"Build-Up"

Title"Build-Up"
Year for Search1957
AuthorsBallard, J[ames] G[raham](1930-2009)
Tertiary AuthorsBallard, J. G.
Secondary TitleNew Worlds Science Fiction
Volume / Edition 19.55
Pagination52-70
Date PublishedJanuary 1957
KeywordsEnglish author, Male author
Annotation

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

Additional Publishers

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. 

Title Note

Rpt. as "The Concentration City.” 

Holding Institutions

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Author Note

(1930-2009)

Full Text

1957 Ballard, J[ames] G[raham] (1930-2009). “Build-Up.” New Worlds Science Fiction 19.55 (January 1957): 52-70. 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. L, MoU-St, PSt

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