J. G. Ballard - Free Library Land Online

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The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China. Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a deep strength greater than all the events that surround him. Shanghai, 1941 -- a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war...and the dawn of a blighted world. Ballard's enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint.]]> Mon, 22 Oct 1984 20:14:57 +0300 Running Wild https://reference.library.land/j-g-ballard/48576-running_wild.html https://reference.library.land/j-g-ballard/48576-running_wild.html

The thirty-two adult members of an exclusive residential community in West London are brutally murdered, and their children are abducted, leaving no trace. Through the forensic diary of Dr. Richard Greville, Deputy Psychiatric Adviser to the London Metropolitan Police, the brutal details of the massacre that has baffled the entire police department unfold.]]> Sat, 22 Oct 1988 20:14:58 +0300 The Day of Creation https://reference.library.land/j-g-ballard/48569-the_day_of_creation.html https://reference.library.land/j-g-ballard/48569-the_day_of_creation.html

On the arid, war-plagued terrain of central Africa, a manic doctor is consumed with visions of transforming the Sahara into a land of abundance. But Dr. Mallory’s obsession quickly spirals dangerously out of control. First published in 1987, this classic Ballard thriller continues to resonate “with dark implications for the future of humanity” (Publishers Weekly).]]> Thu, 22 Oct 1987 20:14:57 +0300 The Complete Short Stories, Volume 2 https://reference.library.land/j-g-ballard/48580-the_complete_short_stories_volume_2.html https://reference.library.land/j-g-ballard/48580-the_complete_short_stories_volume_2.html

The second in a two volume collection of acclaimed short stories by the author of Empire of the Sun, Crash, Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes. JG Ballard is firmly established as one of Britain's most highly regarded and influential novelists. However, during his long career he was also a prolific writer of short stories, many of which show the germination of ideas he used in his longer fiction. This, the second book in a two-volume collection, offers a platform from which to view Ballard's other works. Almost all of his novels had their seeds in short stories and this collection provides an extraordinary opportunity to trace the development of one of Britain's most visionary writers.]]> Wed, 22 Oct 2014 20:14:58 +0300 High-Rise https://reference.library.land/j-g-ballard/48577-high-rise.html https://reference.library.land/j-g-ballard/48577-high-rise.html

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.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Kindness of Women https://reference.library.land/j-g-ballard/48575-the_kindness_of_women.html https://reference.library.land/j-g-ballard/48575-the_kindness_of_women.html

Ballard here writes a brilliant hybrid of autobiography and fiction. The sequel to The Empire of the Sun, this work puts his earlier account of a boy’s experiences in occupied Shanghai in the context of a lifetime. Ballard’s eye has never been more cinematic, and his writing, especially in the love scenes, is a masterful blend of the raw and the tender.]]> Tue, 22 Oct 1991 20:14:58 +0200 The Drowned World https://reference.library.land/j-g-ballard/48573-the_drowned_world.html https://reference.library.land/j-g-ballard/48573-the_drowned_world.html

This fast-paced narrative by the author of CRASH and EMPIRE OF THE SUN is a stunning evocation of a flooded, tropical London of the near future and a foray into the workings of the unconscious mind. Ballard imagines a future world in which global warming has melted the ice-caps and primordial jungles and swamps have returned to a tropical London. As various members of an expedition to the city busy themselves with more or less futile schemes like draining Leicester Square in hope of loot, the central character Kerans moves to a strange acceptance of and assimilation by this lushly transformed world, vanishing into a final epiphany of heat and light. 'The Drowned World' is a potent, sensual mood-piece - jewelled and unforgettable.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Unlimited Dream Company https://reference.library.land/j-g-ballard/48562-the_unlimited_dream_company.html https://reference.library.land/j-g-ballard/48562-the_unlimited_dream_company.html

When a light aircraft crashes into the Thames at Shepperton, the young pilot who struggles to the surface minutes later seems to have come back from the dead. Within hours everything in the dormitory suburb is transformed. Vultures invade rooftops, luxuriant tropical vegetation overruns the quiet avenues, and the local inhabitants are propelled by the young man’s urgent visions through ecstatic sexual celebrations toward an apocalyptic climax. In this characteristically inventive novel Ballard displays to devastating effect the extraordinary imagination that has established him as one of the twentieth century’s most visionary writers.]]> Mon, 22 Oct 1979 20:14:56 +0300 The Wind From Nowhere https://reference.library.land/j-g-ballard/48572-the_wind_from_nowhere.html https://reference.library.land/j-g-ballard/48572-the_wind_from_nowhere.html

The wind came from nowhere … a super-hurricane that blasted round the globe at hundreds of miles per hour burying whole communities beneath piles of rubble, destroying all organized life and driving those it did not kill to seek safety in tunnels and sewers – where they turned against each other in their desperate struggle to survive.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 Concrete Island https://reference.library.land/j-g-ballard/48579-concrete_island.html https://reference.library.land/j-g-ballard/48579-concrete_island.html

On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost ludicrous predicament in Concrete Island soon turns into horror as Maitland - a wickedly modern Robinson Crusoe - realizes that, despite evidence of other inhabitants, this doomed terrain has become a mirror of his own mind. Seeking the dark outer rim of the everyday, Ballard weaves private catastrophe into an intensely specular allegory.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 Vermilion Sands https://reference.library.land/j-g-ballard/48570-vermilion_sands.html https://reference.library.land/j-g-ballard/48570-vermilion_sands.html

Like a latter-day Palm Springs, Vermillion Sands is a fully automated desert resort designed to fulfill the most exotic whims of the idle rich. But now it languishes in uneasy decay, populated only by forgotten movie stars, solitary impresarios and artistic and literary failures, a place where love and lust pall before the stronger pull of evil. Contents: · The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral D [Vermillion Sands] · ss F&SF Dec ’67
· Prima Belladonna [Vermillion Sands] · ss Science-Fantasy #20 ’56
· The Screen Game [Vermillion Sands] · nv Fantastic Oct ’63
· The Singing Statues [Vermillion Sands] · ss Fantastic Jul ’62
· Cry Hope, Cry Fury! [Vermillion Sands] · ss F&SF Oct ’67
· Venus Smiles [“Mobile”; Vermillion Sands] · ss Science-Fantasy #23 ’57
· Say Goodbye to the Wind [Vermillion Sands] · ss Fantastic Aug ’70
· Studio 5, The Stars [Vermillion Sands] · nv Science-Fantasy #45 ’61
· The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista [Vermillion Sands] · nv Amazing Mar ’62]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 Super-Cannes https://reference.library.land/j-g-ballard/48571-super-cannes.html https://reference.library.land/j-g-ballard/48571-super-cannes.html

Eden-Olympia is more than just a multinational business park, it is a virtual city-state in itself, built for the most elite high-tech industries. Isolated and secure, the residents lack nothing, yet one day, a doctor at the clinic goes on a suicidal shooting spree. Dr. Jane Sinclair is hired as his replacement, and her husband Paul uncovers the dangerous psychological vents that maintain Eden-Olympia's smoothly-running surface.]]> Sun, 22 Oct 2000 20:14:57 +0300 You Coma Marilyn Monroe https://reference.library.land/j-g-ballard/48564-you_coma_marilyn_monroe.html https://reference.library.land/j-g-ballard/48564-you_coma_marilyn_monroe.html

]]> Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:14:57 +0300 Kindness of Women https://reference.library.land/j-g-ballard/709314-kindness_of_women.html https://reference.library.land/j-g-ballard/709314-kindness_of_women.html

The fascinating, and largely autobiographical, sequel to J G Ballard's prize-winning 'Empire of the Sun', that follows Jim to post-war England. 'The Kindness of Women' continues the story of the boy whose life in Japanese-occupied Shaghai was described so memorably in 'Empire of the Sun'. it sets those traumatic events within the context of a lifetime as we follow the narrator, Jim, to England after the war. He tries and fails to find stability as a medical student at Cambridge and a trainee RAF pilot in Canada. Then, after settling happily into family life, his world is ripped apart by domestic tragedy. He plunges into the maelstrom of the 1960s, an instigator and subject of every aspect of cultural, social and sexual experimentation. All this and much more, we see as the attempt of a bruised mind to make sense of the uphaval around it.]]> Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:30:59 +0200