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...In his 2018 book A Conversation Larger than the Universe: Readings in Science Fiction and the Fantastic 1762-2017, antiquarian bookseller Henry Wessells outlines a history of science fiction through his...
...The fiction of writers such as William S Burroughs and JG Ballard seemed to offer an approach that gave the viewer a way in....
...Jamie Ballard’s debauched, pompous Wolsey is at his most human when he is, literally, stripped of power, removing his cardinal red robes to be left in beige undershorts....
...China’s largest diesel engine maker Weichai Power owns a stake in Ceres and Ballard....
...Rising demand for nickel — used in battery-powered cars — is prompting concerns about the disposal of waste created when it is mined, reports Henry Sanderson....
...It made its first investment in 2013, with a $4m stake in Canadian fuel cell provider Ballard Power Systems....
...And in November Weichai Power, China’s largest state-owned diesel engine maker, spent $184m on a 20 per cent stake in Ballard....
...On a clandestine assignment for Anne Boleyn’s daughter Elizabeth, Sansom’s wily lawyer is on the track of a savage murderer, the dark legacy of Henry VIII a shadow over the land....
...We were drinking tea in the kitchen of the Henry Dickens Community Centre, named after the great author’s grandson, a local councillor and a champion of public housing....
...Ballard’s words rang through my mind as I read journalist Lucy Mangan’s trip down memory lane, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading....
...“If the entire 20th century were to vanish in some huge calamity, it would be possible to reconstitute a large part of it from Paolozzi’s sculptures and screenprints,” J G Ballard claimed....
...Photographs by Murray Ballard...
...A yellow steel cradle supported the fragile timbers as they broke the surface for the first time since Henry VIII’s flagship went down with the loss of more than 500 men in 1545....
...A Crazed Flowering, Frameless Gallery, London The first young painters’ show of 2015 takes inspiration from JG Ballard’s dystopian vision in The Crystal World (1966), where a crystalline entity overwhelms...
...From Mr Tony Ballard....
...central romance is sensitively handled, and the chapters that deal with Lewis’s young son Edmund, who scampers around the city’s ruins with a band of “feral” boys, bring to mind no less a novel than JG Ballard...
...The first in a trilogy whose three parts are all being published this year, VanderMeer’s novel is a psycho-geographical tour de force, channelling Ballard and Lovecraft to instil the reader with a deep,...
...The approach Gordy borrowed from Henry Ford created a true hit factory by focusing obsessively, like a modern-day advocate of “six-sigma” disciplines for eliminating defects, on creating near-perfect end...
...Ballard and Judith Krantz....
...As does Sound Seam’s screening in a space adjoining the Medicine Now exhibition, which includes the skeleton with transposed skull and pelvis – an artwork by William Cobbing, inspired by JG Ballard’s book...
...Jamie Ballard also brings a conviction and intensity to his range of characters....
...These included Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer (1934), J.P. Donleavy’s The Ginger Man (1955) and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955)....
...If there is a big new project that needs promoting Olivier might suggest working on Henry V – for its models of inspirational leadership....
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