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I just now saw your post.
I discovered Ballard when I was a pimple-faced adolescent. I absolutely loved his work and thought of it as challenging, edgy, and entertaining.
I thought many of the "older school" SF writers of the day were writing trashy, schlockly crap. Then I discovered Norman Spinrad, J.G. Ballard, Harlan Ellison, Barry Malzberg, to name a few.
These newer writers made me realize that science fiction - like the best fiction - must first deal with human beings, and science second. These writers moved us beyond the boundaries of "normal" SF: They grabbed our minds and our gonads and shoved us hard against the wall and made us think.
I'll miss his work.
Don
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