New Wave icon J.G. Ballard dead at 78: "
On Sunday April 19, 2009, after a protracted and courageous battle with prostate cancer, James Graham Ballard succumbed to his disease at the age of 78. His most recent publication at the time of his passing was his autobiography, Miracles of Life (2008), the book in which he first revealed his terminal condition.
But of course it is for his science fiction and his brilliantly unclassifiable, surrealistically mimetic and prophetic contemporary fiction that Ballard was best known, and will continue to be honored (despite US publishers shamefully neglecting to offer him American editions recently).
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