RIP JG Ballard

British Cult Novelist JG Ballard has died as of last week. Ballard was best known for the nine sixties novel Empire of the Sun which was filmed by Steven Speilberg. He was the author of more than fifteen novels. Ballard grew up in Shanghai in the nineteen forties. His father was part of the British trade mission to China during the Japanese Occupation. Ballard was seventy eight when he died.