Jonathan Lethem on JG Ballard, in tomorrow's New York Times:
Ballard in a grain of sand — the visual poetry of ruin;
a syntax scientifically precise yet surreally oversaturated; and the convergence
of the technological and the natural worlds into a stage where human life flits
as a violent, temporary shadow. Yet Ballard at his best never seems to load the
dice against humanity. He merely rolls them.
JGB's Collected Stories are about to be published, finally, in the US, in a new edition.
You can download a .pdf file of Ballard's "The Drowned Giant" by right-clicking here.