"The Cage of Sand"

Title"The Cage of Sand"
Year for Search1962
AuthorsBallard, J[ames] G[raham](1930-2009)
Tertiary AuthorsBallard, J. G.
Secondary TitleNew Worlds Science Fiction (London)
Volume / Edition40.119
PaginationJune 1962
Date Published55-78
KeywordsEnglish author, Male author
Annotation

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

Additional Publishers

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.

Holding Institutions

Merril, PSt

Author Note

(1930-2002)

Full Text

1962 Ballard, J[ames] G[raham] (1930-2009). “The Cage of Sand.” New Worlds Science Fiction 40.119 (June 1962): 55-78. 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. Merril, PSt

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