Writing World War III: J.G. Ballard’s Field Guide to the Cold War, by Pippa Tandy

Bibliography

The anthology of interviews, criticism and extracts of Ballard’s work edited by V. Vale and A. Juno, eds. J. G. Ballard, San Francisco: RE/Search, 8:9, 1984, has been invaluable in the preparation of this dissertation. Many of the references below come from this book. Ballard’s A User’s Guide toe Millennium: Essays and Reviews, (London: HarperCollins, 1996) has also been a useful source of Ballard’s non-fiction.

PRIMARY BIBLIOGRAPHY: WORKS BY J. G. BALLARD

Short Fiction

All page references to Ballard’s short stories are to The Complete Short Stories, London: Flamingo, 2001, but I list the details of first publication here.

‘Zone of Terror’, 1960, New Worlds, 1960.
‘The Overloaded Man’, New Worlds, 1961.
‘Mr F is Mr F’, Science Fantasy, 1961.
‘Passport to Eternity’, Amazing Stories, 1962.
‘The Cage of Sand’, New Worlds, 1962.
‘The Delta at Sunset’, 1962, The Terminal Beach, 1964
‘The Reptile Enclosure’ (as ‘the Sherrington Theory’), Amazing Stories, 1963.
‘A Question of Re-entry’ Fantastic Stories, 1963.
‘The Time Tombs’, Worlds of If, 1963.
‘The Screen Game’, Fantastic Stories, 1963.
‘The Illuminated Man’, Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1964.
‘The Gioconda of the Twilight Noon’, The Terminal Beach, 1964.
‘The Terminal Beach’, New Worlds, 1964.
‘The Dead Astronaut’, Playboy, 1968.
‘My Dream of Flying to Wake Island’, Ambit, 1974.
‘Low-Flying Aircraft’, Bananas, 1975.
‘The Ultimate City’, Low-Flying Aircraft, 1976.
‘The Dead Time’, Bananas, 1977.
‘The Intensive Care Unit’, Ambit, 1977.
‘Having a Wonderful Time’, Bananas, 1978.
‘One Afternoon at Utah Beach’, Anticipations, 1978.
‘Motel Architecture’, Bananas, 1978.
‘News from the Sun’, Ambit, 1981.
‘Memories of the Space Age’, Interzone, 1982.
‘Myths of the Near Future’, Myths of the Near Future, Jonathon Cape, 1982.
‘The Secret History of World War 3’, Ambit, 1988.
‘The Enormous Space’, Interzone, 1989.

Novels

The Wind from Nowhere, New York: Berkley, 1962; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967.

The Drowned World, London: Victor Gollancz, 1964; London: The Science Fiction Book Club, 1964. Page references are to the Science Fiction Book Club edition.

The Drought, London: Jonathon Cape, 1965; London: Triad Panther, 1885. Page references are to the Triad Panther edition. (Originally published as The Burning World, New York: Berkley, 1964).

The Crystal World, London: Jonathon Cape, 1966.

The Atrocity Exhibition, London: Cape, 1970; revised San Francisco: RE/Search, 1990. Page references are to the RE/Search edition.The stories from The Atrocity Exhibition are written in a different order to that of the collection. This order is as follows: ‘The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race’ (1965), ‘You and Me and the Continuum’ (1965), ‘The Assassination Weapon’ (1966), ‘You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe’ (1966), ‘The Atrocity Exhibition’ (1966), ‘Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy’ (1967); ‘Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown’ (1967–different to the 1976 story of the same name, originally titled ‘The Death Module’), ‘Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan’ (1967), ‘Love and Napalm: Export U.S.A’ (1968), ‘The University of Death’ (1968), ‘The Great American Nude’ (1968), ‘The Generations of America’ (1968); ‘The Summer Cannibals’ (1968), ‘Crash’ (1969), ‘Tolerances of the Human Face’ (1969). Four works not published in the original edition but included in the 1990 edition are: ‘Princess Margaret’s Facelift’ (1969); ‘Mae West’s Reduction Mammoplasty’ (1970), Queen Elizabeth’s Rhinoplasty (1976), ‘The Secret History of World War 3 (1988).

Crash, London: Jonathon Cape, 1973; London: Vintage 1995. Page references are to the Vintage edition.

Concrete Island, London: Jonathon Cape, 1974; London: Vintage, 1994. Page numbers refer to the Vintage edition.

High-Rise, London: Jonathon Cape, 1975; London: Flamingo, 1993. Page references are to the Flamingo edition.

Empire of the Sun, London: Victor Gollancz, 1984; London: Flamingo, 1994. Page references are to the Flamingo edition.

The Unlimited Dream Company, London: Jonathon Cape, 1979; London: Flamingo, HarperCollins, 1992. Page references are to the Flamingo edition.

Hello America, (London: Jonathon Cape, 1981; London: Vintage, 1994). Page references are to the Vintage edition.

The Kindness of Women, London: HarperCollins, 1991.

Cocaine Nights, London: Flamingo, 1996.

Millennium People, London: Flamingo, 2003.

Non Fiction and Other

‘Time, Memory and Inner Space’, the Woman Journalist, Spring, 1963, repr. in Vale and Juno, J. G. Ballard, 100-1.

‘The Coming of the Unconscious’, New Worlds, 1966, repr in A User’s Guide to the Millennium, 84.

Review of La Jetée, first published in New Worlds, 1966, A User’s Guide to the Millennium, 28-29 and Vale and Juno. 101.

‘The Thousand Wounds and Flowers’, a review of The Voices of Time by JT Frazier in New Worlds (1969) A User’s Guide to the Millennium.

Handout by Ballard at his exhibit, Crashed Cars, held 4 - 28 April, 1970, at the New Arts Laboratory Gallery, quoted in Vale and Juno, 154

‘Fictions of Every Kind’, a review of The Shattered Ring, by Lois and Stephen Rose, Books and Bookmen, February, 1971, republished in V. Vale and A. Juno (eds.) 98-101, and A User’s Guide to the Millennium, 205-207.

‘The Car, The Future’, Drive, Autumn, 1971, excerpt quoted in ‘Quotations by Ballard’, Vale and Juno, J. G. Ballard, 154-164,161.

Introduction to the French edition of Crash, (1974), in original English in Foundation, No. 9, November, 1975, repr. in Vale and Juno, 96-98.

‘Closed Doors’, review of The Hughes Papers, by Elaine Davenport, Paul Eddy, and Mark Hurwitz, New Statesman, 1977, repr in User’s Guide to the Millennium, 47-48.

‘From Shanghai to Shepperton’, in Vale and Juno, J.G. Ballard, RE/Search, 1984, 1991), 112-124. This ‘autobiography’ was put together from various oral sources by David Pringle, originally for Foundation, no. 24, February 1982.

‘The Sweet Smell of Excess’, a review of Writers in Hollywood 1915-1951 by Ian Hamilton Independent on Sunday, 1990, repr. in A User’s Guide to the Millennium

‘The Last Real Innocents’, a review of Children of War, Children of Peace, New York Times, 1991, repr. A User’s Guide to the Millennium, 82-3.

A Response to the Invitation to Respond’, Science Fiction Studies, 18:3, 1991, 329.

Project for a Glossary of the Twentieth Century’, Zone 6, Incorporations, ed. Jonathon Crary and Sanford Kwinter, New York: Urzone 1992, 268-279.

‘Letter from J.G. Ballard’ JGB News no. 22, February 1994.

‘The End of My War’, Sunday Times, 1995, repr. in A User’s Guide to the Millennium, 292-3.

A User’s Guide to the Millennium: Essays and Reviews, London: HarperCollins, 1996.

‘Airports: The Cities of the Future’, Blueprint: Architecture, Design and Contemporary Culture, September 1997, No. 142, 26-29.

Untitled Fragments

Untitled, from Judith Merrill, England Swings SF, 1968, quoted in ‘Quotations by Ballard, V. Vale and A. Juno, 154-164, 159.

Untitled, from Books and Bookmen, July 9, 1970, quoted in ‘Quotations by Ballard, V. Vale and A. Juno, 154-164, 156.

Exhibitions/Happenings/CollagesSeries of four collages: late 1950s, reproduced in Vale and Juno, 38-40}

Homage to Clare Churchill’ (‘Advertiser’s Announcement’): Ambit, no. 32, 1967, reproduced in Vale and Juno, 148.

‘Does the angle between two walls have a happy ending?’ (‘Advertiser’s Announcement’): Ambit, no. 33, 1967, reproduced in Vale and Juno, 149.

A Neural Interval’ (‘Advertiser’s Announcement’): Ambit, no. 36, 1968, reproduced in Vale and Juno, 150.

‘Placental Insufficiency’ (‘Advertiser’s Announcement’): Ambit, no. 45, 1970, reproduced in Vale and Juno, 151.

‘The Assassination Weapon’, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, 1969. Not yet documented by ICA Archives.

‘Crashed Cars’ (New Sculpture), New Arts Lab, Roberts St, Camden, 4-28 April, 1970.

‘Venus Smiles’ (‘Advertiser’s Announcement’): Ambit, no. 46, 1971, reproduced in Vale and Juno, 152.

Interviews

Barber, Lyn. Interview with J. G. Ballard in Penthouse, Vol 5, September 1970, excerpt quoted in ‘Quotations by Ballard’, Vale and Juno, J. G. Ballard, 154-164. 156.

Baxter, Jeanette. Interview with J. G. Ballard in Pretext 9: Not of an Age, Pen & Inc Press, published in Guardian, Tuesday June 22, 2004.

BBC Radio 3. Interview with J. G. Ballard in (Nightwaves, 30 October 2001).

Bresson, Catherine. Interview with J. G. Ballard in Métaphores, (1983), excerpt quoted in ‘Quotations by Ballard’, Vale and Juno, J. G. Ballard, 154-164. 163

Burns, Alan. Interview with J. G. Ballard, in Alan Burns and Charles Sugnet. The Imagination on Trial, ed., London: Allison and Busby, 1981.

Cott, Jonathan. Interview with J. G. Ballard in Rolling Stone, December 1987, Issue 413, 55-57 and 81.

Evans, Dr Chris. Interview with J. G. Ballard in Penthouse, vol 14, April 1979, excerpt quoted in ‘Quotations by Ballard’, Vale and Juno, J. G. Ballard, 154-164. 157

Frostrup, Mariella. Interview with J. G. Ballard on BBC Radio, September, 2003.

Goddard, James and David Pringle. ‘J.G. Ballard Interview,’ 4th January 1975 (published variously), reprinted in post # 6370 by David Pringle, JGB List, 19 January, 2004. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jgb/.

Hennessy, Brendan. Interview with J. G. Ballard in Transatlantic Review, Spring, 1971, 60-64, 63.

Juno, A. and V. Vale, Interview with J. G. Ballard, ‘Interview by A. Juno and V. Vale, 29 October 1982, in Vale and Juno, J. G. Ballard, 6-35.

Linnet, Peter, Interview with J. G. Ballard in Corridor, no. 5, 1974, excerpt quoted in ‘Quotations by Ballard’, Vale and Juno, J. G. Ballard, 154-164. 164.

Louit, Robert. Interview with J. G. Ballard in Magazine Littéraire, no. 87, April 1974 (retranslated by Peter Nicholls) Foundation no. 9, November 1975, excerpt quoted in ‘Quotations by Ballard’, Vale and Juno, J. G. Ballard, 154-164. 158.

Meridian Masterpiece Programme, Interview with J. G. Ballard, BBC World Service, February 2002.

Pringle, David. Interview with J. G. Ballard in Thrust, Winter 1980, excerpts quoted in ‘Quotations by Ballard’, Vale and Juno, J. G. Ballard, 154-164. 162, 164.

Pringle, David. Interview with J. G. Ballard in, J.G. Ballard, The First Twenty Years, 1976, excerpt quoted in ‘Quotations by Ballard’, Vale and Juno, J. G. Ballard, 154-164. 164.

Revell, Graeme. Interview with J. G. Ballard, ‘Interview by Graeme Revell’ (1983), Vale and Juno, J. G. Ballard, 42-52.

Scoggins, Sam. The Unlimited Dream Company, (a film about J.G. Ballard) excerpt quoted in ‘Quotations by Ballard’, Vale and Juno, J. G. Ballard, 154-164. 162

Sinclair, Iain. Interview with J. G. Ballard in Crash: David Cronenberg’s Post-mortem on J.G. Ballard’s ‘Trajectory of Fate’, London: BFI Modern Classics, 1991.

Whitford, Frank, Eduardo Paolozzi and J. G. Ballard, ‘J. G. Ballard in conversation with Eduardo Paolozzi and Frank Whitford’, Studio International, Vol 182, No. 937, October 1971, 136–143.

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Film and Television

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A Touch of Evil, directed by Orson Welles, Hollywood: Universal International Pictures, 1958.

Adolph Eichmann: The Specialist, directed by Eyal Sivan, Momento & France 2 Cinema, Bremer Institute of Film & WDR, Image Creation & RTBF, Lotus Film and Amythos/Noga, 1999.

Alphaville, directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Paris: Chaumiane/Filmstudio, 1965.

Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, Hollywood: Warner/Ladd, 1982.

Butterfield 8, Directed by Daniel Mann, London: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1960.

Contempt, directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Paris, Rome: Rome-ParisFilm Concordia, 1963.

Crash, directed by Harvey Cokliss, London: BBC Television, 1973.

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Ice Station Zebra, directed by John Sturges, Hollywood: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Filmways, 1968.

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Quatermass II, directed by Val Guest, London: Hammer, 1957.

Quatermass and the Pit, directed by Roy Ward Baker, London: Hammer, 1967.

The Third Man, directed by Carol. Reid, Hollywood: Warner Brothers, 1949.

The Unlimited Dream Company directed by Sam Scoggins, a film about J. G. Ballard, 1983.

Weekend, directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Paris: Films Copernic, Comacico and Lira, Rome: Ascot-Cineraïd, 1967.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Conclusion
Bibliography
Acknowledgements