Author J. G. Ballard Bibliography

The Drowned World (J. G. Ballard) ---»

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Best of all Ballard books. An early one, and out of print currently. Strange fever dreams, like Thomas Manns Death in Venice, but, unlike Mann, Ballard never ignores science. This is about a reptilian fever dream in a post-warming world, where all of humanity has retreated to some small islands north of greenland, and send [...]

The Drought (J. G. Ballard) ---»

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Yes, another ecological, archaeological apocalyptic disaster science fiction book classic from an early master of the message… although most people only know him as Oh Yeah, That Guy Who Wrote The Book They Made That Movie About. (google him if you dont know.) Like Frank Herbert, whose early classics like The Green Brain outpace, IMHO, [...]

The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard (J. G. Ballard) ---»

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A true poet of the scientific. This collection has an excellent grouping of Ballards short stories, many of which have been hard to find until now. Known too much for his Crash, Ballard is, like early Frank Herbert, an extensively environmentalist author, and many of these stories reflect it. Not a bad story in the [...]