Ballardian

Ballard +‎ -ian

Ballardian (comparative more Ballardian, superlative most Ballardian)

1. Of or pertaining to the characteristic fictional milieu of author J. G. Ballard (1930–2009).

   Coordinate term: Wellsian

   • 1993, Nicholas Ruddick, Ultimate Island: On the Nature of British Science Fiction, Praeger Pub Text

     Yet the sense of evil — which seems to motivate the Christian allusions in Golding, as though evil were what was missing from the Wellsian world picture — is nowhere present in the Ballardian text.

   • 2012, Iain Sinclair, Ghost Milk: Recent Adventures Among the Future Ruins of London on the Eve of the Olympics, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (→ISBN)

     The purest Ballardian set, poised chronologically between High-Rise and Millennium People, was an estate on the edge of the recently created Barrier Park (architectural planting in the deep trenches of an old dock).

   • 2013, Paul Morley, The North: (And Almost Everything In It), Bloomsbury Publishing (→ISBN)

     However space age, dislocated and alienated his music became, however Ballardian, surreal and abstract his conceptual concerns, he remained fixed in a northern time and space.

   The desolate character of this once-thriving industrial district takes on a Ballardian pall in the noonday sun.

2. Relating to someone with the surname Ballard.