The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard

The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard

Author: J. G. Ballard

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 146685667X

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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.


Rushing to Paradise

Rushing to Paradise

Author: J. G. Ballard

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1996-04-15

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780312134150

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The rise and fall of a cult leader. After losing her medical license, Dr. Barbara Rafferty turns environmentalist to protest French nuclear testing in the Pacific. The campaign attracts media attention, money flows and she sets up a commune on an atoll, an experiment which ends in bloodshed


The Drowned World: A Novel (50th Anniversary Edition)

The Drowned World: A Novel (50th Anniversary Edition)

Author: J. G. Ballard

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2012-07-23

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0871404060

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From one of the most powerful and original talents in science fiction comes the story of a new world--a strange world where solar radiation fluctuations have melted the polar ice caps, flooding the land and raising the temperature of the atmosphere.


Hello America: A Novel

Hello America: A Novel

Author: J. G. Ballard

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2013-05-20

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 0871406845

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"This fable lifts a great freight of ideas effortlessly…The story of an expedition driven on by wishes of possession and power but guided internally by myths of America whose sources lie in the late 20th century." —Guardian Following the energy crisis of the late twentieth century, America has been abandoned. Now, a century later, a small group of European explorers returns to the now climatically mutated continent. But America is unrecognizable—the Bering Strait has been dammed and much of the country has become a desert, populated by isolated natives and the bizarre remnants of a disintegrated culture. The expedition sets off from Manhattan on a cross-country journey, through Holiday Inns and abandoned theme parks, to uncover a shocking new power in the heart of Las Vegas.


The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard

The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard

Author: J. G. Ballard

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2010-11-08

Total Pages: 1215

ISBN-13: 0393076873

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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.


The Crystal World

The Crystal World

Author: J. G. Ballard

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2012-06-28

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0007374895

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From J. G. Ballard, author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Cocaine Nights’ comes his extraordinary vision of an African forest that turns all in its path to crystal.