Comments on: Seattle and Canada. Ballard & Pynchon. http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2009/08/08/seattle-and-canada-ballard-pynchon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seattle-and-canada-ballard-pynchon Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:32:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: MarcL http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2009/08/08/seattle-and-canada-ballard-pynchon/comment-page-1/#comment-20145 MarcL Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:28:51 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2009/08/08/seattle-and-canada-ballard-pynchon/#comment-20145 Glad you liked the Ballard memoir...it's odd, I was leafing through Lot 49 yesterday, thinking about rereading it along with his new one, Inherent Vice. I started reading Ballard really young--before I discovered genre sf, he had already warped my mind. I was fascinated with subliminal advertising when i was a kid, thanks to having read "The Subliminal Man." It turned up in a textbook in a "Multimedia" class I had in high school, but I had already encountered it years before: http://www.searchlores.org/opr0207B.htm Glad you liked the Ballard memoir…it’s odd, I was leafing through Lot 49 yesterday, thinking about rereading it along with his new one, Inherent Vice. I started reading Ballard really young–before I discovered genre sf, he had already warped my mind. I was fascinated with subliminal advertising when i was a kid, thanks to having read “The Subliminal Man.” It turned up in a textbook in a “Multimedia” class I had in high school, but I had already encountered it years before:

http://www.searchlores.org/opr0207B.htm

]]> By: Mac Tonnies http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2009/08/08/seattle-and-canada-ballard-pynchon/comment-page-1/#comment-20136 Mac Tonnies Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:16:28 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2009/08/08/seattle-and-canada-ballard-pynchon/#comment-20136 I'm a big fan of "The Unlimited Dream Company," one of Ballard's lesser-known novels. Wild imagery. I’m a big fan of “The Unlimited Dream Company,” one of Ballard’s lesser-known novels. Wild imagery.

]]> By: Rudy http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2009/08/08/seattle-and-canada-ballard-pynchon/comment-page-1/#comment-20129 Rudy Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:42:00 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2009/08/08/seattle-and-canada-ballard-pynchon/#comment-20129 Necromancer, thanks for the tip. I found a link for<a href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article6160194.ece" rel="nofollow"> Moorcock's obit of Ballard</a>. Necromancer, thanks for the tip. I found a link for Moorcock’s obit of Ballard.

]]> By: The Necromancer http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2009/08/08/seattle-and-canada-ballard-pynchon/comment-page-1/#comment-20127 The Necromancer Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:13:19 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2009/08/08/seattle-and-canada-ballard-pynchon/#comment-20127 I love Ballard...Michael Moorcock wrote a absolutely brilliant obit in the <i>Times</i> I remember reading on a <i>banlieu</i> train in Paris in April. Seemed the perfect setting for his ode to Ballard's masterful dreamscapes of post-industrial nothingness. And <i>The Crying of Lot 49</i> is one of my favorites. Pynchon here acts the part of visionary speculative fiction writer, anticipating the emergence of the Silicon Valley archetype long before it really takes shape. I love Ballard…Michael Moorcock wrote a absolutely brilliant obit in the Times I remember reading on a banlieu train in Paris in April. Seemed the perfect setting for his ode to Ballard’s masterful dreamscapes of post-industrial nothingness.

And The Crying of Lot 49 is one of my favorites. Pynchon here acts the part of visionary speculative fiction writer, anticipating the emergence of the Silicon Valley archetype long before it really takes shape.

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