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July 23, 2022 Jyoti
STORM: In SF Horizons, Brian Aldiss wrote that 'Ballard is seldom discussed in fanzines'. Time has certainly proved him wrong, and now you are one of the most discussed people in fandom. What do you think of fandom itself? BALLAD: I didn't know that was the case, because I never see any fanzines. I don't have any contact with fans. My one and only contact with fandom was when I'd just started writing, twelve years ago, when the World Science Fiction Convention was being held in London, in 1957, and I went along to that as a young new writer hoping to meet people who were interested in the serious aims of science fiction and all its possibilities. In fact there was just a collection of very unintelligent people, who were almost illiterate, who had no interest whatever in the serious and interesting possibilities of science fiction. In fact I was so taken aback by that convention that I more or less stopped writing for a couple of years. Since then I've had absolutely nothing to do with fans, and I think they're a great handicap to science fiction and always have been.
I mean… cruel but accurate, no?

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