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The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard (Hardcover)

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"Ballard is, in truth, a literary surrealist, and his dreamlike narratives reveal a psychoanalytic intensity reminiscent of Kafka's more somber fables....In THE COMPLETE STORIES OF J.G. BALLARD devastated worlds are matched with even more devastated psyches. But these aren't simply 'myths of the near future,' they are probes sent down into the desolate heart of the here and now. As Ballard knew, reality has become just a subgenre of science fiction."

"Each of J.G. Ballard's 98 short stories is like a dream more perfectly realized than any of your own. His personal vocabulary of scenarios imprints itself from the very first, each image with the quality of a newly minted archetype....Ultimately, Ballard is simply a master story writer--the maker of unforgettable artifacts in words, each as absolute and perplexing as sculptures unviewable from a single perspective."

Publisher's note

Collects all ninety-two of the late Empire of the Sun author's stories--including "Prima Belladonna," "Dead Time," and "The Index"-- which span five decades and explore everything from musical orchids to human cannibalism to the secret history of World War III.

J. G. Ballard should be recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic writers in the world. Here, in his Complete Stories, readers can finally celebrate the unparalleled range and the mesmerizing cadences of a literary genius, who "like Calvino, has] a remarkable gift for filling the empty, deprived spaces of modern life" (Malcolm Bradbury). With 92 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories, spanning five decades, and featuring such classics as "Prima Belladonna," "Dead Time," and "The Index," Ballard's Complete Stories evokes Kafka and Borges with its ability to render psychosis, modern paranoia, and fantastical creations on the page. Whether writing about musical orchids, human cannibalism, or the secret history of World War III, Ballard is one of the most inventive of twentieth-century writers, and has endowed the world with such a humanistic and transcendent vision that his influence will grow in years to come.

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A stylistic and cultural visionary, author J.G. Ballard (1930-2009) was famous for his brilliantly paranoid and outlandish depictions of worlds and characters locked in a bizarre obsessive relationships to technology. His science-fiction tales posed disturbing questions about our hypermodern reality, and his depictions of "normal life" felt as surreal as distant planets. A unique blend of Borges, Bradbury, and Burroughs, Ballard's short-stories continue to be one of the most prescient and unsettling visions of humanity. W.W. Norton's mammoth collection includes all of his short stories (nearly 100 in total), including such scandalous masterpieces as "Why I Want to [F**k] Ronald Reagan." The 1200-plus page collection includes an introduction by Martin Amis.

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