He writes about the bleakness of man-made landscapes and the effects of technology on the human psyche. Ballard has changed the direction of science fiction from outer space to inner space. In the history of science fiction (New Wave movement) and British literature, J. Keywords : Time, Space, Boredom, Leisure, Capitalism, and Crime Ballard projects the future which is going to take place on this earth soon and shows how man’s activities are overtly and covertly constructed, regulated, and managed by the capitalists. It is contextual and relevant in the light of the increasing technologization and construction of time and space and man’s yielding to this design. The novel fictionalizes the complexities of the social setup.
It is a visionary work about realities, kinds of which are organized and regulated by the contemporary western capitalists. It speaks about how time and space are designed for comfort of man while bringing about the dark realities behind the veneer of such comforts and luxuries. In the present paper, a study is made on J G Ballard’s novel Cocaine Nights (1996) that explores the construction of a time-space configured society (Beckman 273) in the contemporary western urban. His novels bring up ecological imbalanced landscapes caused by the technological advances while also dealing with the constructed Spatio-temporalities in the contemporary western world and present how they affect the lives of people in the post-modern world regulated by capitalistic economy. He keeps time and space at the center of the fictional world of his novels and due to his literary distinctiveness his kind of fictional works have earned the epithet: ‘Ballardian”.
His works tend to focus on themes like dystopia, social decay, and dehumanization. He writes about bleak man-made landscapes, the effects of technology on the human psyche as well as apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic novels. A novelist, short story writer, and an essayist Ballard, associated himself with the New Wave movement in science fiction. He says the true alien planet is the Earth.
G Ballard is a name that changed the direction of science fiction from outer space to inner space.
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