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minor member of his family, who in due course will inherit a small share of his estate. 1988 SF Bay Area	Impu 1988 05 00
snake. Why are we so frightened of them unless we inherit the fear? I think one does inherit a set of	LFox 1991 01 30
them unless we inherit the fear? I think one does inherit a set of operating formulae which we apply in dreams	LFox 1991 01 30
But, also, sadly, genes play a big role; some people inherit good health and some don’t. Your daughter looks terrifically healthy	VVal 2003 00 00
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the age of the great reptiles, to study our biological inheritance. The point made is that if the climate of those	BHen 1971 05 00
wanted to look at our racial memory, our whole biological inheritance, the fact that we’re all several hundred million years old	BHen 1971 05 00
Silcock, produced by Michael Bartlett] "What If …?, 3: The Frankenstein Inheritance." BSil: JG Ballard, who coined the phrase "inner space" to	BSil 1979 09 22
not of sound mind" -- like, "He’s signing away his inheritance or something." Then the publicity manager gave me a certain	MPau 1987 00 00
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ganglia of the lower spine. The memories could either be inherited racial memories, dating back to our archaic ancestors; or personal	PWhi 1964 04 00
hard at these changes and be honest with himself. He’s inherited this beautiful tool, the 19th-century novel, capable of enormous sophistication	FKer 1970 11 12
to deal with violence in imaginative terms. And our whole inherited expertise for dealing with violence, our central nervous systems, our	FWhi 1971 10 00
run fast or to react quickly, our reflexes, all that inherited expertise is never used. We sit passively in cinemas watching	FWhi 1971 10 00
of New Orthodoxies emerging -- attitudes about "race", attitudes about "inherited intelligence", attitudes about "women’s lib", "woman’s place in the world	JSav 1978 08 00
view we have of reality by using the imagination. We’ve inherited large parts of our view of the world from our	RBro 1988 00 00
entertainment landscape of our lives. But we’ve got this huge inherited apparatus for coping with violence -- flight or fight, whatever	JVer 1988 06 00
It may be that time is a neuro-psychological structure we’ve inherited from the distant past along with other no longer needed	DPri 1990 03 00
tap something deep in your central nervous system. We obviously inherited through our genes a whole visual apparatus -- grids and	LFox 1991 01 30
lot of people, is in some way connected with this inherited perceptual apparatus that assigns a certain special value to flat	LFox 1991 01 30
of Toulouse Lautrec". They tell of his struggle against an inherited bone disease which turned him into a sort of dwarf	JDel 1991 07 13
of Shepperton for the past thirty years. But he has inherited from Shanghai a far less conventional sensibility than these outward	Book 1991 08 16
to be solitary, which is an unfortunate trait I think inherited from me, and they are experimenting with themselves as if	Shan 1991 09 25
that illusion of reality which the central nervous system has inherited from its past a new reality which the imaginative sectors	RSla 1992 00 00
sphere. You’ll be able to screen out not just dangerous, inherited diseases but you will be able to pick genes for	EGMF 1994 05 10
ongoing social critique -- you know, that modern SF had inherited its most important role from books like Nineteen Eighty-Four and	DPri 1996 04 00
sufficient will to have abolished the monarchy, House of Lords, inherited titles and the public schools in a full scale assault	DBro 1996 09 20
of the warders says "You’ll be back." There is no inherited human code that defines what I can do or think	MDer 2007 05 27
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is almost wholly fantasy. I’m not suggesting that we are inheritors of Wells’s mantle, but I feel that Wells is an	DPri 1984 09 23
quite accord with this notion that we are -- civilized inheritors of the whole enlightenment tradition, and that we live in	JNau 2008 01 31
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about the sources of my own imagination. It probably wouldn’t inhibit me, but it might make too explicit some of my	CEva 1971 11 09
INHIBITING.............................1
drivers the modern equivalent of the chastity belt, restricting and inhibiting. According to Evans and Ballard, we are particularly fascinated by	JRos 1968 05 19
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time, would seem to use the genre because some obscure inhibition prevents him from taking his own work seriously, rather than	PWhi 1964 04 00
a mode of psychopathic behaviour without any sort of moral inhibition at all. In fact, given the suffocating effect of the	GRev 2003 11 07
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Incidentally, I do not see machines as necessarily forbidding or inhuman. JGod: Your descriptions of sexual acts are written with an	JGod 1973 10 00
of insouciant eccentrics pursuing their own mad logic. "There’s nothing inhuman about my fiction," he says at one point. "It’s just	SMac 2003 09 06
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while saying the most vicious right-wing drivel -- messages completely inimical to the interests of the working-class viewers watching him. JGB	VVal 2004 11 23
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the possibilities of life." 1970 Harley Cokeliss interview [Harley Cokeliss’s initial treatment for his film, Crash! was based on an interview	HCok 1970 10 18
landscape." Ballard’s experiments with science-fiction began in 1957, when the initial Earth Satellite was lobbed into orbit. "For some reason", he	ITho 1991 09 21
DISCUSSION BETWEEN DAVID CRONENBERG AND JG BALLARD The introduction and initial questions were provided by Chris Rodley. Unfortunately a number of	CRDC 1996 11 10
cautionary tale aspect was not felt by you as an initial structure or reason for doing it? Because some people would	CRDC 1996 11 10
who had seen the film; it all came from his initial 'Beyond The Bounds Of Depravity'. Even with that I had	CRDC 1996 11 10
in 1996] Interview with JG Ballard Fine: What was your initial involvement with the project for Crash, the movie? JGB: About	Fine 1997 03 00
belatedly publishing this interview with JG Ballard from 1997. My initial questions appear immediately below and following this Ballard’s reply. 25	DKop 1997 10 02
one in Britain who had seen the film, to his initial 'Beyond The Bounds Of Perversity', 'Beyond The Bounds Of Depravity	DCro 1997 11 10
Atrocities: JG Ballard on Mondo films MGoo: What were your initial impressions of the films of Gualtiero Jacopetti (Mondo Cane, Mondo	MGoo 2006 00 00
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Crystal World. Drowned World is a very curious novel because initially it seems to be straightforward science-fiction, because you find the	CEva 1971 11 09
for one reason or another, and he doesn’t realize it. Initially he finds that his world is suddenly populated with strange	CEva 1971 12 30
small town, the castle on the top of the hill. Initially he makes fairly easy progress, he finds an inn where	CEva 1971 12 30
response to this shift of direction in science-fiction? JGB: Although initially it seemed as though the various "New Wave" writers of	CEva 1979 01 00
have influenced me at all, it was the Pop-Art artists, initially much later, when I wrote the Atrocity Exhibition stories. Writing	WFJK 1982 11 00
says he’s an optimist, which, given his penchant for apocalypses, initially seems unlikely but is nevertheless reassuring. He convinces me Reagan	ACar 1984 09 27
that I had pursued the medical career of which I initially dreamt, before starting to write, and that Empire of the	TCMJ 1985 05 00
than a participant. Why make him so consciously someone who, initially at any rate, observes rather than interacts? JGB: Well, he	DLov 1996 09 00
continuously, since it was published. Don’t get me wrong -- initially it was by European film companies. In money terms the	JCal 1997 00 00
it dawned on me that that was why I had initially been and was still so drawn to these paintings. Not	WFea 1999 03 24
in "New Worlds" and "Science Fantasy" in the mid-Fifties. What initially attracted you to the science-fiction genre? JGB: Science-fiction in the	SSha 2001 11 00
point I think that happens to the reader, as well. Initially, the first deaths, particularly the little coffins floating, are quite	JNau 2002 02 03
keeping society together. MFro: And this group of rebels is initially inspired by a mysterious doctor Gould, but led by the	MFro 2003 09 14
Markham goes in search of her killer and finds himself initially involved with a middle-class revolt in Chelsea Marina -- one	PDod 2003 09 16
war. I don’t think that’s true in America. GRev: It initially was here, but they shifted rather quickly to it being	GRev 2003 11 07
has been a significant inspiration for me. I came here initially because of the film studios, thinking I might get some	MWal 2006 09 09
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heroes are always anonymous figures; usually their names are just initials. They’re surrounded by enormous bureaucratic systems, by the huge industrial	CEva 1971 12 30
the young Jim Graham (which is, incidentally, what the author’s initials JG stand for) is separated from his parents. "I wanted	APir 1988 01 00
what happens to him when he grows up." Ballard, whose initials stand for James Graham, also studied medicine as a young	JFal 1988 04 01
more than writers anyway -- do tend to use their initials, until they become media figures. Even quite famous scientists are	CBig 1991 10 00
figures. Even quite famous scientists are still known by their initials, certainly in the scientific literature. And I have always admired	CBig 1991 10 00
INITIATE...............................1
Hutton inquiry. Do you anticipate that the Hutton report will initiate any serious moves towards curbing the media-political machine? Or do	JeBa 2004 01 00
INITIATED..............................1
flood at the same time of imagery that we haven’t initiated or called for, that pour out of our television sets	JWei 2005 00 00
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to someone else? JGB: YES Do you usually take the initiative in making new friends? JGB: NO Would you call yourself	SSco 1983 00 00
has never bothered him. "Young people should seize an imaginative initiative," he counsels. And he has always nourished this audience. When	PRam 1988 04 00
just a matter of timetables. Women had to take the initiative with me out here." The female characters in the book	PPic 1991 09 22
to provide his own clues, he’s had to seize the initiative and stage these dramas. Now it’s too early to say	JWei 2005 00 00
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palm trees, bending amiably over a reclining aluminium lawn chair, inject the only note of fantasy into an otherwise quite normal-looking	TFri 1984 12 00
this V-8 engine attached to a huge grain blower, and inject gasoline into it. After it starts burning, you blow it	MPau 1987 00 00
manufacturers, but the consumers, begin to look for something to inject a little more excitement. And my fear is that people	PDod 2006 09 15
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from the domestic world, like a huge dose of Novocaine injected into reality in the same way that a dentist calms	TFri 1984 12 00
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these kids -- are smoking it, aren’t they? They’re not injecting it. I don’t know. I’m an outsider. The AIDS thing	GRVV 1985 05 00
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most common method of committing suicide was, I think, drug injection. Pretty simple -- put a gram of morphine into yourself	AJVV 1982 10 29
personally I find my work overly moralistic -- a large injection of decadence would do it a world of good. Word	Word 1985 09 00
was killed by the nuclear test gives him that booster injection of thanatos which he needs to be a Ballard protagonist	WSel 1994 09 08
this way because he was poor. Now, with the sudden injection of cash, a new theory was called for. He must	SMac 2003 09 06
suburbs -- in the British suburbs there’s always been an injection of Americana. JGB: People have got more money there. They	HKun 2007 10 31
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humour remains underrated, and continues to delight with suitably placed injections of wry irony. What humour there is in 'The Atrocity	GDad 1979 11 02
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in the late century have got used to. But Ballard injects not just a note, but a whole symphony of optimism	LMac 1988 03 14