 | Millennium People by J. G. Ballard
Buy new: £11.21 / Used from: £1.64 Ballard's Fight Club? Black comic fun in contemporary London *****
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 | A User's Guide to the Millennium: Essays and Reviews by J. G. Ballard
Buy used from: £18.00 Brilliant collection of essays & reviews...*****
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 | The Complete Short Stories by J. G. Ballard
Definitive collection of short-stories with hard to find shorts & the various collections: Terminal Beach, War Fever et al *****
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 | The Drowned World (S.F. Masterworks) by J.G. Ballard
Buy used from: £24.99 Nice reissue of Ballard's debut proper; SF Masterworks are a great series *****
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 | The Drought (1960s A) by J. G. Ballard
Buy new: £1.14 / Used from: £0.01 From floods to...a post-apocalyptic Joseph Conrad? ****
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 | The Crystal World (Flamingo Modern Classic) by J. G. Ballard
Buy new: £3.07 / Used from: £1.50 The last part in Ballard's loose ecological disaster trilogy *****
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 | The Atrocity Exhibition: Annotated (Flamingo Modern Classics) by J. G. Ballard
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £3.00 Not as nice an edition as the big one from the early 90s; mindblowing stuff anyway- especially with the annotations! *****
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 | Crash by J. G. Ballard
Buy used from: £4.74 From TAE's Crash! chapter came this; love the revised intro. Baudrillard writes about this in Simulacra &Simulation. Part 1 of the so-called Urban Disaster Trilogy *****
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 | Concrete Island by J. G. Ballard
Buy used from: £13.10 The second part: Robinson Crusoe in the heart of the city...*****
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 | High-rise (Flamingo Modern Classic) by J. G. Ballard
Buy new: £2.83 / Used from: £3.50 The third & finest part...why hasn't a film of this been made?????? *****
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 | The Unlimited Dream Company by J. G. Ballard
Shepperton, another crash, another aircraft: it's a strange world, it really is ***
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 | Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard
Buy used from: £0.02 Here is probably his best novel- where the imagery of his earlier work made perfect sense *****
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 | The Kindness of Women by J. G. Ballard
Buy new: £3.20 / Used from: £1.98 & it's underrated follow-up...****
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 | Cocaine Nights by J. G. Ballard
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £0.01 This one proved quite popular, though I thought that its follow-up was better ***
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 | Super-Cannes by J. G. Ballard
Buy new: £3.77 / Used from: £0.01 Thought this was very strong: Nietzsche, Alice in Wonderland, enigmatic mass killings etc *****.
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 | Vermilion Sands by J. G. Ballard
Buy new: £6.39 / Used from: £2.50 Another underrated work. ****
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 | The Terminal Beach by J.G. Ballard
Buy used from: £1.99 Classic short-story collection. Love the title story...*****
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 | Voices Of Time by J.G. Ballard
Buy used from: £5.00 & another collection of key SF New Wave short stories. Chronopolis & Billennium great fun *****
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 | War Fever by J. G. Ballard
Buy used from: £3.99 A later collection of typically beguiling short-stories ****
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 | Myths of the Near Future by J. G. Ballard
Buy used from: £1.50 & another collection featuring familiar Ballardian themes...****
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 | Running Wild (Modern classics) by J. G. Ballard
Buy used from: £2.74 Amusing novella ***
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 | The Wind from Nowhere (Science fiction) by J. G. Ballard
Buy used from: £5.00 The disowned debut that Ballard wrote either on a holiday or after a day's work...Should be reissued as a curio! ?
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 | The Venus Hunters by J. G. Ballard
Buy used from: £0.01 Another interesting collection...***
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 | Rushing to Paradise by J. G. Ballard
Buy used from: £0.33 Slightly overfamiliar territory, but an entertaining read...***
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 | The Disaster Area by J. G. Ballard
Buy used from: £1.36 & another collection...though you could just save ££$$$$ by getting the Complete Short Stories ***
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