- Hardcover: 200 pages
- Publisher: Gollancz; New edition edition (1 Jan 1985)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0575035153
- ISBN-13: 978-0575035157
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 16.7 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,818,302 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From the author of CRASH, a collection of short stories. Includes THE OVERLOADED MAN, CHRONOPOLIS and THE GARDEN OF TIME.
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SALES POINTS Reissued in a new cover style alongside The Terminal Beach J G Ballard is widely recognised as one of the finest writers of the 20th century His novel Empire of the Sun won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was later filmed by Steven Spielberg. 'The first thing to say about J G Ballard is not that he is among our finest writers of science fiction but that he is among our finest writers of fiction tout court period' Anthony Burgess Anthony Burgess praised Ballard's story 'The Garden of Time' as 'one of the most beautiful stories of the world canon of short fiction'
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'The Voices of Time', along with 'The Terminal Beach' collects the early SF new-wave of JG Ballard. Moving from his disowned debut ('The Wind from Nowhere'?) to the geophysical shifts of 'The Drowned World', 'The Drought' & 'The Crystal World'...This collection was originally published as 'The Four-Dimensional Nightmare'- with the stories 'Prima Belledonna' and 'Studio 5, The Stars'- here replaced by 'The Overloaded Man' and 'Thirteen to Centaurus'. The title story seems to be a tryout for novels like 'High Rise'- the highlights are 'The Overloaded Man' (a common theme explored), 'Chronopolis' (one of his most SF works, along with 'Billennium') and the best, 'The Gardens of Time'. A blend of the imagery of 'The Crystal World' with a fracture of time in the mode of 'Last Year at Marienbad'. Along with 'The Terminal Beach', this collection set Ballard on his journey towards 'inner space' (see the SF-essays in 'A User's Guide to The Millennium'). This is a great collection- but I would reccomend- for a few more $$$$'s & ££££££'s 'The Collected Short Stories'- which takes in all of Ballard's short-stories (including those dropped from 'The Four-Dimensional Nightmare'). 'The Voices of Time' remains a highpoint and is a great collection of short-stories.
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