James Graham Ballard was born on November 15, 1930 in Shanghai, where his British family had moved because of his father’s job.

The publication of his article “Which Way to Inner Space” on the magazine “New Worlds” marked the birth of the British New Wave science fiction literary movement. The base topic of this movement is the inner space with great attention to psychic pulsions.

Ballard’s fame grew up in 1962 with the publication of his second novel, “The Drowned World”.