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The Vermilion Sands stories fared better in the SF magazines where they first appeared, and the first notable illustration is by the great Virgil Finlay. Ballard and Finlay were paired on a number of occasions in the US magazines but mostly for Ballard’s more traditional SF stories. J. G. Ballard and his family on the list of the internment camp at Japan Center for Asian Historical Records While many of Ballard's stories are thematically and narratively unusual, he is perhaps best known for his relatively conventional war novel, Empire of the Sun (1984), a semi-autobiographical account of a young boy's experiences in Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War as it came to be occupied by the Japanese Imperial Army. Described as "The best British novel about the Second World War" by The Guardian, the story was adapted into a 1987 film by Steven Spielberg. And it is a hell of a setting. Vermilion Sands is a Palm Springs-style holiday town, once the place to be seen for the rich and famous, that sits aside a great lake of sand, whose sandy tides and barbed sand rays wash against the town's endless beaches. The sand lake is a treacherous thing, full of reefs and dangers, sailed by wheeled yachts that seek it's mysteries. The fact that the lake is sand rather than water is never questioned, its strangeness just part of the odd, almost magical realism of the nearby town.Ballard, J.G. (1993). The Atrocity Exhibition (expanded and annotated edition). ISBN 0-00-711686-1. Branigan, Tania (22 December 2003). " 'It's a pantomime where tinsel takes the place of substance' ". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 25 February 2017.

On 13 December 1965, BBC Two screened an adaptation of the short story "Thirteen to Centaurus" directed by Peter Potter. The one-hour drama formed part of the first season of Out of the Unknown and starred Donald Houston as Dr. Francis and James Hunter as Abel Granger. [62] In 2003, Ballard's short story "The Enormous Space" (first published in the science fiction magazine Interzone in 1989, subsequently printed in the collection of Ballard's short stories War Fever) was adapted into an hour-long television film for the BBC entitled Home by Richard Curson Smith, who also directed it. The plot follows a middle-class man who chooses to abandon the outside world and restrict himself to his house, becoming a hermit. Sellars, Simon (16 September 2006). "Concrete Island (1974)". Ballardian. Archived from the original on 29 October 2006 . Retrieved 7 March 2016.Ballard also had an interest in the relationship between various media. In the early 1970s, he was one of the trustees of the Institute for Research in Art and Technology. [71] In popular music [ edit ]