- English Science fiction, English Short stories, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, short stories (single author)
The Terminal Beach is one of the most brilliant collections of short stories by the author of Crash and Empire of the Sun. It ranges from the title story's disturbing picture of an abandoned atomic testing island in the Pacific to the shocking Oedipal fantasy 'The Gioconda of the Twight Noon'. At the heart of the stories lies the bitter paradox that the extraordinary creative power of man's imagination is matched only by his reckless instinct for destruction.
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- Author
- J. G. Ballard
- First published
- 1964
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Carroll & Graf Pub, Penguin (Non-Classics), Gollancz
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781857990218
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“ALL day they had moved steadily upstream, occasionally pausing to raise the propellor and cut away the knots of weed, and by 3 o'clock had covered some seventy-five miles.”
James Graham Ballard was born and raised in the International Settlement in Shanghai, China to a chemist. In 1943 the Japanese occupied the International Settlement and Ballard's family was sent to the Lunghua Civilian Assembly Center, where they were interned for two years until the end of World War II. In 1946, Ballard went to England with his mother and sister, and stayed on in England after his mother and sister returned to China to rejoin his father. In 1949 he went to King's College, Cambridge to study medicine, but he began writing fiction and abandoned medicine in 1952 to pursue writing. In 1953 he joined the Air Force and was sent to the Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan to train. There he di
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