@booklet {5717, title = {Kingdom Come}, year = {2006}, month = {2006}, publisher = {Fourth Estate}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Contemporary dystopia of consumerism focused on a large mall in the suburbs and the violence and racism that\ surrounds it.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009)} } @booklet {5054, title = {Super-Cannes}, year = {2000}, note = {

U.S. ed. New York: Picador, 2000.

}, month = {2000}, publisher = {Flamingo}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Corporate dystopia.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009)} } @booklet {4007, title = {The Largest Theme Park in the World}, howpublished = {The Guardian}, year = {1989}, note = {

Rpt. in his War Fever (London: William Collins Sons, 1990), 73-80; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 1139-44.\ 

}, month = {July 7, 1989}, pages = {29}, abstract = {

Satire on European union. When the single currency is created all Europeans move to the Mediterranean resorts and refuse to return until non-Europeans start to move in to their abandoned properties.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009)} } @booklet {4008, title = {"Love in a Colder Climate"}, howpublished = {Interview Magazine}, year = {1989}, note = {

Rpt. as \“Love in a Cold Climate.\” Observer Magazine (July 16, 1989): 36-37, 39, 40; as \“Love in a Colder Climate.\” In his War Fever (London: Collins, 1990): 65-72; and in The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 1124-38.

}, month = {January 1989}, pages = {88-90}, abstract = {

As a result of the AIDS epidemic, sex is made compulsory as part of national service for virgins.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009)} } @booklet {3269, title = {Hello America}, year = {1981}, note = {

U.S. ed. New York: Carroll \& Graf, 1988.

}, month = {1981}, publisher = {Jonathan Cape}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopia. The United States had collapsed in the past and an expedition of rediscovery finds it inhabited with a wide variety of dystopian societies.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009)} } @booklet {3070, title = {The Unlimited Dream Company}, year = {1979}, month = {1979}, publisher = {Jonathan Cape}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Mostly fantasy but the setting has utopian elements.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009)} } @booklet {2987, title = {"Motel Architecture"}, howpublished = {Bananas}, volume = {no. 12 }, year = {1978}, note = {

Rpt. in his Myths of the Near Future (London: Jonathan Cape, 1982), 178-94; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 989-99.

}, month = {Autumn 1978}, pages = {34-37}, abstract = {

Dystopia where everyone lives isolated from each other. Machines do most work, with TV repair one exception.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009)} } @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)} } @booklet {2741, title = {High-Rise}, year = {1975}, note = {

Rpt. London: Harper Perennial, 2006 with an added, separately paged section at the end entitled \"P.S. Ideas, interviews \& features . . .\" (1-18), which includes 1977 Ballard (2-10).

}, month = {1975}, publisher = {Jonathan Cape}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopia of violence within an apartment block.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009)} } @booklet {2547, title = {Crash}, year = {1973}, note = {

Rpt. London: Triad/Panther, 1985. This ed. includes Ballard\&$\#$39;s \"Introduction to the French Edition of\ Crash\ (1974)\" (5-9). U.S. ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973.\ 

}, month = {1973}, publisher = {Jonathan Cape}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopia--sex and technology.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009)} } @booklet {8527, title = {The Atrocity Exhibition}, year = {1969}, note = {

Rpt. St. Albans, Eng.: Triad/Panther, 1979. The first U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970, was suppressed and destroyed. The first existing U.S. ed. U.S. ed. as\ Love and Napalm: Export U.S.A. New York: Grove Press, 1972. Parts originally published between 1966 and 1969 as \“The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race.\”\ Ambit, no. 29 (1966): 3-4, rpt. in\ New Worlds SF\ 50.171 (March 1967): 119-21, rpt. in\ England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 393-95; and in his\ The Complete Short Stories\ London: Flamingo, 2001), 720-21; \“The Atrocity Exhibition.\”\ New Worlds SF\ 50.166 (September 1966): 91-102; \“The Assassination Weapon.\”\ New Worlds SF\ 49.161 (April 1966): 4-12; \“You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe.\”\ Ambit, no. 27 (1966): 3-6, rpt. in\ New Worlds SF\ 50.163 (June 1966): 66-71; \“You and Me and the Continuum.\”\ Impulse\ 1.1 (March 1966): 53-60;\  rpt. in\ England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 95-102; \“Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy.\”\ Ambit, no. 31 (Spring 1967): 9-11; rpt. in\ England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 397-401, with a note on the reaction to it on pp. 402-06; \“Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown.\”\ Originally published as \“The Death Module.\”\ New Worlds\ 51.173 (July 1967): 20-25; \“Love and Napalm: Export USA.\”\ Circuit, no. 6 (June 1968): 55-57; \“The Generations of America.\”\ New Worlds, no 183 (October 1968): 13-14; \“The University of Death.\”\ The Transatlantic Review, no. 29 (Summer 1968): 68-79; \“Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan.\”\ International Times\ (1968), rpt. Brighton, Eng.: Unicorn Bookshop, 1968,\ and\ London: Plasnet 1988; and in his\ The Complete Short Stories\ London: Flamingo, 2001), 757-59; \“The Great American Nude.\”\ Ambit, no. 36 (Summer 1968): 39-43; \“Crash!\”\ ICA Eventsheet\ (February 1969); \“The Summer Cannibals.\”\ New Worlds, no. 186 (January 1969): 19-23; and \“Tolerances of the Human Face.\”\ Encounter\ 33.3 (September 1969). New rev. ed. with annotations by the author and four additional stories. San Francisco, CA: RE/SEARCH Publications, 1990. The new stories were previously published as \“Princess Margaret\’s Facelift.\”\ New Worlds, no. 199 (March 1970): 8-; \“Mae West\&$\#$39;s Reduction Mammoplasty.\”\ Ambit, no. 44 (Summer 1970): 9-11; \“Queen Elizabeth\&$\#$39;s Rhinoplasty.\”\ Triquarterly, no. 351\ (Winter 1976): 18-20 [Omitted from all U.K. editions]; and \"The Secret History of World War 3.\"\ Ambit, no. 114 (Autumn 1988): 2-9. The book was first published in Danish translation as\ Grusomhedsudstillingen. Rhodes, 1969.\ Rpt. St. Albans, Eng.: Triad/Panther, 1979. The first U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970, was suppressed and destroyed. The first existing U.S. ed. U.S. ed. as\ Love and Napalm: Export U.S.A. New York: Grove Press, 1972. Parts originally published between 1966 and 1969 as \“The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race.\”\ Ambit, no. 29 (1966): 3-4, rpt. in\ New Worlds SF\ 50.171 (March 1967): 119-21, rpt. in\ England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 393-95; and in his\ The Complete Short Stories\ London: Flamingo, 2001), 720-21; \“The Atrocity Exhibition.\”\ New Worlds SF\ 50.166 (September 1966): 91-102; \“The Assassination Weapon.\”\ New Worlds SF\ 49.161 (April 1966): 4-12; \“You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe.\”\ Ambit, no. 27 (1966): 3-6, rpt. in\ New Worlds SF\ 50.163 (June 1966): 66-71; \“You and Me and the Continuum.\”\ Impulse\ 1.1 (March 1966): 53-;\  rpt. in\ England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 95-102; \“Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy.\”\ Ambit, no. 31 (Spring 1967): 9-11; rpt. in\ England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 397-401, with a note on the reaction to it on pp. 402-06; \“Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown.\”\ Originally published as \“The Death Module.\”\ New Worlds\ 51.173 (July 1967): 20-25; \“Love and Napalm: Export USA.\”\ Circuit, no. 6 (June 1968): 55-57; \“The Generations of America.\”\ New Worlds, no 183 (October 1968): 13-14; \“The University of Death.\”\ The Transatlantic Review, no. 29 (Summer 1968): 68-79; \“Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan.\”\ International Times\ (1968) [Not Found}, rpt. Brighton, Eng.: Unicorn Bookshop, 1968,\ and\ London: Plasnet 1988; and in his\ The Complete Short Stories\ London: Flamingo, 2001), 757-59; \“The Great American Nude.\”\ Ambit, no. 36 (Summer 1968): 39-43; \“Crash!\”\ ICA Eventsheet\ (February 1969); \“The Summer Cannibals.\”\ New Worlds, no. 186 (January 1969): 19-23; and \“Tolerances of the Human Face.\”\ Encounter\ 33.3 (September 1969). New rev. ed. with annotations by the author and four additional stories. San Francisco, CA: RE/SEARCH Publications, 1990. The new stories were previously published as \“Princess Margaret\’s Facelift.\”\ New Worlds, no. 199 (March 1970): 8-; \“Mae West\&$\#$39;s Reduction Mammoplasty.\”\ Ambit, no. 44 (Summer 1970): 9-11; \“Queen Elizabeth\&$\#$39;s Rhinoplasty.\”\ Triquarterly, no. 351\ (Winter 1976): 18-20 [Omitted from all U.K. editions]; and \"The Secret History of World War 3.\"\ Ambit, no. 114 (Autumn 1988): 2-9. The book was first published in Danish translation as\ Grusomhedsudstillingen. Rhodes, 1969.\ 

}, month = {1969}, publisher = {Jonathan Cape. }, address = {London}, abstract = {

Wide-ranging dystopia with the violence of the contemporary world the primary focus.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009)} } @booklet {9451, title = {The Burning World}, year = {1964}, note = {

Better known in an expanded version as The Drought. London: Cape, 1965. Rpt. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968.\ 

}, month = {1964}, publisher = {Berkley Medallion/Berkley Publishing Co}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Climate-change dystopia.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009)} } @booklet {1926, title = {"The Subliminal Man"}, howpublished = {New Worlds Science Fiction}, volume = { 42.126 }, year = {1963}, note = {

Rpt. in In his The Disaster Area (London: Jonathan Cape, 1967), 58-80; in Eco-Fiction. Ed. John Stadler (New York: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, 1971), 158-77; in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 213-30; in Tomorrow, Inc. SF Stories About Big Business. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger, 1976), 117-34; in The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978), 171-88; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 412-35.

}, month = {January 1963}, pages = {109-26}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which subliminal advertising makes the population continually consume.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009)} } @booklet {1879, title = {"The Cage of Sand"}, howpublished = {New Worlds Science Fiction (London)}, volume = {40.119 }, year = {1962}, note = {

Rpt. in The Ruins of Earth: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: G.P. Putnam\’s Sons, 1971), 137-59; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 355-72.

}, month = {55-78}, pages = {June 1962}, abstract = {

Post-catastrophe dystopia where Florida is now. Mostly sand dunes, and people trying to live there are captured by wardens.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009)} } @booklet {9041, title = {The Drowned World}, year = {1962}, note = {

U.S. ed. rpt. in The Drowned World and The Wind from Nowhere. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965. U.K. ed. rpt. London: J. M. Dent \& Sons, 1983; and, with minor changes. London: The Folio Society, 2013, with an Introduction by Will Self (xi-xviii) and Illus. By James Boswell. Expanded from \“The Drowned World.\” Science Fiction Adventures 4.24 (January 1962).

}, month = {1962}, publisher = {Berkley Medallion}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A Ballardian version of a climate change/global warming dystopia set in 2145 in a tropical, abandoned, and flooded London.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009)} } @booklet {1880, title = {"The Insane Ones"}, howpublished = {Amazing Stories }, volume = {36.1 }, year = {1962}, note = {

Rpt. in Great Science Fiction, no. 7 ([1967]): 95-105; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 289-97.

}, month = {January 1962}, pages = {36-46}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which all psychological intervention is illegal, being insane is a protected category, suicide is legal, and it is a crime to interfere with a suicide attempt.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, issn = {0002-6891 }, author = {J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009)} } @booklet {1808, title = {"Billenium"}, howpublished = {New Worlds Science Fiction }, volume = {38.112 }, year = {1961}, note = {

Rpt. in his Billenium (New York: Berkley, 1962), 7-21; in Cities of Wonder. Ed. Damon [Francis] Knight (New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1967), 92-107; and in his Chronopolis and Other Stories (New York: G.P. Putnam\’s Sons, 1971), 137-51; and as \“Billennium\” in his The Terminal Beach (London: Victor Gollancz, 1964), 175-91; in Future Tense. Ed. Richard Curtis (New York: Dell, 1968), 50-65; in Voyages: Scenarios for a Ship Called Earth. Ed. Rob Sauer (New York: Zero Population Growth/Ballantine Books, 1971), 3-23; in The City 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction. Ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1976), 94-109; in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 136-51; in The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978), 125-40; in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 286-301; in his The Complete Short Stories. (London: Flamingo, 2001), 267-78; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 113-25; 2nd ed. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 113-25.

}, month = {November 1961}, pages = {43-58}, abstract = {

Overpopulation dystopia presenting extreme overcrowding.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009)} } @booklet {1770, title = {"Chronopolis"}, howpublished = {New Worlds Science Fiction }, volume = {32.95}, year = {1960}, note = {

Rpt. in his Billenium (New York: Berkley, 1962), 117-39; in his The Four-Dimensional Nightmare (London: Victor Gollancz, 1963), 184-208; in his Chronopolis and Other Stories (New York: G.P. Putnam\’s Sons, 1971), 152-74; in The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978), 43-66; in his The Voices of Time (London: J.M. Dent, 1984), 173-97; and in his The Complete Short Stories. (London: Flamingo, 2001), 150-68.

}, month = {June 1960}, pages = {64-87}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which people had been too concerned with time, and there were clocks everywhere. It was made illegal to have a watch or a clock because timed people could be made to work faster, but with all clocks gone nothing works very well, and the city is almost abandoned. The story focuses on a boy growing up who is fascinated with clocks.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009)} } @booklet {1662, title = {"Build-Up"}, howpublished = {New Worlds Science Fiction}, volume = { 19.55}, year = {1957}, note = {

Rpt. in his Chronopolis and Other Stories (New York: G.P. Putnam\’s Sons, 1971), 175-93. Rpt. as \“The Concentration City.\” In his The Disaster Area (London: Jonathan Cape, 1967), 33-57; in The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978), 1-20; and in his The Complete Short Stories. (London: Flamingo, 2001), 23-38.\ 

}, month = {January 1957}, pages = {52-70}, abstract = {

Overpopulation dystopia. The entire world is one city, and no one knows that the world is round.

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