The Recognition

For the William Gaddis novel, see The Recognitions.

"The Recognition" is a short story by English author J. G. Ballard, originally included in Harlan Ellison's science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions.

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, reviews and interviews	A User's Guide to the Millennium (1996) Extreme Metaphors (2012)

Autobiography	Miracles of Life (2008)

Film adaptations and 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) High Rise (2015)

External links

The Recognition title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database