J. G. Ballard

Empire of the Sun is a 1984 novel by J. G. Ballard which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Like Ballard's earlier short story, "The Dead Time", it is essentially fiction but draws extensively on Ballard's experiences in World War II. The name of the novel is …

The Day of Creation is a 1987 novel by J. G. Ballard.

Crash is a novel by English author J. G. Ballard, first published in 1973. It is a story about symphorophilia or car-crash sexual fetishism: its protagonists become sexually aroused by staging and participating in real car-crashes. It was a highly controversial novel: one publisher's reader returned the verdict "This …