The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard

from moonimal

I'd never heard of Ballard when I read a review of this collection, so I approached this work as an introduction to him, which is precisely the wrong thing to do. It is the 'complete' stories, after all, which means there are gems and clunkers in here. I started out with 'The Drowned Giant', a st...

from jkdavies

This is a huge collection of short stories; clocking in at over 1,100 pages. Most of them were written in the 1960's & 70's; and unfortunately it shows; there is a dated feel to many of them, fascinating as some of the dystopian visions are.High points included rediscovering Chronopolis, a story ...

from Mijk

Librarything cannot seem to access to the well-known Complete collection of Ballard's short stories published in two chunky volumes in 2001 (Flamingo) and again 2011 (Fourth Estate). This man's writing shaped me and my generation inside our heads. These stories were our future and they are our pr...

from romanccm

sort of an awkward writer, but with ideas way ahead of his time.. which is roughly now

from Mijk

Librarything cannot seem to access to the well-known Complete collection of Ballard's short stories published in two chunky volumes in 2001 (Flamingo) and again 2011 (Fourth Estate). This man's writing shaped me and my generation inside our heads. These stories were our future and they are our pr...