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1	Empire of the Sun more books like this by J G Ballard add to wishlist In this highly autobiographical novel, the protagonist, a boy named Jim, is interred in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in China during World War II--separated from his parents, and forced to struggle for survival in an alien world. The story culminates in the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.43! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Crash more books like this by J G Ballard add to wishlist Critics have labeled Ballard's classic "pornographic"--both as criticism and as praise. It is the story of a man obsessed with sex who is drawn into a demimonde of individuals who combine car crashes and drugs with a variety of sexual acts. A disturbing document on the influence of technology and sexuality in culture, this is the first in a loose ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.77! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Atrocity Exhibition more books like this by J. G. Ballard add to wishlist First published in 1970 and widely regarded as a prophetic masterpiece, this is a groundbreaking experimental novel by the acclaimed author of "Crash" and "Super-Cannes", who has supplied explanatory notes for this new edition. The irrational, all-pervading violence of the modern world is the subject of this extraordinary tour de force. The ... see all copies from $2.45! new only from $9.08! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Cocaine Nights more books like this by J G Ballard add to wishlist Charles Prentice goes to Costa del Sol to spring his arsonist-murderer brother Frank from prison. Despite Frank's confession, Charles doesn't believe he did it. This thriller, which begins like a conventional mystery, eventually becomes a classically quirky and unsettling Ballard tale. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.51! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	The Drought more books like this by J G Ballard add to wishlist The world is threatened by dramatic climate change in this highly acclaimed and influential novel, one of the most important early works by the bestselling author of 'Cocaine Nights' and 'Super-Cannes'. Water. Man's most precious commodity is a luxury of the past. Radioactive waste from years of industrial dumping has caused the sea to form a ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $9.05! \| first editions
6	The Crystal World more books like this by J. G. Ballard add to wishlist From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Cocaine Nights comes an acclaimed backlist title -- the extraordinary vision of an African forest that turns into crystal -- now reissued in new cover style. Through a 'leaking' of time, the West African jungle starts to crystallize. Trees are metamorphosed into enormous jewels. Crocodiles encased in ... see all copies from $3.95! new only from $5.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Kindness of Women more books like this by J G Ballard add to wishlist A hybrid of autobiography and fiction, this is a sequel to "The Empire of the Sun." It ends with the filming of that novel by Stephen Spielberg, and Ballard's participation in the project. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Drowned World more books like this by J G Ballard add to wishlist In the 21st century, fluctuations in solar radiation have caused the ide-caps to melt and the seas to rise. Global temperatures have climbed, and civilization has retreated to the Arctic and Antarctic circles. London is a city now inundated by a primeval swamp, to which an expedition travels to record the flora and fauna of this new Triassic Age. ... see all copies from $5.93! new only from $8.76! \| first editions
9	The Day of Creation more books like this by J G Ballard add to wishlist In parched Port-la-Nouvelle in central Africa, Dr Mallory watches his clinic fail and dreams of discovering a third Nile to make the Sahara bloom. During the search for water, an ancient tree stump is uprooted by one of his bulldozers and water wells up, spreading until it becomes an enormous river. With the once arid land now abounding in birds ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton: An Autobiography more books like this by J G Ballard add to wishlist 'Miracles of Life' opens and closes in Shanghai, the city where J.G.Ballard was born, and where he spent the most of the Second World War interned with his family in a Japanese concentration camp. In the intervening chapters Ballard creates a memoir that is both an enthralling narrative and a detailed examination of the events which would ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $11.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard more books like this by J G Ballard add to wishlist This is a reprint of a collection first published in 1978. It presents a selection of stories on themes for which Ballard is well known, such as the human psyche's relationship to technology and nature. Ballard was a precursor of the cyberpunks, and known for his insight into humanity's place in the modern world. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.63! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Concrete Island more books like this by J G Ballard add to wishlist The second book in Ballard's loose trilogy examining technological culture. Following a car wreck in which both of his legs are broken, a man is trapped in a huge freeway median--the "island" of the title--where he discovers a very strange subculture thriving. see all copies from $2.41! new only from $5.59! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Millennium People more books like this by J G Ballard add to wishlist A mysterious figure sparks a rebellion among London's middle classes in the extraordinary new novel from the author of Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes. A bomb at Heathrow appears to psychologist David Markham to be just one more random act of meaningless violence, until he discovers that his ex-wife Laura is among the victims. Following up police ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $6.08! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Super-Cannes more books like this by J G Ballard add to wishlist When a doctor and her husband, a retired pilot, arrive in Eden-Olympia, they are confronted with a bit of a mystery. The investigation into the murder spree and suicide by the previous doctor in the exclusive (very, very exclusive) community outside of Cannes runs into a series of snags when it begins to look like the doctor not only didn't kill ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15	Empire of Sun more books like this by J G Ballard add to wishlist In this highly autobiographical novel, the protagonist, a boy named Jim, is interred in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in China during World War II--separated from his parents, and forced to struggle for survival in an alien world. The story culminates in the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
16	The Wind from Nowhere more books like this by J G Ballard add to wishlist see all copies from $7.00! first editions
17 view cover	The complete short stories by J. G. Ballard add to wishlist With 16 novels over four decades, J.G. Ballard is firmly established as one of Britain's most highly-regarded novelists. Throughout his career he has also written short fiction - this text is a collection of all of his published short stories. see all copies from $15.60! new only from $15.60! \| first editions
18 view cover	High-Rise more books like this by J G Ballard add to wishlist The third novel in Ballard's loose trilogy examining technological culture. A man moves into a relatively new apartment tower block, one of three in an enormous complex. As the apartments are rented, conflicts develop between the residents, who split into factions, and eventually there is a complete breakdown in the social order. The inhabitants ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $8.86! \| first editions
19 view cover	Kingdom Come [Import] by J.G. Ballard add to wishlist A masterpiece of fiction from J. G. Ballard, which asks could Consumerism turn into Facism? Richard Pearson, unemployed advertising executive and life-long rebel, is driving out to Brooklands, a motorway town on the M25. A few weeks earlier his father was fatally wounded at the Metro-Centre, a vast shopping mall in the centre of this apparently ... see all copies from $9.20! new only from $9.20!
20 view cover	The Unlimited Dream Company more books like this by J G Ballard add to wishlist From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller 'Cocaine Nights' comes an acclaimed backlist title -- in which suburban London is transformed into an exotic dreamworld -- now reissued in new cover style. 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 ... see all copies from $3.47! new only from $8.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Myths of the Near Future more books like this by J. G. Ballard add to wishlist A collection of ten short stories originally written for magazines such as "Time Out" in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The settings include an American wasteland of drained swimming pools, lushest Knightsbridge, a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, and a suburb of Cape Kennedy. see all copies from $3.18! new only from $136.12! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Hello America more books like this by J. G. Ballard add to wishlist A sequel to "The Unlimited Dream Company". By the year 2030 the American continent has been abandoned. On board the "SS Apollo" are the descendants of Americans who left their homeland when the economy collapsed. Now, a century later, an expedition from Europe reaches the Atlantic coast. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $8.93! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	A User's Guide to the Millennium: Essays and Reviews more books like this by J G Ballard add to wishlist Ninety pieces written between 1963 and 1995, in which Ballard considers such phenomena as Nancy Reagan, Elvis, relativity, sexual politics, Coca-Cola and the gene pool. see all copies from $2.14! new only from $4.50! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Running Wild more books like this by Ballard add to wishlist In the extremely exclusive closed residential enclave of the Pangbourne Estates, a police psychiatrist seeks to discover what happened during a 20- minute period when 32 adults were killed and their 13 children vanished. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.43! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	J.G. Ballard Conversations more books like this by J G Ballard, V Vale (Editor) add to wishlist A highly sought cultural commentator, J. G. Ballard has provided thoughtful remarks on the state of the world for decades. "J.G. Ballard Conversations" brings together several of Ballard's latest interviews and gives readers penetrating insight into the mind of one of the freshest thinkers at work today. Covering topics such at the 9/11 terrorist ... see all copies from $8.57! new only from $9.29! \| signed copies \| first editions

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