Audiobooks by J.G. Ballard

Love, Death + Robots: The Official Anthology: Volume 2 & 3

"The fifteen stories and three screenplays that make up Volumes Two and Three of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death + Robots. Featuring bestselling authors and screenwriters from all over the globe, curated by filmmakers Tim Miller and David Fincher, and Supervising Director Jennifer Yuh Nelson. Stories by Neal Asher, Paolo Bacigalupi, J. G. Ballard, Alan Baxter, Justin Coates, Harlan Ellison, Joachim Heijndermans, Joe Lansdale, Rich Larson, Alberto Mielgo, Jeff Fowler & Tim Miller, John Scalzi, Bruce Sterling, and Michael Swanwick. Full contents: “Automated Customer Service” by John Scalzi“Ice” by Rich Larson“Pop Squad” by Paolo Bacigalupi“Snow in the Desert” by Neal Asher“The Tall Grass” by Joe R. Lansdale“All Through the House” by Joachim Heijndermans“Life Hutch” by Harlan Ellison“The Drowned Giant” by J. G. Ballard“Three Robots: Human Habitats” by John Scalzi“Bad Travelling” by Neal Asher“The Very Pulse of the Machine” by Michael Swanwick“Night of the Mini-Dead” by Jeff Fowler & Tim Miller “Kill Team Kill” by Justin Coates“Swarm” by Bruce Sterling“Mason’s Rats” by Neal Asher“In Vaulted Halls Entombed” by Alan Baxter“Jibaro” by Alberto Mielgo“Three Robots: Two Versions Intro” by John Scalzi“Three Robots Report Back on the Habitats in Which Humanity Chose to See Out Its Final Days” by John Scalzi"

Alan Baxter, Amanda J. Spedding, David Fincher, Geoff Brown, Harlan Ellison, J.G. Ballard, Joe Lansdale, John Scalzi, Justin Coates, Neal Asher, Tim Miller (Author), Alex Boyles, Alex Picard, André Santana, Bradford Hastings, Cary Hite, Gary Tiedemann, Hannah Curtis, Joe Hempel, Joel Simler, Josh Innerst, P. J. Ochlan, Steve West, Tim Campbell (Narrator)

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Crash

"The definitive cult, post-modern novel – a shocking blend of violence, transgression and eroticism. When our narrator smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, his sense of sexual possibilities in the world around him becomes detached. As he begins an affair with the dead man's wife, he finds himself drawn with increasing intensity to the mangled impacts of car crashes. Then he encounters Robert Vaughan, a former TV scientist turned nightmare angel of the expressway, who has gathered around him a collection of alienated crash victims and experiments with a series of erotic atrocities, each more sinister than the last. But Vaughan craves the ultimate crash – a head-on collision of blood, semen, engine coolant and iconic celebrity.When our narrator smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, his sense of sexual possibilities in the world around him becomes detached. As he begins an affair with the dead man's wife, he finds himself drawn with increasing intensity to the mangled impacts of car crashes. Then he encounters Robert Vaughan, a former TV scientist turned nightmare angel of the expressway, who has gathered around him a collection of alienated crash victims and experiments with a series of erotic atrocities, each more sinister than the last. But Vaughan craves the ultimate crash – a head-on collision of blood, semen, engine coolant and iconic celebrity."

J.G. Ballard (Author), Alastair Sill (Narrator)

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Empire of the Sun

"The heartrending story of British boy Jim’s four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the second world war. Filmed by Steven Spielberg. Now available for the first time on CD. Based on J. G. Ballard’s own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy’s life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai – a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation and survival, of internment camps and death marches. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint. Rooted as it is in the author’s own disturbing experience of war in our time, it is one of a handful of novels by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered but judged."

J.G. Ballard (Author), Samuel West (Narrator)

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Miracles of Life

"'Miracles of Life' opens and closes in Shanghai, the city where J.G.Ballard was born, and where he spent the most of the Second World War interned with his family in a Japanese concentration camp. J.G. Ballard was, for over fifty years, one of this country’s most significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic novel, “Empire of the Sun”, in this revelatory autobiography he charts the course of his astonishing life. “Miracles of Life” takes us from the vibrant surroundings of pre-war Shanghai, to the deprivations and unexpected freedoms of Lunghua Camp, to Ballard’s arrival in a devastated Britain. Ballard recounts his first attempts at fiction and his part in the social and artistic revolutions of the 60s. He describes his friendships with figures as diverse as Kingsley Amis, Michael Moorcock and Eduardo Paolozzi alongside recollections of his domestic life in Shepperton – raising three children as a single father following the unexpected and premature death of his wife. “Miracles of Life” is both a captivating narrative of the experiences that have shaped this extraordinary writer’s works, his distinctive outlook and his original visions of the future, and is also an account of a remarkable life."

J.G. Ballard (Author), Tim Pigott-Smith (Narrator)

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