Redmeme me on Ballard. If there is a polar scale with Palauniuk

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>>9714114
Also feel free to dismantle the scale

I don't know that your scale is meaningful, but Ballard and Dick are frequently grouped together as new wavers. They're quite distinct stylistically, but both excel at offbeat speculative fiction in which reality is broken down and/or reformulated. Dick is more overtly ontological whereas Ballard treats this as a more sociological phenomenon, but fans of one tend to appreciate the other.

>>9714114

Read the fucking book and find out for yourself

>>9714254
pkd is not a new waver, even if he wrote during the new wave and isn't shitty wishfulfillment fantasy like a lot of other non-new wave sci-fi.

>>9714371
If you insist. What's your criteria for new wave anyway? Always seems to me as merely an umbrella term for any sci-fi written during that period that wasn't shitty wish fulfillment fantasy.

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>>9714307
I don't appreciate your tone, faggot

Electric Sheep was a good book High Rise is shit
How is this a cult clasic? At least Crying Lot had funny stuff next to the drug trip vibe and not just lol random xD

>>9714840
>lol random
You clearly haven't read High Rise