450 pages of sheer blasphemy, the only thing left to do is find a brave publisher.

Facebook page for our fiction project, “Novelty Theater”:

 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Novelty-Theater-by-Allen-and-Jim-Richardson/264250088092

Become a fan if you … are one. Warning: adult situations.

One of the many features I enjoy about Wikipedia is its selection of lists of fictional things, like an archaeology of the imagination. Here is Wikipedia’s list of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and particles, an exquisite waste of time.

…Related, also scavenged from the Wikipedia: the documented use of the elements of the Periodic Table in comic books.

Just read the J.G. Ballard story “The Object of the Attack”,  (from the book War Fever) which features a fantastic sequence where someone builds an Ames Room to escape from an insane asylum. Good stuff!! As a science fiction writer, Ballard writes less about outer space than about our “concept of space”…

Literary agent wanted to help market our Burroughsian farce of a Ballardian science fiction novel, “Novelty Theater.” Also: “High School War Stories,” “Gonzo Science II”. Email with your tips and pointers. Thank you.

Author J.G. Ballard has died at 78. He was much admired and respected here at Gonzo Science.

Ballard would eventually be deemed worthy of his own adjective, “Ballardian,” defined by the Collins English Dictionary as “resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in Ballard’s novels & stories, esp. dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes & the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments.”

He will be missed.

It’s been great knowing you all.  I love each and everyone of you beyond any words I could possibly express verbally or mentally.  I believe each and everyone of us is here for absolutely no purpose, whatsoever; and for that very reason, I consider everyone who has played a part in making who “I” am to be that much more significant.  I would especially like to give a shout out to my parents, all the friends I had growing up, my friends in the Twin Cities, and my good friends here in the Twin Ports.  When you look out at the stars at night, it’s really hard not to think about how goddamn unimportant everything we do is.  I love you.  Oh, and by the way, you can keep up on the end of it all here.

I found this article linked to over at The Field, itself located in our top links.

This adaptation of JG Ballard’s ‘Home-The Enormous Space’ is more terrifying than any slasher flick.

JG Ballard, the Oracle of Shepperton. A bizarre tribute.

Courtesy of The Ballardian is an adaptation of an older JG Ballard story ‘Minus One’. A little clunky and on the wordy side, it’s nonetheless a classic Ballard piece.

Slightly dated story about the gun on the international space station.

Astronauts aren’t supposed to go loco but I think we all remember the recent whole love-triangle diaper murders. No one was murdered but there were diapers. You know what I’m talking about.

Gotta watch out for signs of space madness because the Russians have a fucking piece on the motherfucking space station.

Marvin Heemeyer, Patron Saint of the Mechanized Rampage

More here and here.

Ruined Statues of Liberty.

because thats the sort of thing you can do with a weblog.

J.G. Ballard short based on his novel “Crash,” starring J.G. Ballard himself.

Two of our favorites around here.

The Ballardian.

William S. Burroughs web archive.