J. G. Ballard died yesterday. He'd been living with cancer for a couple of years, and if I do the math I see that he was almost 80, so it wasn't exactly premature.
I've just been taking a quick look at the Google results, and most of the American news obits lede by referencing him as "author of Empire of the Sun." The English sources seem to generally lead with something like "visionary" or "prophet" and often don't mention any specific works. -- eric scoles ([email protected]) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
