“The superheroes of the future will be people who’ll challenge this condominium of boredom, and we’ll find that our Bonnies and Clydes will emerge to challenge the suburban values.”
–J.G. Ballard, JGB News, 1993
“I never said we should shy away from or retreat from technology. I thought that maybe we should embrace these apparently dangerous ideas and run them down, pursue them to the end.”
–J.G. Ballard, Blitz, 1987
“I visualized a series of imaginary pictures I might take of her: in various sexual acts, her legs supported by sections of complex machine tools, pulleys and trestles; with her physical education instructor, coaxing this conventional young man into the new parameters of her body, developing a sexual expertise that would be an exact analogue of the other skills created by the multiplying technologies of the twentieth century.”
–J.G. Ballard, Crash, 1973