The Terminal Beach
A collection of science fiction short stories.
Contents:
UK edition:
- The Terminal Beach
- A Question of Re-entry
- The Drowned Giant
- End-Game
- The Illuminated Man
- The Reptile Enclosure
- The Delta at Sunset
- Deep End
- The Volcano Dances
- Billennium
- The Gioconda of the Twilight Noon
- The Lost Leonardo
US edition:
- End-Game
- The Subliminal Man
- The Last Word of Mr. Goddard
- The Time Bombs
- Now Wakes the Sea
- The Venus Hunters
- Minus One
- The Sudden Afternoon
- The Terminal Beach
J. G. Ballard
James Graham Ballard (1930–2009) was a British novelist and short story writer who was a prominent part of the New Wave in science fiction in the mid- to late-1960s and whose work frequently focused on dystopian themes.
J. G. Ballard's best known books are the controversial novel Crash, an exploration of sexual fetishism connected to automobile accidents, and the semi-autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun, about his childhood internment by the Japanese during World War II after the invasion and conquest of Shanghai, where Ballard was born in the International Settlement. Both books were adapted into films, by David Cronenberg and Stephen Spielberg respectively.