false <![CDATA[The Complete Short Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182012478m/1222869.jpg 749720 6 <I>The Complete Short Stories</I> of JG Ballard are required reading for all connoisseurs of Ballard's writing. This compilation brings together 96 short stories drawn from previous collections of Ballard's short stories, including <I>The Voices of Time</I> and <I>War Fever</I>, as well as four previously uncollected stories. The result is an exhilarating overview of Ballard's development as a short-story writer, from the singing orchids of Vermilion Sands in <I>Prima Belladonna</I>, completed in 1956, to the millennial anxieties of <I>Report from an Obscure Planet</I>, written in 1992. <p> <I>The Complete Short Stories</I> confirm Ballard's stature as a craftsman of the short story, which often suits his surreal brilliance above and beyond later novels such as <I>Cocaine Nights</I> and <I>Super-Cannes</I>. In his Introduction, Ballard reflects, "the short story is coined from precious metal, a glint of gold that will glow for ever in the deep purse of your imagination." Time and again, whether exploring the furthest reaches of science fiction, or the banal surrealism of English suburban life, Ballard's perverse insight lodges itself in your imagination, as he explores and often punctures what he refers to as "that over-worked hologram called reality". This collection will delight devotees, but it will also allow readers new to Ballard to experience a short-story writer of the stature of Borges, Bradbury or Edgar Allan Poe. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I> 1211367 book 2001 The Complete Short Stories total:72|5:45|4:21|3:5|2:1|1:0| 72 326 185 11 0 1 false false Wed Apr 22 11:22:37 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 20:50:51 -0700 2009 most unusual relationship with a singing flower. Makes a quick exit.



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INTRODUCTION
By Martin Amis

This man needs no introduction.

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