Michael Moorcock writes of his late friend J.G. Ballard:
"Although literary critics were quick to minimize his years as an SF writer, Jimmy made no effort to divorce himself from his SF roots, though preferring to call himself first a 'speculative' and later an 'apocalyptic' writer. His influence was seen in the work of his admirers including Angela Carter, Martin Amis, Will Self, Iain Sinclair, Alan Moore, M. John Harrison and Christopher Priest. Tending, in the early years, to rely on me to introduce him to fellow spirits, like Burroughs, Chris Evans (New Worlds’ science editor), the artist Eduardo Paolozzi (our 'aeronautics adviser') and others, Jimmy remained a modest and rather shy man, a loyal friend who avoided what he called 'the literary crowd' even more assiduously than SF conventions . . ."
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