Stories

• "Prima Belladonna"
• "Escapement"
• "The Concentration City
  The Concentration City
  "The Concentration City" is a dystopian short story by British author J. G. Ballard, first published, under the title "Build-Up" in New Worlds volume 19 number 55 in January 1957. It was reprinted in the collections Billennium and Chronopolis and later, under its revised title, in The Disaster Area...
  
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• "Venus Smiles
  Venus Smiles
  "Venus Smiles" is a short story by British author J. G. Ballard. Originally entitled "Mobile", it appeared in the June 1957 edition of Science Fantasy . It was then rewritten and appeared in the Vermilion Sands collection under its new name and later The Complete Short Stories of J. G...
  
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• "Manhole 69"
• "Track 12
  Track 12
  "Track 12" is a short story by British author J. G. Ballard, it first appeared in the April 1958 edition of New Worlds . It then appeared in Passport to Eternity, The Venus Hunters, The Overloaded Man, and later in The Complete Short Stories of J. G...
  
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• "The Waiting Grounds"
• "Now: Zero
  Now: Zero
  Now: Zero, is a fictional short story by British author J. G. Ballard, released in 1959. It is featured in The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 1.- Plot Summary :...
  
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• "The Sound-Sweep
  The Sound-Sweep
  "The Sound-Sweep" is a short story by J.G. Ballard in which the title character, a mute boy vacuuming up stray music in a world without it, comes upon an opera singer hiding in a sewer. As all music has been outlawed and destroyed, the opera singer is obsolete...
  
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• "Zone of Terror
  Zone of Terror
  "Zone of Terror" is a short story by British author J. G. Ballard, first appearing in the March 1960 edition of New Worlds and then in the 1962 collection The Voices of Time and Other Stories. It later appeared in The Disaster Area and The Complete Short Stories of J. G...
  
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• "Chronopolis"
• "The Voices of Time
  The Voices of Time (short story)
  The Voices of Time is a dystopian science fiction short story by British author J. G. Ballard. It was first published in the October 1960 edition of New Worlds , and later in the 1962 collection The Voices of Time and Other Stories. It is an early example of the Inner Space type of story which...
  
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• "The Last World of Mr Goddard"
• "Studio 5, The Stars
  Studio 5, The Stars
  "Studio 5, The Stars" is a short story by British author J. G. Ballard, first appearing in the February 1961 edition of Science Fantasy ; it was reprinted in the anthology Billennium the following year. It later appeared in The Four-Dimensional Nightmare , Vermilion Sands and The Complete Short...
  
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• "Deep End
  Deep End (short story)
  "Deep End" is a short story written in 1961 by British author J. G. Ballard. It first appeared in the May 1961 edition of New Worlds and then in the 1962 collection The Voices of Time and Other Stories followed by The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 1 in 2006...
  
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• "The Overloaded Man"
• "Mr F. is Mr F.
  Mr F. is Mr F.
  "Mr F. is Mr F." is a short story by British author J. G. Ballard. It first appeared in the August 1961 edition of Science Fantasy and later in The Disaster Area , and then in the larger The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 1 anthology .-Plot summary:"Mr F...
  
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• "Billennium"
• "The Gentle Assassin"
• "The Insane Ones"
• "The Garden of Time"
• "The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista"
• "Thirteen to Centaurus"
• "Passport to Eternity"
• "The Cage of Sound"
• "The Watch-Towers"
• "The Singing Statues"
• "The Man on the 99th Floor"
• "The Subliminal Man"
• "The Reptile Enclosure"
• "A Question of Re-Entry"
• "The Time Tombs"
• "Now Wakes the Sea"
• "The Venus Hunters"
• "End-Game"
• "Minus One
  Minus One
  "Minus One" is a short story by British author J. G. Ballard; it was first published in the June 1963 edition of Science Fantasy , the 1967 collection The Disaster Area, and then later in the larger The Complete Short Stories of J. G...
  
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• "The Sudden Afternoon"
• "The Screen Game"
• "Time of Passage"