A User's Guide to the Millennium

First UK edition (publ. HarperCollins)

A User's Guide To The Millennium: Essays And Reviews is a collection of writings by the British author J. G. Ballard. Published in 1996, the book brings together many of Ballard's short pieces for magazines and newspapers, and covers reviews, essays and musing on subject from art, literature and science. The book also contains a selection of autobiographical writings, and celebrations of Ballard favourites, science-fiction cinema and American author William S. Burroughs.^[1] There are ninety pieces in all, written between 1962 and 1995.^[2]

References

^ "The New York Times: Book Review Search Article". archive.nytimes.com.
^ "Book Details : A User's Guide to the Millennium - J. G. Ballard - eBook". www.harpercollins.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02.

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Works by J. G. Ballard

Novels

The Wind from Nowhere (1961)
The Drowned World (1962)
The Burning World (1964)
The Crystal World (1966)
The Atrocity Exhibition (1969)
Crash (1973)
Concrete Island (1974)
High-Rise (1975)
The Unlimited Dream Company (1979)
Hello America (1981)
Empire of the Sun (1984)
The Day of Creation (1987)
Running Wild (1988)
The Kindness of Women (1991)
Rushing to Paradise (1994)
Cocaine Nights (1996)
Super-Cannes (2000)
Millennium People (2003)
Kingdom Come (2006)

Short stories

"Mobile" (1957)
"The Concentration City" (1957)
"Track 12" (1958)
"Zone of Terror" (1960)
"The Sound-Sweep" (1960)
"The Voices of Time" (1960)
"Chronopolis" (1960)
"Studio 5, The Stars" (1961)
"Deep End" (1961)
"Mr F. is Mr F." (1961)
"Billennium" (1962)
"Minus One" (1963)
"The Recognition" (1967)
" The Day of Forever" (1967)
"Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan" (1968)
"Venus Smiles" (1971)

Short story
collections

The Voices of Time and Other Stories (1962)
Billennium (1962)
Passport to Eternity (1963)
The 4-Dimensional Nightmare (1963)
The Terminal Beach (1964)
The Impossible Man (1966)
The Overloaded Man (1967)
The Disaster Area (1967)
The Day of Forever (1967)
Vermilion Sands (1971)
Chronopolis and Other Stories (1971)
Low-Flying Aircraft and Other Stories (1976)
The Best of J. G. Ballard (1977)
The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard (1978)
The Venus Hunters (1980)
Myths of the Near Future (1982)
The Voices of Time (1985)
Memories of the Space Age (1988)
War Fever (1990)
The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 1 (2006)
The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 2 (2006)

Essays, reviews
and interviews

A User's Guide to the Millennium (1996)
Extreme Metaphors (2012)

Autobiography

Miracles of Life (2008)

Film adaptations

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970)
Crash! (1971)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Crash (1996)
The Atrocity Exhibition (1998)
Low-Flying Aircraft (2002)
High-Rise (2015)

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