Chronopolis and Other Stories
A collection of science fiction short stories.
Contents:
- The Concentration City
- Manhole
- Chronopolis
- The Voices of Time
- Deep End
- The Overloaded Man
- Billennium
- The Garden of Time
- Thirteen for Centaurus
- The Subliminal Man
- The Cage of Sand
- End Game
- The Drowned Giant
- The Terminal Beach
- The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral D
- The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race
- The Atrocity Exhibition
- Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy
- Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan
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.