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* AnachronicOrder: "The Beach Murders" is a ColdWar spy thriller that's deliberately told this way. Ballard wrote the story conventionally and rearranged the sequences, challenging the reader to figure out who killed who and what truly happened at the end.
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* AnachronicOrder: "The Beach Murders" is a ColdWar UsefulNotes/ColdWar spy thriller that's deliberately told this way. Ballard wrote the story conventionally and rearranged the sequences, challenging the reader to figure out who killed who and what truly happened at the end.
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* DeathByDeaging: "Mr. F Is Mr. F" features main character Charles Freeman growing progressively younger over the course of several weeks until he's been reduced to infancy. Worse still, his wife is either directly responsible or complicit in the process: her apparent pregnancy is actually just her way of getting ready to absorb Freeman. After several days of being babied by his own wife, the infant Freeman goes BackToTheWomb and rapidly being regressed into nothingness, [[KarmaHoudini allowing his widow to shack up with a neighbour]].
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* UrbanFantasy: "The Drowned Giant" is set in a mundane town by the sea. The only interesting event to occur is a dead naked giant washing up on shore, [[FantasticallyIndifferent yet for the townsfolk the novelty wears off after a day.]]
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* UrbanFantasy: "The Drowned Giant" is set in a mundane town by the sea. The only interesting event to occur is a dead naked giant washing up on shore, [[FantasticallyIndifferent yet for the townsfolk the novelty wears off after a day.]]]]
* WarIsHell: Given his childhood experiences in a POW camp in WWII, it's to be expected that Ballard would write a few anti-war stories. Notably among them is "Theatre of War", which follows a documentary crew as it covers a brutal Vietnam-style civil war in the United Kingdom.
* WarIsHell: Given his childhood experiences in a POW camp in WWII, it's to be expected that Ballard would write a few anti-war stories. Notably among them is "Theatre of War", which follows a documentary crew as it covers a brutal Vietnam-style civil war in the United Kingdom.
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* GildedCage: The premise of "Having A Wonderful Time" in which a couple are sent on holiday to a hotel resort in the Canaries only to discover that the islands are a dumping ground for the UK's unemployed and middle class. Ballard intended it to be a parody of the middle class's constant need for escape in the form of corporate getaways.
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** "The 60-Minute Zoom" also follows a similar premise to the above story, but follows the POV of a husband who seemingly delights in filming his wife's affairs at whatever resorts they're staying at in their travels.
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* SanitySlippage: In "One Afternoon at Utah Beach", a man discovers his wife and their pilot are having an affair while the three of them are staying at Utah Beach in Normandy, France. Bizarrely enough, he comes across an emaciated teenage Wehrmacht soldier, still manning one of the machine guns in a blockhouse. Nursing the young soldier back to health, the man plans to use him to gun down his wife and the pilot as revenge for their affair. It ends with [[spoiler: the man and his Nazi accomplice attempting an assault on the adulterous couple, only for the man to be shot dead. It turns out that the Nazi soldier was his hallucination all along and the man had gone crazy, dressed up in a Wehrmacht uniform in the murder attempt.]]
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* ''Crash'' (1973)
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* ''Crash'' ''Literature/{{Crash}}'' (1973)
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** Interestingly enough, there's a 1971 short film entitled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cqn6zA1sMg ''Crash!'']] (most likely after the 1969 short story). It stars Ballard and Gabrielle Drake, star of the sc-fi drama series ''[[Series/UFO1970 UFO]]'' and sister of the late musician Music/NickDrake.
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** Interestingly enough, there's a 1971 short film entitled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cqn6zA1sMg ''Crash!'']] (most likely after the 1969 short story).derived from a stage play that wasn't produced). It stars Ballard and Gabrielle Drake, star of the sc-fi drama series ''[[Series/UFO1970 UFO]]'' and sister of the late musician Music/NickDrake.
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* ''The Atrocity Exhibition'' (1970, first published as ''Love and Napalm: Export USA'', 1972)
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* ''Empire of the Sun'' (1984)
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* ''Running Wild'' (1988)
* ''The Kindness of Women'' (1991)
* ''The Kindness of Women'' (1991)
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* ChildProdigy: "The Comsat Angels" is about a conspiracy concerning twelve child genuises who look identical and their infiltration of different sectors of society. Turns out that [[spoiler: they're preparing the world for the arrival of a thirteenth genius, who'll be born near Bethlehem. [[SecondComing You see where this is going?]]]]
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* DisasterScavengers: "The Dead Astronaut" is about a husband and wife who travel to an abandoned, irradiated Cape Kennedy in anticipation of a falling capsule that contains the remains of an astronaut (the wife's former husband and her current husband's co-worker from their time at NASA). They compete against relic hunters who routinely scavenge for NASA artefacts.
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* OverpopulationCrisis: The Earth of "Billennium" is host to 20 billion people. Most of the land is devoid of settlements in order to make room for all the agriculture needed to feed the world population. People are crammed into all the major cities and the pavements are so jammed that it takes days to walk anywhere. Everyone lives in singular cubicles and rent is devised using ceiling space.
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* OverpopulationCrisis: OverpopulationCrisis / AbsurdlyHugePopulation: The Earth of "Billennium" is host to 20 billion people. Most of the land is devoid of settlements in order to make room for all the agriculture needed to feed the world population. People are crammed into all the major cities and the pavements are so jammed that it takes days to walk anywhere. Everyone lives in singular cubicles and rent is devised using ceiling space.
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* GenerationShip: The premise of the short story "Thirteen to Centaurus".
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* OverpopulationCrisis: The Earth of "Billennium" is host to 20 billion people. Most of the land is devoid of settlements in order to make room for all the agriculture needed to feed the world population. People are crammed into all the major cities and the pavements are so jammed that it takes days to walk anywhere. Everyone lives in singular cubicles and rent is devised using ceiling space.
** There is also an overpopulation problem in "The Concentration City" and free space is a central issue.
** There is also an overpopulation problem in "The Concentration City" and free space is a central issue.
