Myths of the Near Future (Panther Books) - Softcover

Ballard, J. G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0586058885 ISBN 13: 9780586058886

Publisher: Grafton, 1984

Synopsis

A superb and varied collection of short stories which show J.G. Ballard at his visionary best. The settings include an American wasteland of drained swimming pools, lushest Knightsbridge, a Japanese prisoner of war camp and a suburb of Cape Kennedy with a population suffering from the bizzare obsession that they have once been astronauts. Humans who prefer the secure realities of television screens to the haphazard fictions of ordinary life, a news documentary through which we witness civil war erupting between extreme right and left in London streets; a holiday resort where the guests never check out which presents a sybaritic solution to European unemployment problems.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grafton
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0586058885
• ISBN 13: 9780586058886
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208