J.G. Ballard Books In Order

Empire Of The Sun Books In Publication Order

  1. Empire of the Sun (1984)
  2. The Kindness of Women (1991)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Wind from Nowhere (1962)
  2. The Drowned World (1962)
  3. The Drought (1964)
  4. The Crystal World (1966)
  5. Love and Napalm (1970)
  6. Crash (1973)
  7. Concrete Island (1974)
  8. High-Rise (1975)
  9. The Unlimited Dream Company (1979)
  10. Hello America (1981)
  11. The Day of Creation (1987)
  12. Running Wild (1988)
  13. Rushing to Paradise (1994)
  14. Cocaine Nights (1996)
  15. Super-Cannes (2000)
  16. Millennium People (2003)
  17. Kingdom Come (2006)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Chronopolis (1971)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. Billenium (1962)
  2. The Voices of Time (1962)
  3. Passport To Eternity (1963)
  4. The Terminal Beach (1964)
  5. The Day of Forever (1967)
  6. The Disaster Area (1967)
  7. The Atrocity Exhibition (1970)
  8. Vermilion Sands (1971)
  9. Chronopolis and Other Stories (1971)
  10. Low Flying Aircraft and Other Stories (1976)
  11. The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard (1978)
  12. The Venus Hunters / The Overloaded Man (1980)
  13. Myths of the Near Future (1982)
  14. War Fever and Other Stories (1990)
  15. The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard (2001)
  16. The Complete Short Stories (2006)
  17. The Best Science Fiction of J. G. Ballard (2009)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. A User’s Guide to the Millennium (1996)
  2. Quotes (2004)
  3. J.G. Ballard Conversations (2005)
  4. Miracles of Life (2008)
  5. Extreme Metaphors (2012)

Mervyn Peake Collections In Publication Order

  1. Ride a Co*ck-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes (By:Mervyn Peake) (1940)
  2. Shapes And Sounds (By:Mervyn Peake) (1941)
  3. Rhymes Without Reason (By:Mervyn Peake) (1944)
  4. The Glassblowers (By:Mervyn Peake) (1950)
  5. Boy in Darkness and Other Stories (By:Mervyn Peake) (1956)
  6. The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb (By:Mervyn Peake) (1962)
  7. A Reverie of Bone and other poems (By:Mervyn Peake) (1967)
  8. A Book of Nonsense (By:Mervyn Peake) (1972)
  9. Selected Poems (By:Mervyn Peake) (1972)
  10. Mervyn Peake (By:Mervyn Peake) (1975)
  11. Writings & Drawings (By:Mervyn Peake) (1975)
  12. Twelve Poems 1939 – 1960 (By:Mervyn Peake) (1975)
  13. Peake’s Progress (By:Mervyn Peake) (1978)
  14. Collected Poems (By:Mervyn Peake) (2008)
  15. Peake Plays (By:Mervyn Peake) (2011)
  16. Complete Nonsense (By:Mervyn Peake) (2011)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Dangerous Visions (1967)
  2. Dangerous Visions 3 (1967)
  3. The Inner Landscape (1969)
  4. Best From Fantasy And Science Fiction: 18th Series (1973)
  5. Star Book of Horror No. 1 (1975)
  6. Beyond Tomorrow (1976)
  7. The Best of British SF 2 (1977)
  8. Great Flying Stories (1991)
  9. Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction (1991)
  10. The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010)
  11. Lost Mars (2018)
  12. Classic Stories of World War II (2018)

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J.G. Ballard Books Overview

The Kindness of Women

The fascinating, and largely autobiographical, sequel to J G Ballard’s prize winning ‘Empire of the Sun’, that follows Jim to post war England. ‘The Kindness of Women‘ continues the story of the boy whose life in Japanese occupied Shaghai was described so memorably in ‘Empire of the Sun’. it sets those traumatic events within the context of a lifetime as we follow the narrator, Jim, to England after the war. He tries and fails to find stability as a medical student at Cambridge and a trainee RAF pilot in Canada. Then, after settling happily into family life, his world is ripped apart by domestic tragedy. He plunges into the maelstrom of the 1960s, an instigator and subject of every aspect of cultural, social and sexual experimentation. All this and much more, we see as the attempt of a bruised mind to make sense of the uphaval around it.

The Drowned World

In the 21st century, fluctuations in solar radiation have caused the ide caps to melt and the seas to rise. Global temperatures have climbed, and civilization has retreated to the Arctic and Antarctic circles. London is a city now inundated by a primeval swamp, to which an expedition travels to record the flora and fauna of this new Triassic Age. This early novel by the author of CRASH and EMPIRE OF THE SUN is at once a fast paced narrative, a stunning evocation of a flooded, tropical London of the near future and a speculative foray into the workings of the unconscious mind.

The Drought

The world is threatened by dramatic climate change in this highly acclaimed and influential novel, one of the most important early works by the bestselling author of ‘Cocaine Nights’ and ‘Super Cannes’. Water. Man’s most precious commodity is a luxury of the past. Radioactive waste from years of industrial dumping has caused the sea to form a protective skin strong enough to devastate the Earth it once sustained. And while the remorseless sun beats down on the dying land, civilisation itself begins to crack. Violence erupts and insanity reigns as the remnants of mankind struggle for survival in a worldwide desert of despair.

The Crystal World

From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Cocaine Nights comes an acclaimed backlist title the extraordinary vision of an African forest that turns into crystal now reissued in new cover style. Through a ‘leaking’ of time, the West African jungle starts to crystallize. Trees are metamorphosed into enormous jewels. Crocodiles encased in second glittering skins lurch down the river. Pythons with huge blind gemstone eyes rear in heraldic poses. Most men flee the area in terror, afraid to face what they cannot understand. But some, dazzled and strangely entranced, remain to drift through this dreamworld forest. There is a doctor in pursuit of his ex mistress, an enigmatic Jesuit wields a crystal cross, and a tribe of lepers search for Paradise!

Crash

In this hallucinatory novel, an automobile provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a ‘TV scientist’ turned ‘nightmare angel of the highways,’ experiments with erotic atrocities among auto Crash victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted visionary as he careens rapidly toward his own demise in an internationally orchestrated car Crash with Elizabeth Taylor.A classic work of cutting edge fiction, Crash explores both the disturbing implications and horrific possibilities of contemporary society’s increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations.

Concrete Island

On a day in April, just after three o’clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland’s car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost ludicrous predicament soon turns into horror as Maitland a wickedly modern Robinson Crusoe realizes that, despite evidence of other inhabitants, this doomed terrain has become a mirror of his own mind. Seeking the dark outer rim of the everyday, Ballard weaves private catastrophe into an intensely specular allegory.

High-Rise

From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Cocaine Nights comes an acclaimed backlist title the unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control now reissued in new cover style. Within the concealing walls of an elegant forty storey tower block, the affluent tenants are hell bent on an orgy of destruction. Co*cktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on ‘enemy’ floors and the once luxurious amenities become an arena for technological mayhem!In this classic visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as the inhabitants of the high rise, driven by primal urges, recreate a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.

The Unlimited Dream Company

From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller ‘Cocaine Nights’ comes an acclaimed backlist title in which suburban London is transformed into an exotic dreamworld now reissued in new cover style. When a light aircraft crashes into the Thames at Shepperton, the young pilot who struggles to the surface minutes later seems to have come back from the dead. Within hours everything in the dormitory suburb is strangely transformed. Vultures invade the rooftops, luxuriant tropical vegetation overruns the quiet avenues, and the local inhabitants are propelled by the young man’s urgent visions through ecstatic sexual celebrations towards an apocalyptic climax.

The Day of Creation

In parched Port la Nouvelle in central Africa, Dr Mallory watches his clinic fail and dreams of discovering a third Nile to make the Sahara bloom. During the search for water, an ancient tree stump is uprooted by one of his bulldozers and water wells up, spreading until it becomes an enormous river. With the once arid land now abounding in birds and beasts, the obsessed Mallory forges up river in an old car ferry, clashing with hostile factions as he tries to find the source of his own creation.

Running Wild

The thirty two adult members of an exclusive residential community in West London are brutally murdered, and their children are abducted, leaving no trace. Through the forensic diary of Dr. Richard Greville, Deputy Psychiatric Adviser to the London Metropolitan Police, the brutal details of the massacre that has baffled the entire police department unfold.

Rushing to Paradise

J.G. Ballard author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Empire of the Sun’ explores the dangers of extremism in ecology and feminism in this highly acclaimed modern fable. Veteran campaigner Dr Barbara Rafferty’s obsessive crusade to save the albatross on the Pacific atoll of Saint Esprit suddenly gains international support when millions of TV viewers witness the shooting of her young acolyte Neil Dempsey on a foolhardy rescue mission. The coverage that results allows Dr Barbara to turn the deserted island into a sanctuary. It becomes a remote paradise home for Neil, an odd team of eco enthusiasts and idealists and a growing collection of the world’s endangered species, sent there to find protection from extinction. However, as Dr Barbara isolates the residents more and more from the world outside it becomes clear that all on the island is not right. As the men begin to sicken while the women flourish, Neil is forced to question why he remains healthy, and will this change when a new man arrives? Brilliantly unsettling in classic ‘Ballardian’ style, this is a novel in which all expectations are upset and all roles reversed.

Cocaine Nights

In Cocaine Nights, J. G. Ballard stretches the taught canvas of his transgressive vision over the framework of old fashioned mystery. The setting: the swank Spanish resort of Estrella de Mar, where young retirees from Europe’s chillier climes bask in a lifestyle of endless leisure. Into the queasy beauty of this artificial environment steps Charles Prentice, a London travel writer who has come to visit his brother Frank, manager of Club Nautico tennis and swim club by day, coked up discotheque by night. Frank is in jail, having confessed to setting an explosive fire that has taken five alive. Certain the confession was coerced, Charles lances his own investigation. But Frank isn’t interested in salvation, and the Spanish police don’t want their open and shut case corrupted by a meddling Brit. Refusing to abandon his crusade, Charles soon finds himself drawn into Estrella de Mar’s dark underworld, and as Cocaine Nights accelerates toward its disturbing climax, Ballard once again reveals his visionary mastery.

Super-Cannes

A high tech business park on the Mediterranean coast is the setting for crime of the most disturbing kind in this extraordinary new bestseller from the writer widely regarded as Britain’s No 1 living novelist author of Cocaine Nights. Paul Sinclair and his bright young wife Jane drive down to the south of France in his vintage Jaguar so that she can take up a post as doctor to the new community of Eden Olympia, just above Cannes. Multinational companies and their sharpest executives have converged on this high tech business park, tempted by its location and facilities, by its efficiency and its security, and by something far more disquieting. According to its resident psychologist, Wilder Penrose, the community is ‘a huge experiment in how to hothouse the future…
an ideas laboratory for the new millennium’. In such a place, he claims, one is absolutely free to ‘board the escalator of possibility’. Jane does just that. But Paul hesitates before boarding, pausing to look around. He finds what he sees mystifying and unsettling; when he learns that he and his wife have been housed in a villa whose previous occupant had been driven to massacre notable executives on a horrific shooting spree, he begins to look under the surface. For all the dawn to dusk hard work, for all its productivity and profits, Eden Olympia is the venue for games of the most serious sort. So Paul joins in…
On one level Super Cannes is a romantic fable of a husband’s search for a lost wife. But far larger issues are involved that go to the heart of a new kind of social pathology. J.G. Ballard, Britain’s most consistently daring and surprising novelist, has again brought his powers of discovery and dissent, curiosity and wit, to a tale as pacey, gripping and illuminating as his previous bestseller, Cocaine Nights.

Millennium People

Violent rebellion comes to London’s middle clas*ses in the extraordinary new novel from the author of ‘Cocaine Nights’ and ‘Super Cannes’. When a bomb goes off at Heathrow it looks like just another random act of violence to psychologist David Markham. But then he discovers that his ex wife Laura is among the victims. Acting on police suspicions, he starts to investigate London’s fringe protest movements, falling in with a shadowy group based in the comfortable Thameside estate of Chelsea Marina. Led by a charismatic doctor, the group aims to rouse the docile middle clas*ses to anger and violence, to free them from both the self imposed burdens of civic responsibility and the trappings of a consumer society private schools, foreign nannies, health insurance and overpriced housing. Markham, seeking the truth behind Laura’s death, is swept up in a campaign that spirals rapidly out of control. Every certainty in his life is questioned as the cornerstones of middle England become targets and growing panic grips the capital!

Kingdom Come

Never before published in America J. G. Ballard’s capstone novel, a thriller that envisions the collapse of our consumerist culture.A violent novel filled with insidious twists, Kingdom Come follows the exploits of Richard Pearson, a rebellious, unemployed advertising executive, whose father is gunned down by a deranged mental patient in a vast shopping mall outside Heathrow Airport. When the prime suspect is released without charge, Richard’s suspicions are aroused. Investigating the mystery, Richard uncovers at the Metro Centre mall a neo fascist world whose charismatic spokesperson is whipping up the mas*ses into a state of unsustainable frenzy. Riots frequently terrorize the complex, immigrant communities are attacked by hooligans, and sports events mushroom into jingoistic political rallies. In this gripping, dystopian tour de force, J.G. Ballard holds up a mirror to suburban mind rot, revealing the darker forces at work beneath the gloss of consumerism and flag waving patriotism.

The Terminal Beach

J.G. Ballard, author of Empire of the Sun, demonstrates his ability to mix and transcend genres and styles in this collection of short fictions including ‘The Terminal Beach‘, ‘The Gioconda of the Twilight Moon’ and ‘The Illuminated Man’.

The Atrocity Exhibition

First published in 1970 and widely regarded as a prophetic masterpiece, this is a groundbreaking experimental novel by the acclaimed author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Super Cannes’, who has supplied explanatory notes for this new edition. The irrational, all pervading violence of the modern world is the subject of this extraordinary tour de force. The central character’s dreams are haunted by images of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, dead astronauts and car crash victims as he traverses the screaming wastes of nervous breakdown. Seeking his sanity, he casts himself in a number of roles: H bomber pilot, presidential assassin, crash victim, pscyhopath. Finally, through the black, perverse magic of violence he transcends his psychic turmoils to find the key to a bizarre new sexuality.

Vermilion Sands

A novel set in the fictional landscape of the future, Vermillion Sands.

The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard

First published in 1978, this collection of nineteen of Ballard’s best short stories is as timely and informed as ever. His tales of the human psyche and its relationship to nature and technology, as viewed through a strong microscope, were eerily prescient and now provide greater perspective on our computer dominated culture. Ballard’s voice and vision have long served as a font of inspiration for today’s cyber punks, the authors and futurist who brought the information age into the mainstream.

War Fever and Other Stories

A war ravaged Beirut is the setting for the title story of this visionary collection, a tale in which a young street fighter inadvertently discovers how to bring an to the bloodshed only to find that his solution is all too effective as far as some supposedly neutral observers are concerned. Other stories feature an assassination plot against an American astronaut, the leader of an authoritarian religious movement; a man who is destroyed by a car crash and resolves never to leave his apartment again; and the survivor of a toxic waste ship wrecked on a deserted Caribbean island.

The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard

More than one thousand compelling pages from one of the most haunting, cogent, and individual imaginations in contemporary literature. William BoydThe American publication of The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard is a landmark event. Increasingly recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic novelists, J. G. Ballard was a writer of enormous inventive powers, who, in the words of Malcolm Bradbury, possessed, like Calvino, a remarkable gift for filling the empty deprived spaces of modern life with the invisible cities and the wonder worlds of imagination. Best known for his novels, such as Empire of the Sun and Crash, Ballard rose to fame as the ideal chronicler of disturbed modernity The Observer. Perhaps less known, though equally brilliant, were his devastatingly original short stories, which span nearly fifty years and reveal an unparalleled prescience so unique that a new word Ballardian had to be invented. Ballard, who wrote that short stories are the loose change in the treasury of fiction, easily ignored beside the wealth of novels available, regretted the fact that the public had increasingly lost its ability to appreciate them. With 98 pulse quickening stories, this volume helps restore the very art form that Ballard feared was comatose. Ballard’s inimitable style was already present in his early stories, most of them published in science fiction magazines. These stories are surreal, richly atmospheric and splendidly elliptical, featuring an assortment of psychotropic houses, time traveling assassins, and cities without clocks. Over the next fifty years, his fierce imaginative energy propelled him to explore new topics, including the dehumanization of technology, the brutality of the corporation, and nuclear Armageddon. Depicting the human soul as being enervated and corrupted by the modern world New York Times, Ballard began to examine themes like overpopulation, as in Billenium, a claustrophobic imagining of a world of 20 billion people crammed into four square meter rooms, or the false realities of modern media, as in the classic Why I Want to Fu*ck Ronald Reagan, a faux psychological study of the sexual and violent reactions elicited by viewing Reagan s face on television, in which Ballard predicted the unholy fusion of pop culture and sound bite politics thirteen years before Reagan became president. Given Ballard s heightened powers of perception, it is astonishing that the dehumanized world that he apprehended so acutely neither diminished his own febrile imagination nor his engagement with mankind, evident in every story, including two new ones for this American edition. So eerily prophetic is his vision, so commanding are his literary gifts, the import and insight of J. G. Ballard s deeply humanistic and transcendent works can only grow in years to come.

A User’s Guide to the Millennium

Over the course of his career, J.G. Ballard has revealed hidden truths about the modern world. The essays, reviews, and ruminations gathered here spanning the breadth of this long career approach reality with the same sharp prose and sharper vision that distinguish his fiction. Ballard’s fascination for and fixation upon this century take him from Mickey Mouse to Salvador Dali, from Los Angeles to Shanghai, from William Burroughs to Winnie the Pooh, from the future to today.

Quotes

Ballard’s books have remained fresh decades after they were first published, and the thoughts collected in J.G. Ballard: Quotes have worn equally as well. Small enough to fit in a pocket, this book brings together J. G. Ballard’s trenchant thoughts on music, film, celebrity, the rise of corporate media, the death of reality, and much more. Grouped by topics such as ‘Sex: Relationships, Sex x Technology equals the Future, Po*rnography’ and ‘Surrealism, Imagination,’ these Quotes are both concise and clear, and provide a strong beacon for readers who are used to a baffling daily assault of advertiseme*nts, phone calls, and e mails. They are also an excellent resource to help readers better understand Ballard’s novels, which stand among the most visionary, provocative literature of the 20th century. A Ballardian glossary, the essay ‘Guide to Virtual Death,’ and a bibliography round out this excellent resource.

J.G. Ballard Conversations

A highly sought cultural commentator, J. G. Ballard has provided thoughtful remarks on the state of the world for decades. J.G. Ballard Conversations brings together several of Ballard’s latest interviews and gives readers penetrating insight into the mind of one of the freshest thinkers at work today. Covering topics such at the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the evolution of sexual relationships, and our strange, immersive celebrity culture, this book is a fount of provocative takes on the things that matter. Rounded out with rare photographs of Ballard and supplemental resources, J.G. Ballard Conversations is a necessary item for anyone interested in the modern world.

Miracles of Life

Miracles of Life‘ opens and closes in Shanghai, the city where J.G. Ballard was born, and where he spent the most of the Second World War interned with his family in a Japanese concentration camp. In the intervening chapters Ballard creates a memoir that is both an enthralling narrative and a detailed examination of the events which would profoundly influence his work. Beginning with his early childhood spent exploring the vibrant surroundings of pre war Shanghai, Ballard charts the course of his remarkable life from the deprivations and unexpected freedoms of the Lunghua Camp to his return to a Britain physically and psychologically crippled by war. He explores his subsequent involvement in the dramatic social changes of the 1960s, and the adjustments to life following the premature death of his wife. In prose displaying his characteristic precision and eye for detail, Ballard recounts the experiences which would fundamentally shape his writing, while simultaneously providing an striking social analysis of the fragmented post war Britain that lies behind so many of his novels. ‘Miracles of Life‘ is an utterly captivating account of an extraordinary writer’s extraordinary life.

Boy in Darkness and Other Stories (By:Mervyn Peake)

A selection of long out of print short stories, and never before published illustrations, by one of England’s most unique and multi talented artists. ‘Boy in Darkness’, the centerpiece of this collection, will be of special interest to fans of the Gormenghast books, as it comprises a chapter in the life of Titus Groan that unfolds beyond the pages of Peake’s monumental trilogy. Overwhelmed by the pomp and grueling ritual of life in Gormenghast, Titus braves an escape from his hereditary gaol. Beyond the castle walls, Titus wanders into a sinister and soulless land, where he is captured by the grotesque henchmen of an evil master intent on claiming young Titus’s soul. A disturbingly atmospheric tale, told with the force and simplicity of allegory, ‘Boy in Darkness’ distils the strange logic of the Gormenghast trilogy into a story of pith and mystery, which bears comparison with Kafka and Poe. A treasury of classic literature, highly recommended.” The Midwest Book Review ”This compelling new edition of artist writer Peake’s short fiction is decorated with 40 drawing and paintings in both Peake’s principal manners: gorgeously romantic…
and grotesquely energetic…
Does anybody else write like this and so well?” Booklist

The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb (By:Mervyn Peake)

This fills an important gap in the canon of Peake’s works in print. Although written after the Second World War, the poem uses it for its theme. While its central characters, the sailor and the child are symbolic, this was not consciously planned. Peake said of the poem that it shows man’s continuing hopefulness in adversity.

A Book of Nonsense (By:Mervyn Peake)

Known primarily as the author of the very popular Gormenghast novels recently shown on PBS, Mervyn Peake’s 1911 1968 poetry has for some time been widely read and appreciated in the eccentric tradition of Lear, Carroll, and Belloc. From the macabre to the brilliantly off beat, his verse can be enjoyed by all. This collection introduces us to a whole gallery of characters and creatures that are quirky and comical, occasionally alarming, but always magical.

Peake’s Progress (By:Mervyn Peake)

Mervyn Peake 1911 1968 was a prolific and astonishingly original writer and artist, who touched at one time or another on almost every literary form. Peake’s Progress the book, ISBN 9780712358347 is a selection, compiled by his widow, Maeve Gilmore, from every period of his work as a writer and draughtsman. It contains a remarkable work from childhood, ‘The White Chief of the Umzimbooboo Kaffirs’, the early ‘Mr. Slaughterboard’, which foreshadows the ‘Titus’ books, two plays, ‘The Wit to Woo’ and ‘Noah’s Ark’, a broadcast version of ‘Mr Pye’, and a generous selection of Peake’s short stories, poems and nonsense verses as well as his drawings. Including a new preface written by Mervyn Peake’s son, Sebastian, this edition of Peake’s Progress is published to coincide with the centenary of Peake’s birth, and to mark the British Library’s acquisition of Peake’s archives. The double CD set that accompanies the book has been specially recorded by the British Library and is read by Mervyn’s sons Sebastian and Fabian. It features a selection of the short stories and poems included in the book.

Collected Poems (By:Mervyn Peake)

Published to mark the 40th anniversary of his death, this comprehensive edition of the poetry of Mervyn Peake includes pieces that touch on some of the most significant historical moments of the 20th century. His celebrated works range from the unemployment epidemic in pre war Britain to the horrors of the blitz and the concentration camp at Bergen Belsen, with each serving to anchor the fantasy world of his celebrated Gormenghast books. Black and white illustrations, drafted by the author, accompany the verse, along with previously unpublished illustrations and photographs.

Complete Nonsense (By:Mervyn Peake)

Published to mark the 40th anniversary of his death, this comprehensive edition of the poetry of Mervyn Peake includes pieces that touch on some of the most significant historical moments of the 20th century. His celebrated works range from the unemployment epidemic in pre war Britain to the horrors of the blitz and the concentration camp at Bergen Belsen, with each serving to anchor the fantasy world of his celebrated Gormenghast books. Black and white illustrations, drafted by the author, accompany the verse, along with previously unpublished illustrations and photographs.

Dangerous Visions

Anthologies seldom make history, but Dangerous Visions is a grand exception. Harlan Ellison’s 1967 collection of science fiction stories set an almost impossibly high standard, as more than a half dozen of its stories won major awards not surpising with a contributors list that reads like a who’s who of 20th century SF: Samuel D. Delany, Philip K. Dick, Brian Aldiss, Roger Zelazny, Philip Jose Farmer, Fritz Leiber, Larry Niven and Robert Silverberg. Unavailable for 15 years, this huge anthology now returns to print, as relevant now as when it was first published.

Star Book of Horror No. 1

Original mass market paperback by W. H. Allen, 1975, London. Veteran horror monger Hugh Lamb presents a fearsome combination. Stories by : John Blackburn, Robert Bloch, Charles Birkin, Ramsey Campbell, E. F. Benson, J. G. Ballard, John Keir Cross, Joy Burnett, Frederick Cowles and Robert Haining. 156 pp

Great Flying Stories

H. G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Bach, Roald Dahl, Len Deighton and seven other famous writers explore the novelty, the adventure, and the skill of flying, in entertaining stories ranging from the fantastic to the factual.

Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction

The term cyberpunk entered the literary landscape in 1984 to describe William Gibson’s pathbreaking novel Neuromancer. Cyberpunks are now among the shock troops of postmodernism, Larry McCaffery argues in Storming the Reality Studio, marshalling the resources of a fragmentary culture to create a startling new form. Artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, multinational machinations, frenetic bursts of prose, collisions of style, celebrations of texture: although emerging largely from science fiction, these features of cyberpunk writing are, as this volume makes clear, integrally related to the aims and innovations of the literary avant garde. By bringing together original fiction by well known contemporary writers William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Kathy Acker, J. G. Ballard, Samuel R. Delany, critical commentary by some of the major theorists of postmodern art and culture Jacques Derrida, Fredric Jameson, Timothy Leary, Jean Fran ois Lyotard, and work by major practitioners of cyberpunk William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, John Shirley, Pat Cadigan, Bruce Sterling, Storming the Reality Studio reveals a fascinating ongoing dialog in contemporary culture. What emerges most strikingly from the colloquy is a shared preoccupation with the force of technology in shaping modern life. It is precisely this concern, according to McCaffery, that has put science fiction, typically the province of technological art, at the forefront of creative explorations of our unique age. A rich opporunity for reading across genres, this anthology offers a new perspective on the evolution of postmodern culture and ultimately shows how deeply technological developments have influenced our vision and our art. Selected Fiction contributors: Kathy Acker, J. G. Ballard, William S. Burroughs, Pat Cadigan, Samuel R. Delany, Don DeLillo, William Gibson, Harold Jaffe, Richard Kadrey, Marc Laidlaw, Mark Leyner, Joseph McElroy, Misha, Ted Mooney, Thomas Pynchon, Rudy Rucker, Lucius Shepard, Lewis Shiner, John Shirley, Bruce Sterling, William VollmanSelected Non Fiction contributors: Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Fredric Jameson, Arthur Kroker and David Cook, Timothy Leary, Jean Fran ois Lyotard, Larry McCaffery, Brian McHale, Dave Porush, Bruce Sterling, Darko Suvin, Takayuki Tatsumi

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction features over a 150 years’ worth of the best science fiction ever collected in a single volume. The fifty two stories and critical introductions are organized chronologically as well as thematically for classroom use. Filled with luminous ideas, otherworldly adventures, and startling futuristic speculations, these stories will appeal to all readers as they chart the emergence and evolution of science fiction as a modern literary genre. They also provide a fascinating look at how our Western technoculture has imaginatively expressed its hopes and fears from the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century to the digital age of today. A free online teacher’s guide at www. wesleyan. edu/wespress/sfanthologyguide accompanies the anthology and offers access to a host of pedagogical aids for using this book in an academic setting. The stories in this anthology have been selected and introduced by the editors of Science Fiction Studies, the world’s most respected journal for the critical study of science fiction.

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