War Fever
Author: | J. G. Ballard |
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991 Collins, 1990 |
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Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
A war-ravaged Beirut is the setting for the title story of this visionary collection, a tale in which a young street fighter inadvertently discovers how to bring an to the bloodshed only to find that his solution is all too effective as far as some supposedly neutral observers are concerned. Other stories feature an assassination plot against an American astronaut, the leader of an authoritarian religious movement; a man who is destroyed by a car crash and resolves never to leave his apartment again; and the survivor of a toxic-waste ship wrecked on a deserted Caribbean island.
Table of Contents:
- War Fever - (1989) - novelette
- The Secret History of World War 3 - (1988) - short story
- Dream Cargoes - (1990) - short story
- The Object of the Attack - (1984) - short story
- Love in a Colder Climate - (1989) - short story
- The Largest Theme Park in the World - (1989) - short story
- Answers to a Questionnaire - (1985) - short story
- The Air Disaster - (1975) - short story
- Report on an Unidentified Space Station - (1982) - short story
- The Man Who Walked on the Moon - (1985) - short story
- The Enormous Space - (1989) - short story
- Memories of the Space Age - (1982) - novelette
- Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown - (1976) - short story
- The Index - (1977) - short story
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