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

Simon Sellars & Dan O'Hara

First published 2012
Publisher Fourth Estate
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Cover art Jerry Bauer
Pages xxiii+503
Price £25.00
ISBN 9780007454853

At least one interview herein has been edited from its original form - the 1988 Jon Savage/Search and Destroy interview has a brief discussion of the works of Olaf Stapledon, but that exchange is not included in the version included in this book.


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Year Reviewer Publication
2015 Colin Steele SF Commentary, #89

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 The New Science Fiction George MacBeth & J. G. Ballard Interview
10 Munich Round Up — Interview with J. G. Ballard uncredited & J. G. Ballard Interview
14 An Interview with J. G. Ballard Jannick Storm & J. G. Ballard Interview
22 Sci-Fi Seer Lynn Barber & J. G. Ballard Interview
36 Speculative Illustrations: Eduardo Paolozzi in Conversation with J. G. Ballard Frank Whitford & J. G. Ballard & Eduardo Paolozzi Interview
48 J. G. Ballard Peter Linnett & J. G. Ballard Interview
56 How to Face Doomsday Without Really Trying Carol Orr & J. G. Ballard Interview
72 Crash and Learn Robert Louit & J. G. Ballard Interview
78 Interview with J. G. Ballard Philippe R. Hupp & J. G. Ballard Interview
81 An Interview with J. G. Ballard James Goddard & David Pringle & J. G. Ballard Interview
99 'It Would Be a Mistake to Write About the Future' Jörg Krichbaum & Rein A. Zondergeld & J. G. Ballard Interview
106 J. G. Ballard Jon Savage & J. G. Ballard Interview
121 The Space Age Is Over Christopher Evans & J. G. Ballard Interview
132 An Interview with J. G. Ballard Werner Fuchs & Joachim Körber & J. G. Ballard Interview
146 Interview with JGB V. Vale & J. G. Ballard Interview
170 Ninety Questions from the Eyckman Personality Quotient Sam Scoggins & J. G. Ballard Interview
181 The Art of Fiction J. G. Ballard & Thomas Frick (interviewer) Interview
199 Against Entropy Peter Ronnov-Jessen & J. G. Ballard Interview
211 The Past Tense of J. G. Ballard Tony Cartano & Maxim Jakubowski & J. G. Ballard Interview
224 Future Now Solveig Nordlund & J. G. Ballard Interview
231 A Conversation with J. G. Ballard James Verniere & J. G. Ballard Interview
241 Myths of the Near Future Rosetta Brooks & J. G. Ballard Interview
248 An Interview with J. G. Ballard Jeremy Lewis & J. G. Ballard Interview
263 The Visitor Phil Halper & Lard Lyer & J. G. Ballard Interview
274 Memento: J. G. Ballard Joan Blakewell & J. G. Ballard Interview
283 Don't Crash Lukas Barr & J. G. Ballard Interview
291 Empire of the Surreal Nicholas Zurbrugg & J. G. Ballard Interview
299 Conversations: J. G. Ballard Will Self & J. G. Ballard Interview
320 'Kafka with unlimited Chicken Kiev': J. G. Ballard on Cocaine Nights Damien Love & J. G. Ballard Interview
328 Crash Talk: J. G. Ballard in Conversation with David Cronenberg Chris Rodley & J. G. Ballard & David Cronenberg Interview
339 J. G. Ballard's Wild Ride Mark Dery & J. G. Ballard Interview
349 J. G. Ballard on William Burroughs' Naked Truth Richard Kadrey & Suzanne Stefanac & J. G. Ballard Interview
354 Russia on My Mind Zinovy Zinik & J. G. Ballard Interview
364 J. G. Ballard's Cinema in the Slipstream of Discontent Iain Sinclair & J. G. Ballard Interview
375 'Technology is always a facilitator': J. G. Ballard on Super-Cannes John Gray & J. G. Ballard Interview
383 'Nothing Is Real, Everything Is Fake' Hans Ulrich Obrist & J. G. Ballard Interview
397 'All we've got left is our own psychopathology' Chris Hall & J. G. Ballard Interview
407 Reading the Signs J. G. Ballard & Jeannette Baxter Interview
415 'Dangerous bends ahead. Slow down': J. G. Ballard on Kingdom Come Toby Litt & J. G. Ballard Interview
431 'Rattling other people's cages' Simon Sellars & J. G. Ballard Interview
443 An Exhibition of Atrocities: J. G. Ballard on Mondo Films Mark Goodall & J. G. Ballard Interview
447 'Not entirely a journey without maps': J. G. Ballard on the Atrocity Archives Jonathan Weiss & J. G. Ballard Interview
463 Historian of the Future Hari Kunzru & J. G. Ballard Interview
473 'Up a kind of sociological Amazon': J. G. Ballard on Miracles of Life James Naughtie & J. G. Ballard Interview
485 Afterword: Script-Writing the Future Dan O'Hara Essay
xi Introduction: A Launchpad for Other Explorations Simon Sellars Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Extreme Metaphors: Selected Interviews with J. G. Ballard, 1967-2008 Cover 2014 Fourth Estate Trade Paperback Nonfiction xxiii+503