The Drowning World: The Doom of the environment destroyed. The Burning World: the Doom of unchecked industrialism. The Crystal World: the Doom of global Pandemic. .......overall, a nice spread of potential Apocalypses.
This is a really nice video and i just want to say that I really think your video's are amazing and inspire me all the time so keep up the good work and thanks really thanks.
Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula K. Le Guin! Ursula K. Le Guin!! Ursula K. Le Guin!!! URSULA K. LE GUIN!!! Come on, if we're doing new wave sci-fi, she's gotta get an episode.
(4:40) No wonder David Lynch wanted to make a movie version of Crash in 1996. I did not know this! :) EDIT: Actually, it was David CRONENBERG, not Lynch! Thank you to user Jakarnilson for pointing out my mistake! :)
@@jakarnilson Oh! LOL! I remembered "David" and my limited brain cells filled in "Lynch"! Thank you for the correction, buddy! I will amend my comment! Peace! :)
Please do Anne McCaffery. Even just mention what she gave us. She gave us DRAGONRIDERS! Without her influence, we'd have no How to Train your Dragon, no Dragonlance and though those are both fantasy Dragonriders of Pern wasn't. It was Sci-Fi. She took dragons from being a big scary monster with too many teeth to being a noble creature that humans could form an intimate bond with. She gave us shoulder dragons. She must be honoured.
Don't forget Concrete Island in his Atrocity period, not to mention the fairly surreal outliers of Vermillion Sands and The Unlimited Dream Company, both of which have some sci-fi/speculative and subversive elements.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the movie made from his book. It starred a very young Christian Bale; Empire of the Sun was one of my favorite movies as a child.
I've only read a few of the works mentioned but wow is he capable of setting such powerful, twisted, deep ideas and images. They're books you remember years later, because sometimes you find yourself thinking about them.
Where has this author been all my life? I mean, he's been dead for ten odd years, but still. I hate this genre. It gives me nightmares without fail for every one I've watched and read. Still, I come back and force the sweet pain of exceptional directors and writers this genre creates. Only here can one bear their soul to such an extream, and thus I use it as catharsis so that I don't have to scream. 😶
scarred child scifi gives you nightmares? Huh. I dont doubt your experience, i dont do horror for much the same reasons, i just dont think i ever met someone who expressed this. It is fascinating...
I saw the movie "crash" Which based on the novel I think When I finished the movie I thought to myself "who ever wrote that must be insane" It's turn to be a psychiatrist. I wasn't far from the truth I guess 🙄
The tone of your comment doesn't sound like a joke, so... The 2004 film Crash is inspired by screenwriter Paul Haggis' experience of being carjacked in 1991. It has nothing to do with J.G. Ballard's book on sexual arousal by way of vehicular impacts.
Kind of wish yall would take a poke at feminist sci fi which was definitely a major theme in 60s/70s sci fi but has been pretty neglected in this video series. Ursula le guin's Left Hand of Darkness won a ton of awards when it came out and still resonates today.
And if you guys don't do anything for Ann McCaffrey, I will eat my damn hat. She basically came up with the original trope of dragon riders and mentally bonded creatures, which has been used in half of all sci fi and fantasy series since dragon riders of pern was published. It's seen as cliche now but it was definitely new then. And she 100% paved the road for many other female writers to break into modern sci fi (which was absolutely a massive boys club until the 60s).
Thank you guys so so much for this series. Theres not enough on youtube about science fiction history and analysis. I've learned so much. What resources do you use? I can't get enough!
That High Rise book is giving me Metamorphosis Alpha vibes. For those who don’t know, Metamorphosis alpha is an old RPG that takes place entirely in a giant space faring vessel where after a radioactive disaster, the whole ship turns into the world the players characters traverse
What a coincidence! I was just typing a reply about the slow inevitable corrosion of the world we live in while we distract ourselves in an ignorant facade of our own creation last night! No really, I was replying to an offhand joke about finding someone's innocence over a chapter title in a web novel called 'nightmare's call'. It's the strangest thing!
Still waiting for the Douglas Adams episode. Nearly gave up on science fiction because it seemed to take itself too seriously, then came Adams and the genre discovered it could have fun occasionally.
Cars is a banger though. When I was a kid I liked it not least because my father hated it - my classical music loving father, who by the way knew more cool electronic music than anyone and whom I learned a lot of neat music from. But Cars drove him up the wall.
The film adaption of "Highrise" is actually very good! The characters' inner thoughts are lost due to the change in medium, which is a bit of a bummer, but the film does a great job at capturing the surreal, dissociative, un-real mood of the book. it is also visually striking, plus the filmposter mimics the one for "Clockwork Orange", which makes all sorts of sense!
So he predicted the last 20 years up to 2021. The crystal world might hit its height in the age of Aquarius, as new ageism is symbolized by a scramble for crystal energies.
Looking over most of the author's work on Audible, few have more than a 100 ratings (which is a shockingly low number of reviews/ratings). I often wonder how much of a Colbert Bump being featured in this series is to such authors.
The Drowning World: The Doom of the environment destroyed.
The Burning World: the Doom of unchecked industrialism.
The Crystal World: the Doom of global Pandemic.
.......overall, a nice spread of potential Apocalypses.
Noname Nobody All three sound kinda real now
as they say, hindsight is 2020...
We are running towards both a Drowning world and a Burning world at the same time. I wish only that the powerful discover this obvious fact in time.
2020: sounds nice
_"In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom."_
*~ J.G. Ballard*
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ― J. Krishnamurti
In different words "In a functioning society, making others suffer is the only way to feel happy." Now you understand all the rich sadists.
Try NEW! UBIK!
Thank you for that Joy Division connection!
This is a really nice video and i just want to say that I really think your video's are amazing and inspire me all the time so keep up the good work and thanks really thanks.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin!
Ursula K. Le Guin!!
Ursula K. Le Guin!!!
URSULA K. LE GUIN!!!
Come on, if we're doing new wave sci-fi, she's gotta get an episode.
I mean...you almost got your wish. Something must have gone wrong on their end
There is too little content on Ursula on youtube
The Lathe of Heaven
Please, please reassure me that there will be an examination of Moorcock and New Worlds. Or at least of Disch.
Damn skippy.
(4:40) No wonder David Lynch wanted to make a movie version of Crash in 1996. I did not know this! :) EDIT: Actually, it was David CRONENBERG, not Lynch! Thank you to user Jakarnilson for pointing out my mistake! :)
David Cronenberg, not Lynch.
@@jakarnilson Oh! LOL! I remembered "David" and my limited brain cells filled in "Lynch"! Thank you for the correction, buddy! I will amend my comment! Peace! :)
“This is the Way”.
Oh, boy, here comes the Mandalorian memes...
I was waiting for Ugandan Knuckles personally.
Just because you want them, I won't.
@@Kilometers_KPH i can't help but think about that everytime they say it in the show.
Ye, I kno' da wae, brudda
Wow. Ballard really influenced pop culture
2:50 The Crystal World
*Kane and the Brotherhood of Nod wants to know your location.*
Ballard's "Empire Of The Sun" was also adapted into a movie by Steven Spielberg in the 80s, starring a very young Christian Bale.
Crash was also adapted during the late 90'sm starring James Spader
The Drowned World sounds like the prologue to Splatoon
and Waterworld
Please do Anne McCaffery. Even just mention what she gave us. She gave us DRAGONRIDERS! Without her influence, we'd have no How to Train your Dragon, no Dragonlance and though those are both fantasy Dragonriders of Pern wasn't. It was Sci-Fi. She took dragons from being a big scary monster with too many teeth to being a noble creature that humans could form an intimate bond with. She gave us shoulder dragons. She must be honoured.
How To Train Your Dragon has nothing to do with Pern. It's based on the author's experiences growing up on a Scottish island.
That sounds more like fantasy.
@@puffnisse AM WAS, SHE SAID, INFLUENCED BY MOORCOCK
Don't forget Concrete Island in his Atrocity period, not to mention the fairly surreal outliers of Vermillion Sands and The Unlimited Dream Company, both of which have some sci-fi/speculative and subversive elements.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the movie made from his book. It starred a very young Christian Bale; Empire of the Sun was one of my favorite movies as a child.
I've only read a few of the works mentioned but wow is he capable of setting such powerful, twisted, deep ideas and images.
They're books you remember years later, because sometimes you find yourself thinking about them.
My fav book of Ballard was "The Crystal World". It stuck in my mind for ages :3
Probably the best sci fi channel keep up the good work man
Are you certain of that?
I read all his short stories when a teenager.
This is the way.
**nods in Mandalorian**
This is the way.
I have spoken.
I really hope you guys cover Jack Vance at some point, love your videos, thanks for all your hard work!
Where has this author been all my life? I mean, he's been dead for ten odd years, but still. I hate this genre. It gives me nightmares without fail for every one I've watched and read. Still, I come back and force the sweet pain of exceptional directors and writers this genre creates. Only here can one bear their soul to such an extream, and thus I use it as catharsis so that I don't have to scream. 😶
scarred child scifi gives you nightmares? Huh. I dont doubt your experience, i dont do horror for much the same reasons, i just dont think i ever met someone who expressed this. It is fascinating...
3:46 wait that exists?!
HERESY
Those are some... bold chapter titles.
I saw the movie "crash"
Which based on the novel I think
When I finished the movie I thought to myself "who ever wrote that must be insane"
It's turn to be a psychiatrist.
I wasn't far from the truth I guess 🙄
The tone of your comment doesn't sound like a joke, so... The 2004 film Crash is inspired by screenwriter Paul Haggis' experience of being carjacked in 1991. It has nothing to do with J.G. Ballard's book on sexual arousal by way of vehicular impacts.
@@mbase6469 Think he was referring to the 1996 Crash directed and written by Cronenberg. Looked it up and it was based on JG Ballard novel.
@@mbase6469 There is an older movie basedf on the novel, also called crash.
@@mbase6469 The OP is talking about the 1996 David Cronenberg movie "Crash," based on Ballard's book. This has nothing to do with the 2004 "Crash."
You're an idiot. Cronenberg made a movie of Ballards novel in 1996. It wasn't a bad interpretation of his semi-autobiographical work.
Kind of wish yall would take a poke at feminist sci fi which was definitely a major theme in 60s/70s sci fi but has been pretty neglected in this video series. Ursula le guin's Left Hand of Darkness won a ton of awards when it came out and still resonates today.
And if you guys don't do anything for Ann McCaffrey, I will eat my damn hat. She basically came up with the original trope of dragon riders and mentally bonded creatures, which has been used in half of all sci fi and fantasy series since dragon riders of pern was published. It's seen as cliche now but it was definitely new then. And she 100% paved the road for many other female writers to break into modern sci fi (which was absolutely a massive boys club until the 60s).
The intro made me feel like I was listening to a Dr. Seuss audiobook.
_"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."_
*~ Dr. Seuss*
What? Dr. Suess writes about asylums where people pay to watch the suffering of the patients?
Thank you for existing.
The crystallized people sounds like Hyper Light Drifter
Fingers crossed for Stanisław Lem
Solaris is amazing.
Thank you guys so so much for this series. Theres not enough on youtube about science fiction history and analysis. I've learned so much. What resources do you use? I can't get enough!
Crystalizing organic beings?
This guy basically wrote the destiny of the damned people in the world of Final Fantasy XIII!
Ice-9 in "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut.
Neuromancer! Please please *PLEASE* so Neuromancer
Love this series!
2:54 this is probably what inspired adventure time’s crystal dimension
thank you for saying Burroughsesque.
Hey, at 3:36 when you say "burrowsesque", who is that referencing?
William S. Burroughs
@@lucasbarcellos3319 Thank you!
@@hanszimmer1941 The author of Naked Lunch, and the nephew of the creator of Tarzan and John Carter of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Empire of the Sun was one of my favorite scifi books growing up. It and Asimov's Caves of Steel.
Concrete Island is another great atrocity era story
That High Rise book is giving me Metamorphosis Alpha vibes. For those who don’t know, Metamorphosis alpha is an old RPG that takes place entirely in a giant space faring vessel where after a radioactive disaster, the whole ship turns into the world the players characters traverse
What a coincidence! I was just typing a reply about the slow inevitable corrosion of the world we live in while we distract ourselves in an ignorant facade of our own creation last night!
No really, I was replying to an offhand joke about finding someone's innocence over a chapter title in a web novel called 'nightmare's call'.
It's the strangest thing!
watched Empire of the Sun with a buddy, not realizing what it was based on, and though. “ that kid is going to be really f’d up” ....
I do so love Joy Division
nice learn about this guy especially since I am so familiar with things he has inspired
Needed this
Do Hitchiker’s guide to the Galaxy!
Yes!
I know right!
I'm intrigued!
I am kinda sad that they never had an episode about about one of my favorite author C.S Lewis
So Left hand of Darkness when?
@@volk551 yeah nah. It's what you call having a wank.
Am I the only one who loves the unlimited dream company?
Still waiting for the Douglas Adams episode. Nearly gave up on science fiction because it seemed to take itself too seriously, then came Adams and the genre discovered it could have fun occasionally.
It's adorable that you think Adams was the pioneer of that.
@@AlbertaGeek Not the pioneer, but the one that convinced publishers making readers laugh was profitable.
@@paullenoue8173 I can't argue with that. Cheers.
Consumer society will consume itself
Once we remember that all we have to lose is our chains, yes.
Heh. "Will."
I love all of the songs based off of Crash. The Normal - Warm Leatherette, The Creatures - Miss The Girl, and Gary Numan - Cars are just a few.
Cars is a banger though. When I was a kid I liked it not least because my father hated it - my classical music loving father, who by the way knew more cool electronic music than anyone and whom I learned a lot of neat music from. But Cars drove him up the wall.
@5:57 I actually saw the movie based on that...
Who thinks we need a deeper dive into the Lord of the rings books it's almost been a year
You could do extra health where you talk about mental and physical health
Are we going to see anything about Robert Silverberg and his “Chronicles of Majipoor” series?
he knows de way
empire of the sun was also adapted into a movie by steven spielberg.
Empire of the Sun is an awesome movie though
you should do a series on cm cosemans all tomorrows
Great stuff, Ballard changed my life when I tripped over him at 15. How about doing Robert Sheckley's Mindswap?
I woudlve never guessed that the movie Crash was based on a sci-fi book
Arthur
C.
Clarke
_please._
..and someone else mentioned Douglas Adams. ...so, _Yeah!_
...these are Fantastic, guys. ..wish they were longer, tho...
They've already done a pair of episodes on Arthur C. Clarke:
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So you bring up music, will you guys ever do a video about "Filk" music? The genera of SciFi and fantasy folk songs.
you think they are going to cover Callahan's crosstime saloon?
5:13
Bahaha!
I mean I’m lesbian but Ronald ragegan 😍
The Atrocity Exhibition this would make a good adapted Cartoon Network Adult Swim series.
Crystal planet sounds like it is a dystopia based on an infection outbreak
Awesome
Vermilion Sands
The film adaption of "Highrise" is actually very good! The characters' inner thoughts are lost due to the change in medium, which is a bit of a bummer, but the film does a great job at capturing the surreal, dissociative, un-real mood of the book. it is also visually striking, plus the filmposter mimics the one for "Clockwork Orange", which makes all sorts of sense!
Highrise can become a great movie adaptation.
There is a 2015 film adaptation of "the highrise" novel.
JG Ballard is the grandfather of Chuck Pahlaniuk
Didn't they make the crash movie?
I would like a copy of that 4th example in The Atrocity Exhibition
It would seem that Command and Conquier Tiberium series could be partially inspired by The crystal world
Inspire by Highrise, you shuld do Robert Silverberg author of The world inside
Can we please get a video about C. J. Cherryh and her Alliance-Union books?!
Did you guys mean picking up the British or U.S. edition of Terminal Beach?
So he predicted the last 20 years up to 2021. The crystal world might hit its height in the age of Aquarius, as new ageism is symbolized by a scramble for crystal energies.
I did a double take and was like.... Hey, thats not a book is it? Thats Joy Division! What are you and Zoey playing at?
Nice manic street preachers shout out.
wow
That opening quote was quite interesting. Jesus Christ be with you friends.😊
Looking over most of the author's work on Audible, few have more than a 100 ratings (which is a shockingly low number of reviews/ratings).
I often wonder how much of a Colbert Bump being featured in this series is to such authors.
Old people love audiobooks so a colbert bump sounds like something they would like... Whatever that is.
@@SkelNeldory Basically, where media coverage of certain pieces of media gets them more public attention.
"Why I want to Fuck Ronald Reagan" sounds like the title of a slice of life anime
Pokémon Drowning, Pokémon Burning, and Pokémon Crystal.
Can you do a video on Gamer? It's a great dystopia on societal decay! But be warned, it is... Needlessly bloody sometimes.
Socal/rise. High/media.
I exist
is Hunger games sci fi if so they should do a vidio on it
Ooohhhh
"Why I Want To F**k Ronald Reagan" sounds like a South Park episode
Ballard spawned many a power ballad like Video killed the radio star
💗👍✌🖖
It sounds like this is the kind of thing that inspired love sex and robots
Is the New Weird coming? I hope the New Weird is coming...
That will come later, right now we have New Wave.