Ballard is cited as an important forebear of the cyberpunk movement by Bruce Sterling in his introduction to the seminal '' Mirrorshades '' anthology . Ballard 's parody of American politics , the pamphlet " Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan " , which was subsequently included as a chapter in his experimental novel '' The Atrocity Exhibition '' , was photocopied and distributed by pranksters at the 1980 Republican National Convention . In the early 1970s , Bill Butler , a bookseller in Brighton , was prosecuted under UK obscenity laws for selling the pamphlet
1980 Republican National Convention
1980 Republican National Convention
J. G. Ballard