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The complete stories of J.G. Ballard

A collection of 98 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories, spanning five decades, venerates the remarkable imagination of J. G. Ballard. With a body of work unparalleled in twentieth-century literature, J. G. Ballard is recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic writers in the world. Wit...

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Main Author: Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009 (Author)
Other Authors: Amis, Martin (Writer of introduction)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2009.
Edition:1st American edition.
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Great Britain > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction.
Short stories, English > 20th century.
Short stories.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / by Martin Amis
  • Author's introduction
  • Prima belladonna
  • Escapement
  • The concentration city
  • Venus smiles
  • Manhole 69
  • Track 12
  • The waiting grounds
  • Now : zero
  • The sound-sweep
  • Zone of terror
  • Chronopolis
  • The voices of time
  • The last world of Mr. Goddard
  • Studio 5, the stars
  • Deep end
  • The overloaded man
  • Mr. F is Mr. F
  • Billennium
  • The gentle assassin
  • The insane ones
  • The garden of time
  • The thousand dreams of Stellavista
  • Thirteen to Centaurus
  • Passport to eternity
  • The cage of sand
  • The watch-towers
  • The singing statues
  • The man on the 99th floor
  • The subliminal man
  • The reptile enclosure
  • A question of re-entry
  • The time-tombs
  • Now wakes the sea
  • The Venus hunters
  • End-game
  • Minus one
  • The sudden afternoon
  • The screen game
  • Time of passage
  • Prisoner of the coral deep
  • The lost Leonardo
  • The terminal beach
  • The illuminated man
  • The delta at sunset
  • The drowned giant
  • The Gioconda of the twilight noon
  • The volcano dances
  • The beach murders
  • The day of forever
  • The impossible man
  • Storm-bird, storm-dreamer
  • Tomorrow is a million years
  • The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy considered as a downhill motor race
  • Cry hope, cry fury!
  • The recognition
  • The cloud-sculptors of Coral D
  • Why I want to fuck Ronald Reagan
  • The dead astronaut
  • The Comsat angels
  • The killing ground
  • A place and a time to die
  • Say goodbye to the wind
  • The greatest television show on earth
  • My dream of flying to Wake Island
  • The air disaster
  • Low-flying aircraft
  • The life and death of God
  • Notes towards a mental breakdown
  • The 60 minute zoom
  • The smile
  • The ultimate city
  • The dead time
  • The index
  • The intensive care unit
  • Theatre of war
  • Having a wonderful time
  • One afternoon at Utah Beach
  • Zodiac 2000
  • Motel architecture
  • A host of furious fancies
  • News from the sun
  • Memories of the space age
  • Myths of the near future
  • Report on an unidentified space station
  • The object of the attack
  • Answers to a questionnaire
  • The man who walked on the moon
  • The secret history of World War 3
  • Love in a colder climate
  • The enormous space
  • The largest theme park in the world
  • War fever
  • Dream cargoes
  • A guide to virtual death
  • The message from Mars
  • Report from an obscure planet
  • New stories for the American edition
  • The secret autobiography of J.G.B.
  • The dying fall.

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