J. G. Ballard

The Day of Forever, is a short-story collection by J. G. Ballard. It contains the following stories: "The Day of Forever" "Prisoner of the Coral Deep" "Tomorrow is a Million Years" "The Man on the 99th Floor" "The Waiting Grounds" "The Last World of Mr Goddard" "The Gentle Assassin" "The Sudden Afternoon" "The Insane …

Low-Flying Aircraft and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by J. G. Ballard published in 1976. It includes: "The Ultimate City" - A postmodernist retelling of The Tempest, Following the exhaustion of the world's supply of fossil fuels, a dwindling population abandons cities and sets up 'the first …

The Venus Hunters is a collection of short stories by J. G. Ballard, first published in 1980 as a paperback by Panther Books, and reprinted as a hardback in 1986 by Victor Gollancz. It includes: "Now: Zero" "The Time-Tombs" "Track 12" "Passport to Eternity" "Escapement" "Time of Passage" "The Venus Hunters" "The …

Controversial science fiction writer, J.G. Ballard, tells of his unorthodox upbringing in Shanghai in the 1940's. Ballard has achieved acclaim for works such as Empire of the Sun, and controversy over Crash, which investigates the psychosexual significance of the car crash. The book includes an article on Ballard …

A User's Guide To The Millennium: Essays And Reviews is a collection of writings by the British author J. G. Ballard. Published in 1996, the book brings together many of Ballard's short pieces for magazines and newspapers, and covers reviews, essays and musing on subject from art, literature and science. The book also …

Myths of the Near Future is a short-story collection by J. G. Ballard, first published in 1982. It contains the following stories: "Myths of the Near Future" "Having a Wonderful Time" - Written in the form of postcards, the story chronicles a young couple who vacation on the Canary Islands, but their flight home is …

The Disaster Area is a collection of short stories by British author J. G. Ballard.

The Wind from Nowhere, first published in 1961 is the debut novel by English author J.G. Ballard. Prior to this, his published work had consisted solely of short stories. The novel was the first of a series of Ballard novels dealing with scenarios of "natural disaster", in this case seeing civilization reduced to …