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4 Sci-Fi books by J. G. Ballard
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Overview: J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, China, where his father was a businessman.

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Ballard and his family were placed in a civilian prison camp. They returned to England in 1946. After two years at Cambridge, where he read medicine, Ballard worked as a copywriter and Covent Garden porter before going to Canada with the RAF. He started writing short stories in the late 1950s, while working on a scientific journal. His first major novel, The Drowned World, was published in 1962. His acclaimed novels include The Crystal World, The Atrocity Exhibition, Crash (filmed by David Cronenberg), High-Rise, The Unlimited Dream Company, The Kindness of Women (the sequel to Empire of the Sun), Cocaine Nights, Super-Cannes, Millennium People and Kingdom Come.

His autobiography, Miracles of Life, was published to great acclaim in 2008. J. G. Ballard died in 2009.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy > Dystopia



High-Rise

When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on "enemy" floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.

The Day of Creation

An unforgettable voyage of the imagination from the bestselling author of Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes.
In parched Port-la-Nouvelle in central Africa, Dr Mallory watches his clinic fail and dreams of discovering a third Nile tributary to make the Sahara bloom. During his search for water an ancient tree stump is accidentally uprooted and water wells up, spreading until it becomes an enormous river. Naming the river after himself, Mallory becomes obsessed with his creation…

The Drowned World

First published in 1962, J.G. Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient novel imagines a terrifying future in which solar radiation and global warming have melted the ice caps and Triassic-era jungles have overrun a submerged and tropical London. Set during the year 2145, the novel follows biologist Dr. Robert Kerans and his team of scientists as they confront a surreal cityscape populated by giant iguanas, albino alligators, and endless swarms of malarial insects. Nature has swallowed all but a few remnants of human civilization, and, slowly, Kerans and his companions are transformed--both physically and psychologically--by this prehistoric environment. Echoing Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness--complete with a mad white hunter and his hordes of native soldiers--this "powerful and beautifully clear" (Brian Aldiss) work becomes a thrilling adventure and a haunting examination of the effects of environmental collapse on the human mind.

Chronopolis

Collection of the author's 16 most favorite stories:

Contents:

The Voices of Time
The Drowned Giant
The Terminal Beach
Manhole 69
Storm-Bird, Storm-Dreamer
The Sound-Sweep
Billenium
Chronopolis
Build-Up
The Garden of Time
End Game
The Watchtowers
Now Wakes the Sea
Zone of Terror
The Cage of Sand
Deep End

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