CHRONOPOLIS AND OTHER STORIES

by Ballard

$250 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1971 . Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects sixteen stories most first published in the early 1960s including much of his best early short fiction . Includes Build-up, an overpopulation dystopia, and Chronopolis, in which it is illegal to own a watch or a clock. In many of these stories alienated protagonists bear witness to the world's descent into a perverse decadence; if they

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