“Extreme Possibilities”: Mapping “the sea of time and space” in J G Ballard’s Pacific fictions Simon Sellars 10.4225/03/5922650e32620 https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/journal_contribution/_Extreme_Possibilities_Mapping_the_sea_of_time_and_space_in_J_G_Ballard_s_Pacific_fictions/5005223 One of the more enduring misconceptions surrounding the work of J G Ballard is that it operates in the classical dystopian narrative mode,1 sup-posedly mining pessimism, repression and the negativity of a post-industrial age. Robert Collins’s commentary is typical, placing Ballard’s Crash (1973) at number three in a list of “the top 10 dystopian novels”. 2017-05-22 04:11:56 J.G. Ballard Literary Studies Utopias Literary utopias Literary Studies not elsewhere classified