Author JG Ballard Dies at Age 78

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JG Ballard, author of Empire of the Sun and Crash, has died at the age of 78 after a long battle with prostate cancer.

The English author spent three years in a Shanghai internment camp, which would form the basis of Empire of the Sun, later made into a movie starring a young Christian Bale. Ballard later joined the RAF, and studied medicine for a while before switching to literature.

He wrote 15 books, including the bleak and deviant Crash, which was filmed (and Canadianized) by David Cronenburg.

Also see Remembering JG Ballard.