WRITERS & BOOKS
Ben Samuel
- May 5
- 4 min
JG Ballard "What I Believe"
‘What I Believe’ is a prose poem originally published in French in Science Fiction #1 in January 1984.
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Ben Samuel
- Apr 28
- 10 min
Bruno Schulz "trying to occur"
The life and imagination of Bruno Schulz including drawings, a film of the mural discovery and a newly discovered short story by Schulz
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1
- 1 min
"Advertisements" by J.G Ballard
"I created a series of advertisements which I placed in various publications..Of course I was advertising my own conceptual ideas,
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1
- 1 min
Experimental text collages by JG Ballard
Four Text Collages (Project for a New Novel), by J. G. Ballard. Experimental text collages by Ballard intended as a condensed novel.
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1
- 1 min
Philip K Dick's bizarre delusions and paranoid fantasies
While recovering from drugs administered due to an impacted wisdom tooth, Philip K Dick began to have bizarre delusions.
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1
- 1 min
Philip K. Dick discussing science fiction
Philip K. Dick interview (1977). Here he discusses how science fiction is viewed on a bottom rung of genres.
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1
- 1 min
Infernal Dictionary (1818) Jacques Collin de Plancy
Infernal Dictionary (1818) by Jacques Collin de Plancy is a book of demonology it describes demons and organises them into hierarchies.
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1
- 1 min
JG Ballard returns to Shanghai
In 1991 JG Ballard returned to Shanghai to his childhood home and to Lunghua Interment camp.
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1
- 0 min
JG Ballard Discusses English Society In The 1950's
Interview with JG Ballard Discussing English Society In The 1950's
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1
- 1 min
Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Old Horse'
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) died of a heart-attack 7th July. Shortly before his death he looked back on his life and drew this cartoon
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1
- 1 min
A compendium of demons and magic (Around 1775)
A compendium of demons and magic with the enticing warning "Do not touch me" inscribed on the title page.
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