J.G. Ballard

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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1962
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 34 titles

  • The Drowned World

    • / Science Fiction
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    A debut novel, set in London in the near future. The capital city has been flooded and transformed into a tropical location where social aberrations only serve as an indicator of the level of corruption of the modern mentality....

  • The Crystal World

    • / General Fiction
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    The Crystal World, J. G. Ballard's fourth novel, which established his reputation as a writer of extraordinary talent and imaginative powers, tells the story of a physician specializing in the treatment of leprosy who is invited to a small outpost in...

  • The Recognition

    in Dangerous Visions #3

  • Chronopolis, and Other Stories

  • Crash

    • / Science Fiction
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    The Definitive Cult, Postmodern Novel -- a Shocking Blend of Violence, Transgression, and Eroticism -- Reissued with a New Introduction from Zadie SmithWhen J. G. Ballard, our narrator, smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of h...

  • The Wind from Nowhere

    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...

  • High-Rise

    The classic novel of luxury and depravity, now a major motion picture. From the author of the celebrated dystopian classics Kingdom Come, The Drowned World, and The Drought, High Rise is a prescient story of class warfare. The film adaptation by accl...

  • The Drought

    An apocalyptic dystopia like no other, one whose "originality and power [of] vision can be felt" (Times Literary Supplement).Water. Man’s most precious commodity is a luxury of the past. Radioactive waste from years of industrial dumping has caused...

  • Chronopolis



  • Empire of the Sun

    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 strength greater th...

  • The Disaster Area

  • Concrete Island

    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 predica...

  • The Terminal Beach

  • Running Wild

    Yet again J. G. Ballard’s inimitable clairvoyance is on display in this timely, powerful story of a community shattered by a massive act of violence. A massacre rocks a suburban utopia -- thirty-two adults murdered, and their children missing -- in...

  • Vermilion Sands

    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 a...

  • Hello America

    "This fable lifts a great freight of ideas effortlessly…The story of an expedition driven on by wishes of possession and power but guided internally by myths of America whose sources lie in the late 20th century." -- Guardian Following the energy ...

  • War Fever and Other Stories

    A war-ravaged Beirut is the setting for the title story of this visionary collection, a tale in which a young street fighter inadvertently discovers how to bring an to the bloodshed only to find that his solution is all too effective as far as som...

  • The Atrocity Exhibition

    A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of ''Crash'' and ''Super-Cannes''. This edition includes explanatory notes from the author.The irrational, all-pervading violence of the modern world is the subject of th...

  • The Kindness of Women

    A must-read for any J. G. Ballard fan, this “capstone to a magnificent career” is the essential sequel to Empire of the Sun (San Francisco Chronicle). Published in 1991, this semi-autobiographical novel is a daring masterpiece from “one of the ...



  • Myths of the Near Future

  • Rushing to Paradise

    "[A] chilling . . . tale about humans who gamely follow their own worst instincts.” -- Chicago Tribune Led by a charismatic and slightly unhinged woman, a group of environmentalists wrest control over a small South Pacific island in hopes of cultiv...

  • Cocaine Nights

    In Cocaine Nights, J. G. Ballard stretches the taught canvas of his transgressive vision over the framework of old-fashioned mystery. The setting: the swank Spanish resort of Estrella de Mar, where young retirees from Europe's chillier climes bask in...

  • The Day of Creation

    "Compulsively absorbing: the white heat of its images seems to burn off the page, and the surreal landscapes linger on in the mind." -- Independent On the arid, war-plagued terrain of central Africa, a manic doctor is consumed with visions of transf...

  • Super-Cannes

    Long-regarded as one of the true visionary writers of the twentieth century, J.G. Ballard was one of the first British writers of the post-war period to begin to see, and to map out in his fiction, the future course of our civilization. For forty yea...

  • The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard

    First published in 1978, this collection of nineteen of J. G. Ballard's best short stories is as timely and informed as ever. His tales of the human psyche and its relationship to nature and technology, as viewed through a strong microscope, were eer...

  • Memories of the Space Age

    Ballard ( Empire of the Sun ; The Day of Creation ) is arguably the pre-eminent living science-fiction writer, and recognized as a literary force by readers and critics outside the SF field. This collection brings together Ballard's ``Cape Canaveral ...

  • The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard

    Named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle A collection of 98 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories, spanning five decades, venerates the remarkable imagination of...

  • Millennium People

    No writer, certainly no fiction writer, has examined in recent times the profound social malaise of the middle classes as presciently as Ballard, whose penultimate novel, Millennium People, a brilliant political satire, is filled with stunning psycho...

  • Kingdom Come

    A violent novel filled with insidious twists, Kingdom Come follows the exploits of Richard Pearson, a rebellious, unemployed advertising executive, whose father is gunned down by a deranged mental patient in a vast shopping mall outside Heathrow Airp...



  • Extreme Metaphors

    A startling and at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J.G. Ballard's greatest interviews. ...

  • The Unlimited Dream Company

    "A remarkable piece of invention, a flight from the world of the familiar and the real into the exotic universe of dream and desire." -- New York Times Book Review When a light aircraft crashes into the Thames at Shepperton, the young pilot who stru...

  • Terminal Atrocity Zone

    "Terminal Atrocity Zone" examines a critical 7-year period in the work of author J G Ballard, ranging from 1966 to 1973. During this time, Ballard produced the series of "condensed novels” which would eventually form his book The Atrocity Exhibitio...

  • War Fever

    A war-ravaged Beirut is the setting for the title story of this visionary collection, a tale in which a young street fighter inadvertently discovers how to bring an to the bloodshed only to find that his solution is all too effective as far as some s...

  • A User's Guide to the Millennium

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

J.G. Ballard has published 34 books.

J.G. Ballard does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A User's Guide to the Millennium, was published in September 2021.

The first book by J.G. Ballard, The Drowned World, was published in January 1962.

No. J.G. Ballard does not write books in series.
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