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Hey folks, welcome to a special episode at the projection booth. On this episode, I am talking

with Professor D. Harlan Wilson about his book on J.G. Ballard. It's available via the

University of Illinois Press.

You can get it at many places. And I hope you enjoy this episode.

I'm trying to remember back to the first time I ever heard of J.G. Ballard. I don't know if I can come up with a specific time. I'm curious, do you remember

when you first heard of Ballard? I don't, but my, I don't know. When I was thinking about this

interview, I was wondering how honest I was going to be, and then I figured, well, why not be completely honest because the book has received

some pretty good acclaim. I actually haven't seen any negative reviews from the book. So

are you ready for a long sort of how I came to write this book? So I was looking for a new project to do in terms of

literary criticism. I kind of go back and forth. I'm always writing, you know, fiction and

nonfiction simultaneously. But I was looking for a new project after the book on Nate Liv, John Carpenter's Day Live, that I did that we, of course, discussed on this podcast.

So what came across my radar because, and I'm, of course, I'm going to give plugs to all the things that I'm, is that cool to the people that I'm related to?

So I'm the reviews editor for extrapolation, which is the academic journal for speculative fiction.

And so I'm always receiving reviews of different books and seeing what's going on.

And I got a review of a book from University of Illinois Press, which was from this new, not a review of a book.

I got a review copy of a book for this new series of Dad going on.

This was, you know,

several years ago called Modern Masters of Science Fiction. And basically they're looking to do,

get scholars to do books on individual science fiction writers. I don't know how many they have

in the pipe so far, probably about 15, 20, maybe not 20, 10, 15,

let's do that.

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