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realthog ([personal profile] realthog) wrote2009-04-19 03:34 pm

damn


J.G. Ballard died this morning. It feels strangely like the passing of an age. Too many of the good people die before their time.


[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2009-04-21 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)

I must have read that one too: I was reading New Worlds avidly in those years. And getting the nicest, most constructive and helpful rejection letters from Mike Moorcock et al. whenever I submitted!

[identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com 2009-04-21 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
It was, I believe, one of the Vermilion Sands stories.

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2009-04-22 11:56 am (UTC)(link)

Oh, in that case I certainly read it, although I don't recall it particularly.