With a body of work unparalleled in twentieth-century literature, J. G. Ballard is recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic writers in the world. With the much-hailed release ofA master story writerthe maker of unforgettable artifacts in words, each as absolute and perplexing as sculptures unviewable from a single perspective.A revelation; essential reading.Eerie and melancholy, they unsettle like a Dali painting or a Helmut Newton photograph.Ballard is probably the most original English writer of the last century.... the book is indispensable.A collection of 98 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories, spanning five decades, venerates the remarkable imagination of J. G. Ballard.