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This first volume in a two volume collection of the acclaimed short stories by the author of Empire of the Sun , Crash , Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes - regarded by many as Britain's No. 1 living fiction writer. With sixteen novels over four decades - from The Drowned World in 1962 to his highly acclaimed Super-Cannes in 2000 - J.G. Ballard is firmly established as one of Britain's most celebrated and original novelists. For all that time he has also written short stories; in fact, many people consider that he is at his best in the short-story format. These highly influential stories have appeared in magazines such as New Worlds , Amazing Stories and Interzone , and in several separate collections, including The Voices of Time , The Terminal Beach , The Day of Forever , The Venus Hunters , The Disaster Area , Vermilion Sands , Low-Flying Aircraft , Myths of the Near Future and War Fever . Set out in the order in which they were originally published, these stories provide an unprecedented opportunity to review the career of one of Britain's greatest writers.

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