@booklet {2921, title = {"The Intensive Care Unit"}, howpublished = {Ambit}, volume = { no.71 }, year = {1977}, note = {

Rpt. in his Myths of the Near Future (London: Jonathan Cape, 1982), 195-205; in his The Complete Short Stories. (London: Flamingo, 2001), 946-52; and in a separately paged section entitled \“P.S. Ideas, interviews \& features . . .\” (1-18) at the end of the reprint of his High-Rise (London: Harper Perennial, 2006), 2-10.\ 

}, month = {1977}, pages = {3-9}, abstract = {

Dystopia where all live isolated, meeting in person is illegal, with meetings of families particularly prohibited, and all communication is by television. The story focuses on a man who chooses to meet his wife and children in person, and they kill each other.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009)} }