"J.G. Ballard is perhaps the foremost writer since George Orwell to project the consequences of technology into the future, and his shorter fiction has appeared in numerous selections over the past twenty years. Collected here are nineteen stories which represent the breadth of his talent and the power of his creative vision..."

• commentary from the back cover of the Washington Square Press edition

Stories in this collection:

• "The Concentration City"
• "Manhole 69"
• "Chronopolis"
• "The Voices of Time"
• "Deep End"
• "The Overloaded Man"
• "Billennium"
• "The Garden of Time"
• "Thirteen for Centaurus"
• "The Subliminal Man"
• "The Cage of Sand"
• "End Game"
• "The Drowned Giant"
• "The Terminal Beach"
• "The Cloud Sculptors of Coral D"
• "The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race"
• "The Atrocity Exhibition"
• "Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy"
• "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Regan"