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The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (First Riff: Introductions +...
IN THIS RIFF: Introductions Stories published between 1956 and 1959: “Prima Belladonna” “Escapement” “The Concentration City” “Venus Smiles” “Manhole 69” “Track 12” “The Waiting Grounds” “Now: Zero”...
View Article“A Guide to Virtual Death”— J.G. Ballard
“A Guide to Virtual Death” by J.G. Ballard For reasons amply documented elsewhere, intelligent life on earth became extinct in the closing hours of the 20th Century. Among the clues left to us, the...
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The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (Third Riff: Stories of 1961)
PREVIOUSLY: Introductions + stories 1956-1959 Stories of 1960 IN THIS RIFF: Stories published in 1961: “Studio 5, The Stars” “Deep End” “The Overloaded Man” “Mr. F Is Mr. F” “Billennium” “The Gentle...
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The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (Fourth Riff: Stories of 1962)
PREVIOUSLY: Introductions + stories 1956-1959 Stories of 1960 Stories of 1961 IN THIS RIFF: Nine stories published in 1962: “The Insane Ones” “The Garden of Time” “The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista”...
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The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (Fifth Riff: “The Subliminal Man”)
[Ed. note: Biblioklept originally ran a series of posts on The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard between October 2013 and March 2014.] Today is Black Friday in America. I don’t think it’s...
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The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (Sixth Riff: 1963-1964)
PREVIOUSLY: Introductions + stories 1956-1959 Stories of 1960 Stories of 1961 Stories of 1962 “The Subliminal Man,” Black Friday, and Consumerism IN THIS RIFF: “The Reptile Enclosure” (1963) “A...
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The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (Seventh Riff: 1966)
PREVIOUSLY: Introductions + stories 1956-1959 Stories of 1960 Stories of 1961 Stories of 1962 “The Subliminal Man,” Black Friday, and Consumerism Stories of 1963-1964 IN THIS RIFF: “The Beach...
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The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (Eighth Riff: Closing Out the...
PREVIOUSLY: Introductions + stories 1956-1959 Stories of 1960 Stories of 1961 Stories of 1962 “The Subliminal Man,” Black Friday, and Consumerism Stories of 1963-1964 Stories of 1966 IN THIS RIFF:...
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The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (Ninth Riff: The Seventies)
PREVIOUSLY: Introductions + stories 1956-1959 Stories of 1960 Stories of 1961 Stories of 1962 “The Subliminal Man,” Black Friday, and Consumerism Stories of 1963-1964 Stories of 1966 Closing out the...
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The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (Tenth Riff: The Eighties)
PREVIOUSLY: Introductions + stories 1956-1959 Stories of 1960 Stories of 1961 Stories of 1962 “The Subliminal Man,” Black Friday, and Consumerism Stories of 1963-1964 Stories of 1966 Closing out the...
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The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (Eleventh Riff: The Nineties)
PREVIOUSLY: Introductions + stories 1956-1959 Stories of 1960 Stories of 1961 Stories of 1962 “The Subliminal Man,” Black Friday, and Consumerism Stories of 1963-1964 Stories of 1966 Closing out the...
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The Essential Short Stories of J.G. Ballard
I. “Manhole 69” (1957) II. “Chronopolis” (1960) III. “The Voices of Time” (1960) IV. “The Overloaded Man” (1961) V. “Billennium” (1961) VI. “Thirteen to Centaurus” (1962) VII. “The Subliminal Man”...
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Ballard/Burroughs/James | Hello/Night/Witch (Books acquired 25 Feb. 2022)
Dropped by my beloved sprawling used bookstore yesterday to pick up a new copy of Marlon James’s Moon Witch, Spider King. It’s not exactly the sequel to 2019’s Black Leopard, Red Wolf as much as it is...
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The Robing of the Bride. The title of one of Max Ernst’s most mysterious...
The Robing of the Bride. The title of one of Max Ernst’s most mysterious paintings. An unseen woman is being prepared by two attendants for her marriage, and is dressed in an immense gown of red...
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Ballard/Colquhoun/Gray (Books acquired, 28 April 2023)
After an early spring purge n’ clean, I took a few boxes of books to my local used bookstore. I had intended to browse just a bit and not pick up anything (apart from a few Jeff VanderMeer novels my...
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