[The Complete Short Stories 01] • The Complete Short Stories

“More than one thousand compelling pages from one of the most haunting, cogent, and individual imaginations in contemporary literature.”—William Boyd

J. G. Ballard should be recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic writers in the world. Here, in his Complete Stories , readers can finally celebrate the unparalleled range and the mesmerizing cadences of a literary genius, who “like Calvino, [has] a remarkable gift for filling the empty, deprived spaces of modern life” (Malcolm Bradbury). With 92 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories, spanning five decades, and featuring such classics as “Prima Belladonna,” “Dead Time,” and “The Index,” Ballard’s Complete Stories evokes Kafka and Borges with its ability to render psychosis, modern paranoia, and fantastical creations on the page. Whether writing about musical orchids, human cannibalism, or the secret history of World War III, Ballard is one of the most inventive of twentieth-century writers, and has endowed the world with such a humanistic and transcendent vision that his influence will grow in years to come.