James Graham Ballard (born November 18, 1930) is a Britishnovelist remarkable for the range of genres of his novels - science fiction, modernistic art novel, and historical setting. A great many of his writings are about dystopias.
... 1547 he created a doctrinal compromise that he felt Catholics and Protestants alike might share. In 1548 he made the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands an entity ...