The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard

The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard
Author: J. G. Ballard
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 146685667X

First published in 1978, this collection of nineteen of J. G. Ballard's best short stories is as timely and informed as ever. This collection includes “The Garden of Time,” the inspiration for the 2024 Met Gala–fashion’s biggest night. His tales of the human psyche and its relationship to nature and technology, as viewed through a strong microscope, were eerily prescient and now provide greater perspective on our computer-dominated culture. Ballard's voice and vision have long served as a font of inspiration for today's cyber-punks, the authors and futurists who brought the information age into the mainstream.

The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard

The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard
Author: J. G. Ballard
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2001-07-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312278441

The stories in this collection explore the human psyche and its relationship to nature and technology.

The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard

The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard
Author: J. G. Ballard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1985
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780671614515

The renowned science-fiction writer selects the best and most representative of his short fiction, revealing the variety of his projections of twentieth-century technology in post-atomic worlds

The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard

The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard
Author: J. G. Ballard
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 1215
Release: 2010-11-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0393076873

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.

Garden of Time

Garden of Time
Author: J. G. Ballard
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2014-04-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781457991264

War Fever

War Fever
Author: J. G. Ballard
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466856645

A war-ravaged Beirut is the setting for the title story of this visionary collection by J. G. Ballard, a tale in which a young street fighter inadvertently discovers how to bring an end to the bloodshed only to find that his solution is all too effective as far as some supposedly neutral observers are concerned. Other stories in War Fever feature an assassination plot against an American astronaut, the leader of an authoritarian religious movement; a man who is destroyed by a car crash and resolves never to leave his apartment again; and the survivor of a toxic-waste ship wrecked on a deserted Caribbean island.

High-Rise: A Novel

High-Rise: A Novel
Author: J. G. Ballard
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2012-03-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0871404737

"Harsh and ingenious! High Rise is an intense and vivid bestiary, which lingers unsettlingly in the mind." —Martin Amis, New Statesman When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on “enemy” floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.

Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton, An Autobiography

Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton, An Autobiography
Author: J. G. Ballard
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2013-02-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0871403420

A final statement from the greatest clairvoyant of twentieth-century literature. Never before published in America, this revelatory autobiography—hailed as “fascinating [and] amazingly lucid” (Guardian)—charts the remarkable story of James Graham Ballard, a man described by Martin Amis as “the most original English writer of the last century.” Beginning with his Shanghai childhood, Miracles of Life guides us from the deprivations of Lunghua Camp during World War II, which provide the back story for his best-selling Empire of the Sun, to his arrival in war-torn England and his emergence as “the ideal chronicler of our disturbed modernity” (Observer). With prose of characteristic precision, Ballard movingly recalls his first attempts at science fiction, the 1970 American pulping of The Atrocity Exhibition—which sprang from his fascination with JFK conspiracy theories—and his life as a single father after the premature death of his wife. “This book should make yet more converts to a cause that Ballard’s devotees have been pleading for years” (Independent).

The Complete Short Stories

The Complete Short Stories
Author: J. G. Ballard
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 786
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0007245769

Originally published in 1 vol.: London: Flamingo, 2001.

The Day of Creation: A Novel

The Day of Creation: A Novel
Author: J. G. Ballard
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2012-05-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0871404044

"As Dr. Mallory watches his clinic fail on the parched terrain of central Africa, he dreams of discovering a third Nile that will make the Sahara bloom. When there is a trickle on the local airstrip, and soon a river, the obsessed Mallory claims it as his own creation. Joined by Noon, a silent adolscent girl who as a child ran with the local guerrillas; Professor Sanger, a documentary filmmaker with a fading reputation; and Nora Warrer, the widow of a Rhodesian veterinary surgeon, the remains of whose menagerie flourish exotically amid the land's new fertility, Mallory sets out for the river's source."--Dust jacket.