Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009
The best short stories of J.G. Ballard - 1st ed - New York : Picador USA, 2001 - ix, 302 pages ; 24 cm
Introduction by Anthony Burgess
The Concentration City -- Manhold 69 -- Chronopolis -- The voices of time -- Deep end -- The overloaded man -- Billennium -- The garden of 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 Reagan
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 futurists who brought the information age into the mainstream
0030425069 9780030425066 0030456614 9780030456619 0312278446
77028234
Science fiction, English
Short stories, English
823.914 BA.B 2001 / 02520
The best short stories of J.G. Ballard - 1st ed - New York : Picador USA, 2001 - ix, 302 pages ; 24 cm
Introduction by Anthony Burgess
The Concentration City -- Manhold 69 -- Chronopolis -- The voices of time -- Deep end -- The overloaded man -- Billennium -- The garden of 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 Reagan
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 futurists who brought the information age into the mainstream
0030425069 9780030425066 0030456614 9780030456619 0312278446
77028234
Science fiction, English
Short stories, English
823.914 BA.B 2001 / 02520