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J. G. Ballard’s The Terminal Beach is a carefully curated collection of short stories that investigate the paradox between human creative power and our instinct for violence. The stories range from the eerie depiction of a deserted atomic testing site in the Pacific to the Oedipal dreamscape of “The Gioconda of the Twight Noon.” Each tale exposes the fragility of civilization and the profound impact of technology on society.
First publish date: 1964
Genre: General Fiction/Short Stories
Authors: J. G. Ballard
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