Ballard wrote some of the most surprising and creative short stories I’ve ever laid eyes on. And he remained relevant and interesting right to his last novel.
I’ll miss him.

A new short story titled Induction has been published in the plucky first edition of Verb-ate-him literary journal.
Induction is at once a brutal introduction to the blandness of the contemporary office space and a sneaky glimpse into the inner lives of the  people clacking at their keyboards. It goes without saying that not everything is as it appears.
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With recent changes to the site, we are again able to offer a free short story download for anyone who subscribes to web site updates.
Best of all, the story now on the free list is the ever popular Hemmingway. The story was originally published as a web-based interactive ‘e-novel’ way back in 2002 after receiving [...]

Ah, how nice is this. I discovered only the other day that they created more episodes of the radio series The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, ones that follow the third, fourth, and fifth books in the series. I’m a bit behind the times apparently. They were done seven years ago. In my defense, I’ve [...]