Extreme Metaphors. Selected Interviews with J.G. Ballard, 1967-2008

Simon Sellars - Introdution: A Launchpad for Other Explorations xi Acknowledgements xxi Biographies xxiii 1967: George MacBeth. The New Science Fiction 1 1968: Uncredited. Munich Round Up - Interview with J.G. Ballard 10 1968: Jannick Storm. An Interview with J.G. Ballard 14 1970: Lynn Barber. Sci-fi Seer 22 1971: Frank Whitford. Speculative Illustrations: Eduardo Paolozzi in Conversation with J.G. Ballard 36 1973: Peter Linnett. J.G. Ballard 48 1974: Carol Orr. How to Face Doomsday without Really Trying 56 1974: Robert Louit. Crash & Learn 72 1975: Philippe R. Hupp. Interview with J.G. Ballard 78 1975: James Goddard an David Pringle. An Interview with J.G. Ballard 81 1976: Jörg Kirchbaum & Rein A. Zondergeld. 'It would be a mistake to write about the future' 99 1978: Jon Savage. J.G. Ballard 106 1979: Christopher Evans. The Space Age is Over 121 1982: Werner Fuchs & Joachim Körber. An Interview with J.G. Ballard 132 1982: V. Vale. Interview with JGB 146 1983: Sam Scoggins. Ninety Questions from the Eyckman Personality Quotient 170 1984: Thomas Frick. The Art of Fiction 181 1984: Peter Rønnov-Jessen. Against Entropy 199 1985: Tony Cartano and Maxim Jakubowski. The Past Tense of J.G. Ballard 211 1986: Solveig Nordlund. Future Now 224 1988: James Verniere. A Conversation with J.G. Ballard 231 1988: Rosetta Brooks. Myths of the Near Future 241 1991: Jeremy Lewis. An Interview with J.G. Ballard 248 1992: Phil Halper and Lard Lyer. The Visitor 263 1993: Joan Bakewell. Memento: J.G. Ballard 274 1994: Lukas Barr. Don't Crash 283 1995: Nicholas Zurbrugg. Empire of the Surreal 291 1995: Will Self. Conversations: J.G. Ballard 299 1996: Damien Love. 'Kafka with unlimited Chicken Kiev': J.G. Ballard on Cocaine Nights 320 1996: Chris Rodley. Crash Talk: J.G. Ballard in Covnersation with David Cronenberg 328 1997: Mark Dery. J.G. Ballard's Wild Ride 339 1997: Richard Kadrey & Suzanne Stefanac. J.G. Ballard on William S. Burroughs' Naked Truth 349 1998: Zinovy Zinik. Russia on My Mind 356 1999: Iain Sinclair. J.G. Ballard's Cinema in the Slipstream of Discontent 364 2000: John Gray. 'Technology is always a facilitator': J.G. Ballard on Super-Cannes 374 2003: Hans Ulrich Obrist. 'Nothing is real, everything is fake' 383 2003: Chris Hall. 'All we've got left is our own psychopathology': J.G. Ballard on Millennium People 396 2004: Jeannette Baxter. Reading the Signs 407 2006: Toby Litt. 'Dangerous bends ahead. Slow down': J.G. Ballard on Kingdom Come 415 2006: Simon Sellars. 'Rattling other people's cages' 431 2006: Mark Goodall. An Exhibition of Atrocities: J.G. Ballard on Mondo Films 443 2006: Jonathan Weiss. 'Not entirely a journey without maps': J.G. Ballard on The Atrocity Exhibition 447 2007: Hari Kunzru. Historian of the Future 463 2008: James Naughtie. 'Up a kind of sociological Amazon': J.G. Ballard on Miracles of Life 473 Dan O'Hara. Afterword: Script-writing the Future 485