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.
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Auguste Piccard, (1884-1962), physicist and explorer
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