The wind came from nowhere... a super-hurricane that blasted round the globe at hundreds of miles per hour burying whole communities beneath piles of rubble, destroying all organized life and driving those it did not kill to seek safety in tunnels and sewers - where they turned against each other in their desperate struggle to survive...

By the author of The Drowned World

(cover by Alan Aldridge)

First published in the USA 1962
Published in Penguin Books 1967
© J.G.Ballard 1962

It's A.D. 2025. The world's population lives underground in small factories called 'Tanks'. They are making complex robots to fight World War III.
Information about the war effort comes from a few brave politicians chancing their lives on the highly radioactive surface.
What the few brave politicians forget to mention is that the war finished ten years ago. And the robots make great servants to their thousand-acre estates.
What they do mention is that anyone who comes to the surface will die instantly and horribly from the enemy's bacteria.
If you think mankind is too advanced for this kind of medieval oppression, read The Penultimate Truth.

(Cover design by Franco Grignani)

First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape 1967
Published in Penguin Books 1970
© Philip K. Dick 1964

The crystal world of J G Ballard where the white light of reason bends and breaks into every shade of fear...
12 chill splinters of unreality

Contents:
A QUESTION OF RE-ENTRY - THE DROWNED GIANT - END-GAME - THE ILLUMINATED MAN - THE REPTILE ENCLOSURE - THE DELTA AT SUNSET - THE TERMINAL BEACH - DEEP END - THE VOLCANO DANCES - BILLENNIUM - THE GIACONDA OF THE TWILIGHT NOON - THE LOST LEONARDO

(Cover illustration by David Pelham)

First published by Victor Gollancz 1964.
Published in Penguin Books 1966.
Reprinted 1974
© J G Ballard 1964