Millennium man

"He opened up subjects that seemed peripheral or uninteresting - urban spaces, motorways, airports, high rises. He showed what can happen there; that they were charged sites of human activity, if unliterary.

He saw that if you looked at the edges of vision - the places often treated with a kind of snobbery - they were where new things were happening, not in the avant garde."

Toby Litt on the self-proclaimed "architect of dreams, sometimes nightmares", the late J G Ballard.

Litt's comment reminds me that, having enjoyed Crash and Super-Cannes, I've been vowing to read Concrete Island for ages, simply because of the brilliance of the central conceit alone. Millennium People is already on the shelf waiting to be read, too.

RIP.