Full Details
Memories of the Space Age
| Author: | J. G. Ballard |
| Publisher: |
Arkham House, 1988 |
| Series: | |
|
This book does not appear to be part of a series. If this is incorrect, and you know the name of the series to which it belongs, please let us know. |
|
| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | |
| Awards: | |
| Lists: | |
| Links: |
|
| Avg Member Rating: |
|
|
|
|
Synopsis
This collection brings together Ballard's ''Cape Canaveral stories,'' eight in all, written between 1962 and 1985, and set in a future when the space program has ceased and civilization itself seems on the wane. Images of waste, abandonment, emptiness and desolation recur toppling towers, dead astronauts circling the Earth endlessly, deserts, empty swimming pools. In ''News from the Sun,'' life itself is slowly draining away as people are increasingly subject to long fugue states, recalling Eliot's line, ''Not with a bang but a whimper.'' In the title story, the protagonist alternately wanders a deserted Canaveral and tends his dying wife. Ballard writes a clear, flawless prose, rich in deft phrase and vivid imagery. This book is not for the ray-gun and bug-eyed monster crowd.
Table of Contents:
- The Cage of Sand - (1962) - novelette
- A Question of Re-Entry - (1963) - novelette
- The Dead Astronaut - (1968) - short story
- My Dream of Flying to Wake Island - (1974) - short story
- News from the Sun - (1981) - novelette
- Memories of the Space Age - (1982) - novelette
- Myths of the Near Future - (1982) - novelette
- The Man Who Walked on the Moon - (1985) - short story
Excerpt
No excerpt currently exists for this novel.
Reviews
There are currently no reviews for this novel. Be the first to submit one! You must be logged in to submit a review in the BookTrackr section above.
Images
No alternate cover images currently exist for this novel.
