The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard

J. G. Ballard

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN: 9780393076875
• Subtopic: Literature General

Named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle
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. With the much-hailed release of The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard, readers now have a means to celebrate the unmatched range and mesmerizing cadences of a literary genius. Whether writing about musical orchids, human cannibalism, or the secret history of World War III, Ballard's Complete Stories evokes the hallucinations of Kafka and Borges in its ability to render modern paranoia and fantastical creations on the page.

Includes the story "The Garden of Time," the inspiration for the 2024 Met Gala Dress code.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Also by J.G. Ballard
• Frontispiece
• Title Page
• 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
• Bibliography
• Praise
• Copyright