num_pages: 302
description: 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.Contents:The Concentration City (1957)Manhole 69 (1957)Chronopolis (1960)The Voices of Time (1960)Deep End (1961)The Overloaded Man (1961)Billennium (1961)The Garden of Time (1962)Thirteen to Centaurus (1962)The Subliminal Man (1963)The Cage of Sand (1962)End-Game (1963)The Drowned Giant (1964)The Terminal Beach (1964)The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral D (1967)The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race (1966)The Atrocity Exhibition (1966)Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy (1966)Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan (1968)
language: English
title: The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard
titlecomplete: The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Cyberpunk, British Literature, Collections, Anthologies, Literature, Fantasy
ratings_count: 1588
publisher: Holt Paperbacks