J. G. Ballard

When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on “enemy” floors....

A chilling novel about our modern world, from the author of Empire of the Sun and Crash....

An underground classic, Crash explores the disturbing potentialities of contemporary society's increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations. In this hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau....

A collection of 98 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories, spanning five decades, venerates the remarkable imagination of J. G. Ballard....

A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of Crash and Super-Cannes....

From J.G. Ballard, author of Crash and Cocaine Nights comes his extraordinary vision of an African forest that turns all in its path to crystal....

Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him....

Within the concealing walls of an elegant 40-storey tower block, the affluent tenants are hell-bent on an orgy of destruction....

Appearing in audio for the first time, this neglected Ballardian masterpiece promises to be a touchstone for environmentalists the world over....

When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds, and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on "enemy" floors....

When a light aircraft crashes into the Thames at Shepperton, the young pilot who struggles to the surface minutes later seems to have come back from the dead....

Millennium People tells the story of David Markham, a psychologist who is searching for the truth behind a bomb that exploded on a Heathrow baggage carousel, killing his ex-wife....

Winner of the Guardian fiction prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize....

Following the energy crisis of the late 20th century, America has been abandoned. Now, a century later, a small group of European explorers returns....

From the author of the Sunday Times best seller Cocaine Nights comes an unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control....

The definitive cult, post-modern novel - a shocking blend of violence, transgression and eroticism....

Yet again J. G. Ballard’s inimitable clairvoyance is on display in this timely, powerful story of a community shattered by a massive act of violence. A massacre rocks a suburban utopia - 32 adults murdered, and their children missing - in Running Wild....

When London is lost beneath the rising tides, unconscious desires rush to the surface in this apocalyptic tale from the author of Crash and Cocaine Nights....

Published in 1991, this semiautobiographical novel is a daring masterpiece. Fifteen-year-old Jim Graham leaves the ruins of postwar Shanghai, only to find that he cannot escape his own obsession with death....

Led by a charismatic and slightly unhinged woman, a group of environmentalists wrest control over a small South Pacific island in hopes of cultivating it into their own private Eden. But paradise is not quite what it seems....