The Terminal Beach

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The Terminal Beach

cover of the first edition
Author J. G. Ballard
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Science fiction short stories
Publisher Victor Gollancz Ltd
Publication date 1964
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 221 pp
ISBN 1857990218

The Terminal Beach (ISBN 1857990218) is a collection of science fiction short stories by the British author J. G. Ballard, published in 1964.

Contents

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[edit] British edition

  • "The Terminal Beach" - A man who does not come to terms with the premature death of his wife and son steals away onto an island once used for testing nuclear weapons. Between the decaying buildings on the island, the reader follows his mental and physical decline.
  • "A Question of Re-entry" - This story has some parallels to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, with the protagonist traveling upriver in the Amazon rain forest, to meet a European who went native. The story evolves around the clash between civilization based knowledge and native belief.
  • "The Drowned Giant" - A giant human(oid) body washes ashore. The initial wonder soon gives way to banality, until the carcass has disappeared. With the disappearance comes even negation that it was even human-like.
  • "End-Game" - A psychological match between a person on Death Row, who lives with his executioner in a comfortable house, and does not know the time and day of his execution. To pass the time, they are playing Chess and at the same time the death candidate tries to win a game of persuasion.
  • "The Illuminated Man" - A precursor to the novel The Crystal World.
  • "The Reptile Enclosure"
  • "The Delta at Sunset"
  • "Deep End"
  • "The Volcano Dances"
  • "Billennium"
  • "The Gioconda of the Twilight Noon"
  • "The Lost Leonardo"
US edition, Berkley Books, 1964.
US edition, Berkley Books, 1964.

[edit] US Edition

  • "End-Game"
  • "The Subliminal Man"
  • "The Last Word of Mr. Goddard"
  • "The Time Bombs"
  • "Now Wakes the Sea"
  • "The Venus Hunters"
  • "Minus One"
  • "The Sudden Afternoon"
  • "The Terminal Beach"

[edit] The Terminal Beach Project

Inspired by J.G. Ballard's short story, Terminal Beach is an ongoing project (initiated by interdisciplinary artists and researchers Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson) operating in the sphere of experimental/outsider music, image and text. A zone of critical and he(u)retical reflection, montage, deterritorialization, discovery, vertigo, dérive. terminal beach blog

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Works by J. G. Ballard
Novels:

The Wind From Nowhere (1961) • The Drowned World (1962) • The Burning World (1964) • The Crystal World (1966) • The Atrocity Exhibition (1969) • Crash (1973) • Concrete Island (1974) • High Rise (1975) • The Unlimited Dream Company (1979) • Hello America (1981) • Empire of the Sun (1984) • The Day of Creation (1987) • Running Wild (1988) • The Kindness of Women (1991) • Rushing to Paradise (1994) • Cocaine Nights (1996) • Super-Cannes (2000) • Millennium People (2003) • Kingdom Come (2006)
Short stories:
Short story
collections:

The Voices of Time and Other Stories (1962) • Billennium (1962) • Passport to Eternity (1963) • The Four-Dimensional Nightmare (1963) • The Terminal Beach (1964) • The Impossible Man (1966) • The Venus Hunters (1967) • The Overloaded Man (1967) • The Disaster Area (1967) • The Day of Forever (1967) • Vermilion Sands (1971) • Chronopolis and Other Stories (1971) • Low-Flying Aircraft and Other Stories (1976) • The Best of J. G. Ballard (1977) • The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard (1978) • Myths of the Near Future (1982) • The Voices of Time (1985) • Memories of the Space Age (1988) • War Fever (1990) • The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard (2001)
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