into the Dream
by Gregory Stephenson, Greenwood Press, 1991




Extrapolation Volume 35, Number 1, Kent State University Press, Spring, 1994
Contains the article, JG Ballard: Time Out Of Mind, by Peter Brigg





"The Angle Between Two Walls"
By Roger Luckhurst, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY, 1997




J.G. Ballard By Michel Delville, Northcote House, UK, 1998




Crash By Ian Sinclair, BFI Publications, London, 1999




J.G. Ballard By Andrzej Gasiorek, Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK, 2005




J.G. Ballard By Andrzej Gasiorek, Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK, 2005




Grave New World
By Dominika Oramus, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, 2007. Inscribed.