Ballard's fiction was beautifully constructed, and highly complex.
Have you got the complete short stories? Fascinating to see him develop from the clumsy sci fi of his earliest work, through to stuff like Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan, to the formal narratives of his late work.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 27 Mar 2013, 19:56, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

I think I told you to buy the short stories.

( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Wed 27 Mar 2013, 19:58, Reply)

I got the short stories years ago.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 27 Mar 2013, 19:59, Reply)

Pretentious prick

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 27 Mar 2013, 19:58, Reply)

you're a pygmy.
Intellectually as well as heightwise.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 27 Mar 2013, 20:00, Reply)

Says someone shorter than me.
Tit.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 27 Mar 2013, 20:02, Reply)

not according to Tangles

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 27 Mar 2013, 20:06, Reply)

says the only man on the board shorter than him.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 27 Mar 2013, 20:04, Reply)

says the man reading ballard

( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 27 Mar 2013, 20:06, Reply)