The Wind from Nowhere

The Wind From Nowhere  

Cover to the first edition
Author(s) J. G. Ballard
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Science fiction novel
Publisher Berkley Books
Publication date 1961
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN NA

The Wind from Nowhere, first published in 1961 is the debut novel by English author J.G. Ballard. Prior to this, his published work had consisted solely of short stories.

The novel was the first of a series of Ballard novels dealing with scenarios of 'natural disaster', in this case seeing civilization reduced to ruins by prolonged worldwide hurricane force winds.

As an added dimension Ballard explores the ways in which disaster and tragedy can bond people together in ways that no normal experiences ever could. This, too, is a recurring theme in his works, making one of its first appearances here.

Written in ten days, Ballard later dismissed this novel as a "piece of hackwork",[1] referring instead to The Drowned World as his first novel.[2]

References

  1. ^ Stuart Pringle, JG Ballard (January 1975). "Interviews: 4 January 1975, part 2". http://www.solaris-books.co.uk/Ballard/Pages/Miscpages/interview4b.htm. Retrieved 2010-08-05. 
  2. ^ Simon Sellars (Oct 10th, 2006). "The Wind From Nowhere (1961)". Ballardian. http://www.ballardian.com/biblio-the-wind-from-nowhere. Retrieved 2010-08-05. 

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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:

"Mobile" (1957) • "Track 12" (1958) • "Zone of Terror" (1960) • "The Sound-Sweep" (1960) • "The Voices of Time" (1960) • "Studio 5, The Stars" (1961) • "Deep End" (1961) • "Mr F. is Mr F." (1961) • "Billennium" (1962) • "Minus One" (1963) • "The Recognition" (1967) • " The Day of Forever" (1967) • "The Concentration City" (1967) • "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan" (1968) "Venus Smiles" (1971) •
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 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) • The Venus Hunters (1980) • 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: Volume 1 (2006) The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 2 (2006)
Essays and reviews
Autobiography
Film adaptations & work

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970) • Crash! (1971) • Empire of the Sun (1987) • Crash (1996) • The Atrocity Exhibition (2001) • Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude (2002)