The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard » (1ST PICADO)

J.G. Ballard is the author of numerous books, including Empire of the Sun, the underground classic Crash, and The Kindness of Women. He is revered as one of the most important writers of fiction to address the consequences of twentieth-century technology. His latest book is Super-Cannes. He passed away in 2009.

First published in 1978, this collection of nineteen of Ballard's best short stories is as timely and informed as ever. 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 futurist who brought the information age into the mainstream.

The New York Times Book Review - Malcolm Radberry

A writer of enormous inventive powers. Ballard has, like Calvino, a remarkable [talent] for filling the empty, deprived spaces of modern life with the invisible cities and the wonder world of the imagination.

Introduction

The Concentration City

Manhole

Chronopolis

The Voices of Time

Deep End

The Overloaded Man

Billennium

The Garden of the Time

Thirteen for Centaurus

The Subliminal Man

The Cage of Sand

End Game

The Drowned Giant

The Terminal Beach

The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral D

The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race

The Atrocity Exhibition

Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy

Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagen