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Blurb

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 scientifically advanced agrarian society' based on solar wind and tidal power. The novella tells of Halloway who frustrated by the inertia he sees around him, builds a glider and flies back to the seemingly empty city and determines to re-create its lost vitality as described to him by his grandfather...
"Low-Flying Aircraft" - Set in Empuriabrava in Spain in a world in which the population has fallen dramatically as more and more babies are born deformed. Forrester and his wife Judith await news of her latest pregnancy whilst watching a doctor making trips in a light aircraft collecting art treasures from abandoned museums and spraying silver paint across the landscape..