Apr 20 2009
JG Ballard, author of scores of short stories and fifteen novels including Empire of the Sun (based on his childhood in a Japanese prison camp in China), has died aged 78 after a long illness.
It was one of the worst speeches I ever heard ... when a simple apology was all that was required.
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