dream

[rone]

Mom had died (not really my mom because dream-me wasn't really me so i wasn't feeling any grief) so my brother (not Paul) and i spent the day taking care of post-mortem things with our stepdad, J. G. Ballard (none of whose books i've read; i blame reddragdiva for mentioning him recently), and at the end i invited him to move in with me and my brother (neither of us were married and dream-dad was long gone).

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[reddragdiva]

You need to, though I'm not sure where to recommend you start. A few short story collections might set you on the right track. Pick one with "The Voices Of Time" and you'll understand why JGB and drained swimming pools go together so well.

[oh6.livejournal.com]

There was a large collection published recently, The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard, but for a smaller collection, "The Voices of Time" is definitely a good story to start with. "Chronopolis" (the title story of an old collection) and "The Concentration City" also stuck in my mind.

[oh6.livejournal.com]

OH, and of course, there's "The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race"... and searching for it reveals that the above big collection is actually in 2 volumes, which I hadn't known when I got the first. Whoops.

[reddragdiva]

http://www.amazon.com/Voices-Time-J-G-Ballard/dp/0575401303

[reddragdiva]

Secondhand paperback collections are readily available in UK and Australia, dunno about US.