Editing J. G. Ballard (section)

===Posthumous publication===
[[File:Grave of J. G. Ballard in Kensal Green Cemetery.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Ballard's grave in [[Kensal Green Cemetery]]]]
In October 2008, before his death, Ballard's literary agent, Margaret Hanbury, brought an outline for a book by Ballard with the working title ''Conversations with My Physician: The Meaning, if Any, of Life'' to the [[Frankfurt Book Fair]]. The physician in question is [[oncologist]] Professor [[Jonathan Waxman (oncologist)|Jonathan Waxman]] of [[Imperial College London]], who was treating Ballard for prostate cancer. While it was to be in part a book about cancer, and Ballard's struggle with it, it reportedly was to move on to broader themes. In April 2009 ''The Guardian'' reported that [[HarperCollins]] announced that Ballard's ''Conversations with My Physician'' could not be finished and plans to publish it were abandoned.<ref>{{cite news|first=Liz |last=Thompson |title=Ballard and the meaning of life |url=http://www.bookbrunch.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=215:ballard-and-the-meaning-of-life&catid=903:publishing&Itemid=79 |work=BookBrunch |date=16 October 2008 |access-date=20 April 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090425162341/http://www.bookbrunch.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=215%3Aballard-and-the-meaning-of-life&catid=903%3Apublishing&Itemid=79 |archive-date=25 April 2009 }}</ref>

In 2013, a 17-page untitled typescript listed as "Vermilion Sands short story in draft" in the [[British Library]] catalogue and edited into an 8,000-word text by Bernard Sigaud appeared in a short-lived French reissue of the collection by Éditions Tristram ({{ISBN|978-2367190068}}) under the title "Le labyrinthe Hardoon" as the first story of the cycle, tentatively dated "late 1955/early 1956" by B. Sigaud, David Pringle and Christopher J. Beckett. ''Reports From the Deep End'', an anthology of short stories inspired by J. G. Ballard (London: Titan Books, 2023, edited by Maxim Jakubowski and Rick McGrath), could have included "The Hardoon Labyrinth"—the original edition by B. Sigaud enriched to about 9,400 words by D. Pringle—but opposition from the J. G. Ballard Estate terminated the project.<ref>{{cite web|author=Beckett, Chris|title=The Progress of the Text: The Papers of J. G. Ballard at the British Library|work=Electronic British Library Journal|year=2011|url=http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2011articles/article12.html|access-date=3 July 2014|archive-date=14 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140914105826/http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2011articles/article12.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>Horrocks, Chris, "Disinterring the Present: Science Fiction, Media Technology and the Ends of the Archive", ''Journal of Visual Culture'', 2013 Vol 12(3): 414–430</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2014articles/article1.html |title=Near Vermilion Sands: The Context and Date of Composition of an Abandoned Literary Draft by J. G. Ballard |website=Bl.uk |date=2014 |access-date=3 July 2014 |archive-date=7 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407090012/http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2014articles/article1.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=King, Daniel|title="'Again Last Night': A previously unpublished Vermilion Sands story", SF Commentary 86|date=February 2014|pages=18–20|url=http://efanzines.com/SFC/SFC86L.pdf|access-date=5 April 2014|archive-date=7 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407065419/http://efanzines.com/SFC/SFC86L.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>