5.0
The Terminal Beach
The Terminal Beach is one of Ballard¿s most brilliant collections of short stories, ranging from the title story¿s disturbing picture of an abandoned atomic testing island in the Pacific to the shocking Oedipal fantasy of ¿The Gioconda of the Twilight 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.
¿One of the few genuine surrealists this country has produced, the possessor of a terrifying and exhilarating imagination ¿ and a national treasure¿ Guardian
Modern fictionScience fictionShort storiesFiction
RELEASED1997
PUBLISHERIndigo
LENGTH220
LANGUAGEEN
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 discovered science fiction in and he began to write science fiction. He left the RAF in 1954 and returned to England. In 1956 he published his science fiction story. In 1960 he committed to writing full-time.
5.0
The Terminal Beach
The Terminal Beach is one of Ballard¿s most brilliant collections of short stories, ranging from the title story¿s disturbing picture of an abandoned atomic testing island in the Pacific to the shocking Oedipal fantasy of ¿The Gioconda of the Twilight 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.
¿One of the few genuine surrealists this country has produced, the possessor of a terrifying and exhilarating imagination ¿ and a national treasure¿ Guardian
Modern fictionScience fictionShort storiesFiction
RELEASED1997
PUBLISHERIndigo
LENGTH220
LANGUAGEEN
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 discovered science fiction in and he began to write science fiction. He left the RAF in 1954 and returned to England. In 1956 he published his science fiction story. In 1960 he committed to writing full-time.
