"The Intensive Care Unit"
| Title | "The Intensive Care Unit" |
| Year for Search | 1977 |
| Authors | Ballard, J[ames] G[raham](1930-2009) |
| Tertiary Authors | Ballard, J. G. |
| Secondary Title | Ambit |
| Volume / Edition | no.71 |
| Pagination | 3-9 |
| Date Published | 1977 |
| Keywords | English author, Male author |
| Annotation | 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. |
| Additional Publishers | 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. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | (1930-2009) |
| Full Text | 1977 Ballard, J[ames] G[raham] (1930-2009). “The Intensive Care Unit.” Ambit, no.71 (1977): 3-9. 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. PSt 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. |
