JG Ballard Cover Scans 1968-1973

The Terminal Collection: 1968 - 1973

Actually, these years are interesting for the increasing darkness and obsessiveness of his vision -- culminating in what must be JGB's most acclaimed collection of short stories, The Atrocity Exhibition.

The International Times, No. 26, London, February 16-29, 1968
Contains the short story, Why I Want To Fuck Ronald Reagan which was reprinted in Ronald Reagan, The Magazine of Poetry, The Atrocity Exhibition, and Love And Napalm: Export USA.

Playboy, Volume 15, Number 5, May 1968
Contains the short story, The Dead Astronaut.

The Running Man, Volume 1, Number 2, July-August 1968
Contains the short story, Love & Napalm: Export USA.

Ronald Reagan, The Magazine Of Poetry, London, Summer, 1968
Contains the short story, Why I Want To Fuck Ronald Reagan.

Transatlantic Review 29, London, Summer, 1968
Contains the short story, the university of death which was reprinted in The Atrocity Exhibition, and Love And Napalm: Export USA.

New Worlds Number 183, London, October 1968
Signed by JGB. Contains the short story, The Generations of America, which was reprinted in The Atrocity Exhibition, and Love And Napalm: Export USA.

Worlds Of IF, Volume 18, Number 12, December 1968
Contains the short story, The Comsat Angels.

Future Tense, Edited by Richard Curtis, Dell, NY 1968
Contains the short story, Billenium.

England Swings SF, Edited by Judith Merril, Ace, NY 1968
Contains the short story, You And Me And The Continuum.

Best Stories From New Worlds II Edited By Michael Moorcock, Panther, London 1968
Contains the short story, You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe

Ambit 36 London, Summer 1968
Contains the short story, The Great American Nude, and another "Advertiser's Announcement", A Neural Interval.

Ambit 37 London, Autumn, 1968
Contains the concrete poem, Love: A Print Out for Claire Churchill. This issue of Ambit was published in newspaper broadsheet format; it also contained J. G. Ballard's Court Circular, which is not in fact by Ballard but is a series of drawings by Bruce Mclean.

New Worlds Number 186, London, January 1969
Contains the short story, The Summer Cannibals, which was reprinted in The Atrocity Exhibition, and Love And Napalm: Export USA. It also contains a review of J. T. Frazer's book about theories of time, The Thousand Wounds And Flowers, re-printed in A User's Guide to the Millennium.

New Worlds Number 187, London, February 1969
Signed by JGB. Contains the article, Salvador Dali: the innocent as paranoid, which was re-printed (without the many illustrations) in A User's Guide to the Millennium. It also contains a mock computer priontout, How Dr Christopher Evans Landed On The Moon

New Worlds Number 188, London, March 1969
Signed by JGB. Contains the short story, The Killing Ground, which was reprinted in The Day Of Forever (2nd edition)

New Worlds Number 189, London, April 1969
Signed by JGB. Contains the short story, The Beach Murders, which was orginially called Confetti Royale and published in the February/March 1966 edition of Rogue magazine.

New Worlds Number 191, London, June 1969
Signed by JGB. Contains the book review, Use Your Vagina. JGB advises his readers to buy it, and it's interesting to note the outside back cover of this issue is a full-page ad for the book, which is called How To Achieve Sexual Ecstacy, by Stephan Gregory. It's 1969... you have to be over 21 to order it. The review was re-printed in A User's Guide to the Millennium

The New S.F. Edited by Langdon Jones, Hutchinson, London, 1969
Contains the JGB -- George MacBeth interview, The New Science Fiction, which was later reprinted in the Doubleday edition of The Atrocity Exhibition

Encounter Volume 33, Number 3, London, September 1969
Signed by JGB. Contains the short story, Tolerances Of The Human Face, which was reprinted in The Atrocity Exhibition and Love and Napalm: Export USA

Grusomhedssudstillingen (The Atrocity Exhibition) Rhodos, Denmark, 1969
The absolute first, first edition of The Atrocity Exhibition, but in Danish. Translated by Jannick Storm.

New Worlds Number 194, London, September/October 1969
Signed by JGB. Contains the short story, A Place And A Time To Die, which was reprinted in New Worlds Quarterly, 1971

New Worlds Number 196, London, December 1969
Signed by JGB. Contains the book review, Alphabets of Unreason, a look at Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler. Re-printed in A User's Guide to the Millennium

New Worlds Number 197, London, January 1970
Signed by JGB. Contains the short story, Coitus 80: A Description Of The Sexual Act in 1980

New Worlds Number 198, London, February 1970
Signed by JGB. Contains the short story, Journey Across A Crater, which was reprinted in New Worlds Quarterly, 1971.

New Worlds Number 199, London, March 1970
Signed by JGB. Contains the short story, Princess Margaret's Facelift: An Intersection Of Fiction And Reality

The Atrocity Exhibition Doubleday, New York, June 12, 1970
Collects: The Atrocity Exhibition • The Unversity of Death • The Assassination Weapon • You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe • Notes Toward A Mental Breakdown • The Great American Nude • The Summer Cannibals • Tolerances of the Human Face • You and Me and the Continuum • Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy • Love and Napalm: Export USA • Crash! • The Generations of America • Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan • The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered As A Downhill Motor Race, plus an interview with George MacBeth called "The New Science Fiction".

The Atrocity Exhibition Jonathan Cape, London, July, 1970
Collects: The Atrocity Exhibition • The Unversity of Death • The Assassination Weapon • You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe • Notes Toward A Mental Breakdown • The Great American Nude • The Summer Cannibals • Tolerances of the Human Face • You and Me and the Continuum • Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy • Love and Napalm: Export USA • Crash! • The Generations of America • Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan • The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered As A Downhill Motor Race.

Fantastic, Volume 19, Number 6, August 1970
Contains the short story, Say Goodbye To The Wind which was reprinted in the collection Vermilion Sands.

Ambit 44, London, Summer 1970
Contains the "surgical fiction", Mae West's Reduction Mammoplasty. This issue of Ambit also contains six of Michael Foreman's illustrations for the pulped Doubleday edition of The Atrocity Exhibition.

Ambit 45, London, Autumn 1970
Contains the "Advertiser's Announcement", Placental Insufficiency.

Ambit 46, London, Winter 1970
Contains the "Advertiser's Announcement", Venus Smiles.

Best SF Stories from New Worlds 6, Edited by Michael Moorcock, Panther, London, 1970
Contains the short story, The Killing Ground.

The Crystal World, Panther, London, 1970
Second Panther edition.

What hair JGB's been losing off the front he's been growing in the back, as even the Hermit of Shepperton gets funky. He looks cool, but he's secretly writing Crash... before his own little "accident"! He's not as productive as before, no doubt... but still has enough short stories kicking around to publish yet another collection, Chronopolis. And in the US, Grove Press finally renames and publishes The Atrocity Exhibition as Love & Napalm: Export USA... two years late.

New Worlds 1: The Science Fiction Quarterly Edited by Michael Moorcock, Berkley, NY, September, 1971
This paperback has been assigned issue number 202. Contains the short stories, A Place And A Time To Die, which had originally appeared in NW 194, and Journey Across A Crater, which had originally appeared in NW 198

Vermilion Sands Berkley, NY, April, 1971
Collects: • Prima Belladonna • The Thousand Dreams of Stellavision • Cry Hope, Cry Fury! • Venus Smiles • Studio 5, The Stars • The Cloud Sculptors of Coral D • Say Goodbye to the Wind • The Screen Game

Luna Monthly Number 24/25 May/June, 1971
Contains J.G. Ballard: A Profile by Mark Purcell

New Worlds 2: The Science Fiction Quarterly Edited by Michael Moorcock, Sphere Books, London, 1971
The second in the series of paperback books, which was subsequently assigned the issue number 203. Contains the short story, Visions Of Hell, an appreciation of Wyndham Lewis's trilogy The Human Age, which had originally appeared in NW 160

The Inner Landscape Paperback Library, NY, 1971
Contains the short story, The Voices of Time which was collected in Chronopolis.

The Overloaded Man Panther, London, 1971, Second Edition

The Day Of Forever Panther, London, 1971, Second Edition

Chronopolis Putnam, NY, 1972
Collects: The Voices of Time • The Drowned Giant • The Terminal Beach • Manhole 69 • Storm Bird, Storm Dreamer • The Sound-Sweep • Billenium • Chronopolis • Build-Up • The Garden of Time • End Game • The Watch-towers • Now Wakes The Sea • Zone of Terror • The Cage of Sand • Deep End.

Ambit 50 London, Spring 1972
Contains the short story, The Side Effects of Orthonovin G.

Gettin It On!... It's almost 1973 and JGB and Da Boyz leer at stripper Euphoria Bliss, who made her reputation by taking her clothes off while giving readings of scientific papers and JGB's stuff... musta been one heck of an act! Michael Foreman tell me: Euphoria Bliss photograph was taken at the Royal Academy of Art in front of a Paolozzi sculpture being exhibited at the time. I think it was taken for the Sunday Times to commemorate an Ambit anniversary. Probably the 15th. Left to right, our funky revellers include Eduardo Paolozzi, sculptor and contributing editor of Ambit, JGB, Mike Foreman, art editor of Ambit and illustrator for the Doubleday edition of The Atrocity Exhibition, and Dr. Martin Bax, editor of Ambit.

Chronopolis Berkley, NY, August, 1972

Love & Napalm: Export USA Grove Press, NY, 1972
Collects: Introduction by William Burroughs (this edition only) • The Atrocity Exhibition • The Unversity of Death • The Assassination Weapon • You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe • Notes Toward A Mental Breakdown • The Great American Nude • The Summer Cannibals • Tolerances of the Human Face • You and Me and The Continuum • Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy • Love and Napalm: Export USA • Crash! • The Generations of America • Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan • The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race

Ambit 53 London, Winter 1972/73
Contains the short story, The Greatest Television Show On Earth

Ambit 55 London, Summer 1973
Contains the novel extract, Crash.

Crash Jonathan Cape, London, June 1973

Crash Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY 1973

Evergreen Review 96 NY, Spring 1973
Contains the short story, The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered As A Downhill Motor Race, and Krafft-Ebbing Visits Dealey Plaza: The Recent Fiction of JG Ballard, a review of Love & Napalm: Export USA by Gerome Tarshis

Tomorrow and Tomorrow Edited by Damon Knight, Simon & Shuster, NY, 1973
Contains the short story, The Sound Sweep.

The Disaster Area Granada, London, 1973

BreakThrough Fictioneers Something Else Press, NY, 1973
Contains the short stories, Coitus 80 and Princess Margaret’s Facelift

Vermilion Sands Jonathan Cape, London, November 1973
Collects: Preface (British editions only) • The Thousand Dreams of Stellavision • Cry Hope, Cry Fury! • Venus Smiles • Studio 5, The Stars • The Cloud Sculptors of Coral D • Say Goodbye to the Wind • The Screen Game • The Singing Statues (British editions only).

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	The Terminal Collection: 1968 - 1973 Actually, these years are interesting for the increasing darkness and obsessiveness of his vision -- culminating in what must be JGB's most acclaimed collection of short stories, The Atrocity Exhibition. The International Times, No. 26, London, February 16-29, 1968 Contains the short story, Why I Want To Fuck Ronald Reagan which was reprinted in Ronald Reagan, The Magazine of Poetry, The Atrocity Exhibition, and Love And Napalm: Export USA. Playboy, Volume 15, Number 5, May 1968 Contains the short story, The Dead Astronaut. The Running Man, Volume 1, Number 2, July-August 1968 Contains the short story, Love & Napalm: Export USA. Ronald Reagan, The Magazine Of Poetry, London, Summer, 1968 Contains the short story, Why I Want To Fuck Ronald Reagan. Transatlantic Review 29, London, Summer, 1968 Contains the short story, the university of death which was reprinted in The Atrocity Exhibition, and Love And Napalm: Export USA. New Worlds Number 183, London, October 1968 Signed by JGB. Contains the short story, The Generations of America, which was reprinted in The Atrocity Exhibition, and Love And Napalm: Export USA. Worlds Of IF, Volume 18, Number 12, December 1968 Contains the short story, The Comsat Angels. Future Tense, Edited by Richard Curtis, Dell, NY 1968 Contains the short story, Billenium. England Swings SF, Edited by Judith Merril, Ace, NY 1968 Contains the short story, You And Me And The Continuum. Best Stories From New Worlds II Edited By Michael Moorcock, Panther, London 1968 Contains the short story, You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe Ambit 36 London, Summer 1968 Contains the short story, The Great American Nude, and another "Advertiser's Announcement", A Neural Interval. Ambit 37 London, Autumn, 1968 Contains the concrete poem, Love: A Print Out for Claire Churchill. This issue of Ambit was published in newspaper broadsheet format; it also contained J. G. Ballard's Court Circular, which is not in fact by Ballard but is a series of drawings by Bruce Mclean. New Worlds Number 186, London, January 1969 Contains the short story, The Summer Cannibals, which was reprinted in The Atrocity Exhibition, and Love And Napalm: Export USA. It also contains a review of J. T. Frazer's book about theories of time, The Thousand Wounds And Flowers, re-printed in A User's Guide to the Millennium. New Worlds Number 187, London, February 1969 Signed by JGB. Contains the article, Salvador Dali: the innocent as paranoid, which was re-printed (without the many illustrations) in A User's Guide to the Millennium. It also contains a mock computer priontout, How Dr Christopher Evans Landed On The Moon New Worlds Number 188, London, March 1969 Signed by JGB. Contains the short story, The Killing Ground, which was reprinted in The Day Of Forever (2nd edition) New Worlds Number 189, London, April 1969 Signed by JGB. Contains the short story, The Beach Murders, which was orginially called Confetti Royale and published in the February/March 1966 edition of Rogue magazine. New Worlds Number 191, London, June 1969 Signed by JGB. Contains the book review, Use Your Vagina. JGB advises his readers to buy it, and it's interesting to note the outside back cover of this issue is a full-page ad for the book, which is called How To Achieve Sexual Ecstacy, by Stephan Gregory. It's 1969... you have to be over 21 to order it. The review was re-printed in A User's Guide to the Millennium The New S.F. Edited by Langdon Jones, Hutchinson, London, 1969 Contains the JGB -- George MacBeth interview, The New Science Fiction, which was later reprinted in the Doubleday edition of The Atrocity Exhibition Encounter Volume 33, Number 3, London, September 1969 Signed by JGB. Contains the short story, Tolerances Of The Human Face, which was reprinted in The Atrocity Exhibition and Love and Napalm: Export USA Grusomhedssudstillingen (The Atrocity Exhibition) Rhodos, Denmark, 1969 The absolute first, first edition of The Atrocity Exhibition, but in Danish. Translated by Jannick Storm. New Worlds Number 194, London, September/October 1969 Signed by JGB. Contains the short story, A Place And A Time To Die, which was reprinted in New Worlds Quarterly, 1971 New Worlds Number 196, London, December 1969 Signed by JGB. Contains the book review, Alphabets of Unreason, a look at Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler. Re-printed in A User's Guide to the Millennium New Worlds Number 197, London, January 1970 Signed by JGB. Contains the short story, Coitus 80: A Description Of The Sexual Act in 1980 New Worlds Number 198, London, February 1970 Signed by JGB. Contains the short story, Journey Across A Crater, which was reprinted in New Worlds Quarterly, 1971. New Worlds Number 199, London, March 1970 Signed by JGB. Contains the short story, Princess Margaret's Facelift: An Intersection Of Fiction And Reality The Atrocity Exhibition Doubleday, New York, June 12, 1970 Collects: The Atrocity Exhibition • The Unversity of Death • The Assassination Weapon • You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe • Notes Toward A Mental Breakdown • The Great American Nude • The Summer Cannibals • Tolerances of the Human Face • You and Me and the Continuum • Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy • Love and Napalm: Export USA • Crash! • The Generations of America • Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan • The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered As A Downhill Motor Race, plus an interview with George MacBeth called "The New Science Fiction". The Atrocity Exhibition Jonathan Cape, London, July, 1970 Collects: The Atrocity Exhibition • The Unversity of Death • The Assassination Weapon • You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe • Notes Toward A Mental Breakdown • The Great American Nude • The Summer Cannibals • Tolerances of the Human Face • You and Me and the Continuum • Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy • Love and Napalm: Export USA • Crash! • The Generations of America • Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan • The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered As A Downhill Motor Race. Fantastic, Volume 19, Number 6, August 1970 Contains the short story, Say Goodbye To The Wind which was reprinted in the collection Vermilion Sands. Ambit 44, London, Summer 1970 Contains the "surgical fiction", Mae West's Reduction Mammoplasty. This issue of Ambit also contains six of Michael Foreman's illustrations for the pulped Doubleday edition of The Atrocity Exhibition. Ambit 45, London, Autumn 1970 Contains the "Advertiser's Announcement", Placental Insufficiency. Ambit 46, London, Winter 1970 Contains the "Advertiser's Announcement", Venus Smiles. Best SF Stories from New Worlds 6, Edited by Michael Moorcock, Panther, London, 1970 Contains the short story, The Killing Ground. The Crystal World, Panther, London, 1970 Second Panther edition. What hair JGB's been losing off the front he's been growing in the back, as even the Hermit of Shepperton gets funky. He looks cool, but he's secretly writing Crash... before his own little "accident"! He's not as productive as before, no doubt... but still has enough short stories kicking around to publish yet another collection, Chronopolis. And in the US, Grove Press finally renames and publishes The Atrocity Exhibition as Love & Napalm: Export USA... two years late. New Worlds 1: The Science Fiction Quarterly Edited by Michael Moorcock, Berkley, NY, September, 1971 This paperback has been assigned issue number 202. Contains the short stories, A Place And A Time To Die, which had originally appeared in NW 194, and Journey Across A Crater, which had originally appeared in NW 198 Vermilion Sands Berkley, NY, April, 1971 Collects: • Prima Belladonna • The Thousand Dreams of Stellavision • Cry Hope, Cry Fury! • Venus Smiles • Studio 5, The Stars • The Cloud Sculptors of Coral D • Say Goodbye to the Wind • The Screen Game Luna Monthly Number 24/25 May/June, 1971 Contains J.G. Ballard: A Profile by Mark Purcell New Worlds 2: The Science Fiction Quarterly Edited by Michael Moorcock, Sphere Books, London, 1971 The second in the series of paperback books, which was subsequently assigned the issue number 203. Contains the short story, Visions Of Hell, an appreciation of Wyndham Lewis's trilogy The Human Age, which had originally appeared in NW 160 The Inner Landscape Paperback Library, NY, 1971 Contains the short story, The Voices of Time which was collected in Chronopolis. The Overloaded Man Panther, London, 1971, Second Edition The Day Of Forever Panther, London, 1971, Second Edition Chronopolis Putnam, NY, 1972 Collects: The Voices of Time • The Drowned Giant • The Terminal Beach • Manhole 69 • Storm Bird, Storm Dreamer • The Sound-Sweep • Billenium • Chronopolis • Build-Up • The Garden of Time • End Game • The Watch-towers • Now Wakes The Sea • Zone of Terror • The Cage of Sand • Deep End. Ambit 50 London, Spring 1972 Contains the short story, The Side Effects of Orthonovin G. Gettin It On!... It's almost 1973 and JGB and Da Boyz leer at stripper Euphoria Bliss, who made her reputation by taking her clothes off while giving readings of scientific papers and JGB's stuff... musta been one heck of an act! Michael Foreman tell me: Euphoria Bliss photograph was taken at the Royal Academy of Art in front of a Paolozzi sculpture being exhibited at the time. I think it was taken for the Sunday Times to commemorate an Ambit anniversary. Probably the 15th. Left to right, our funky revellers include Eduardo Paolozzi, sculptor and contributing editor of Ambit, JGB, Mike Foreman, art editor of Ambit and illustrator for the Doubleday edition of The Atrocity Exhibition, and Dr. Martin Bax, editor of Ambit. Chronopolis Berkley, NY, August, 1972 Love & Napalm: Export USA Grove Press, NY, 1972 Collects: Introduction by William Burroughs (this edition only) • The Atrocity Exhibition • The Unversity of Death • The Assassination Weapon • You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe • Notes Toward A Mental Breakdown • The Great American Nude • The Summer Cannibals • Tolerances of the Human Face • You and Me and The Continuum • Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy • Love and Napalm: Export USA • Crash! • The Generations of America • Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan • The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race Ambit 53 London, Winter 1972/73 Contains the short story, The Greatest Television Show On Earth Ambit 55 London, Summer 1973 Contains the novel extract, Crash. Crash Jonathan Cape, London, June 1973 Crash Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY 1973 Evergreen Review 96 NY, Spring 1973 Contains the short story, The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered As A Downhill Motor Race, and Krafft-Ebbing Visits Dealey Plaza: The Recent Fiction of JG Ballard, a review of Love & Napalm: Export USA by Gerome Tarshis Tomorrow and Tomorrow Edited by Damon Knight, Simon & Shuster, NY, 1973 Contains the short story, The Sound Sweep. The Disaster Area Granada, London, 1973 BreakThrough Fictioneers Something Else Press, NY, 1973 Contains the short stories, Coitus 80 and Princess Margaret’s Facelift Vermilion Sands Jonathan Cape, London, November 1973 Collects: Preface (British editions only) • The Thousand Dreams of Stellavision • Cry Hope, Cry Fury! • Venus Smiles • Studio 5, The Stars • The Cloud Sculptors of Coral D • Say Goodbye to the Wind • The Screen Game • The Singing Statues (British editions only).