Ballardian

English Etymology From en Ballard ian. Adjective Of or pertaining to the characteristic fictional milieu of author J. G. Ballard (1930–2009); typically, focusing on surreal violence as inherent in modernity. en Wellsian en 1993 Nicholas Ruddick Ultimate Island: On the Nature of British Science Fiction Praeger Pub Text Yet the sense of evil—which seems to motivate the Christian allusions in Golding, as though evil were what was missing from the Wellsian world picture—is nowhere present in the Ballardian text. en Roof Of Your Car The Streets Computers and Blues 2011 Like some Ballardian nightmare from 1986 / Let the satellite navigation system guide us to the Styx en 2012 Iain Sinclair Ghost Milk: Recent Adventures Among the Future Ruins of London on the Eve of the Olympics Farrar, Straus and Giroux 9781466820111 The purest Ballardian set, poised chronologically between High-Rise and Millennium People, was an estate on the edge of the recently created Barrier Park (architectural planting in the deep trenches of an old dock). en 2013 Paul Morley The North: (And Almost Everything In It) Bloomsbury Publishing 9781408834008 However space age, dislocated and alienated his music became, however Ballardian, surreal and abstract his conceptual concerns, he remained fixed in a northern time and space. en-GB Alex Preston Submission by Michel Houellebecq review – satire that’s more subtle than it seems The Guardian 2015-09-08 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/08/submission-michel-houellebecq-review-satire-islamic-france 0261-3077 The very Ballardian violence comes from rogue Salafist jihadists and their far-right counterparts, the Nativists (imagine the EDL with brains); the unpredictability comes from the fact that, as the votes are counted, Marine Le Pen and her Front National are neck-and-neck with a fictional party, the Muslim Brotherhood, led by a shrewd and charismatic grocer’s son, Mohammed Ben Abbes (the Brotherhood appears to be loosely based on Nagib Azergui’s UDMF). en eponyms