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published
November 5th 2001
by Flamingo / HarperCollins
binding
Hardcover, 1200 pages
isbn
0007124058
(isbn13: 9780007124053)
description
The Complete Short Stories of JG Ballard are required reading for all connoisseurs of Ballard's writing. This compilation brings together 96 short sto...more
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Easily in my top 5 books ever. I love JG Ballard, and his ideas come across best in short story form.
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Read in January, 2009
recommends it for:
dystopians
It has taken me almost three months to read this book, but not because I didn't enjoy it, or not exactly, anyway. Claustrophobic, paranoid and disorientating, J G Ballard has been the perfect accompaniment to my recent move to a forgotten corner of an urban industrial wasteland in the West Midlands. I wish J G Ballard would write a story about this godforsaken place, as I am yet to come across anyone else who can write so beautifully about urban decay. Ballard has an awe-inspiringly dark imagina...more
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Read in March, 2007
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fans of early sci-fi.
If you're a fan of a certain author who likes to trace their history from their early writings to the realization of their main concepts, then this is a book for those JG Ballard fans. This first collection features Ballard as a mostly sci-fi writer and hints only at his concepts of technology and dehumanization that would cme to fruition in Crash and The Atrocity Exhibition. As a writer, Ballard is always in top form, but a few stories here have concepts that seemed rather half baked to me, lik...more
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Read in May, 2009
I'd forgotten how important his writing has been in my life.
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Read in August, 2008
Any writer living now who wants to write science fiction (there is the occasional weird tale or Alfred Hitchcock Present's-type crime story mixed in) or fantasy has to read this. No excuses.
Amazing stuff, visionary, compelling, clear, personal. Some of the earliest material is a little shaky but Ballard quickly finds his dry, clear, clinical voice.
Not available in America. Pony up the cash and be taught how its done!
Amazing stuff, visionary, compelling, clear, personal. Some of the earliest material is a little shaky but Ballard quickly finds his dry, clear, clinical voice.
Not available in America. Pony up the cash and be taught how its done!
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It looks like this one volume collection isn't available except at prohibitive costs, But I should have all this stuuf in form or the other. Ballard is important well past the boundries of science fiction.
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Well I put this mighty tome down two thirds the way through & have yet to pick it up but I will do one day. The last third will be full of his experimental stories and I will need a bottle of aspirin by my side.
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You were the first one, you were the last one...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6LB6Q_oycfQ
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6LB6Q_oycfQ
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