J.G. Ballard - The Concordance
concordance (n.) An alphabetical list of the principal words used in a book or body of work, with their immediate contexts.
Ballard always experimented with the form of his fictions; fiction as book index, as questionnaire, as psychiatric report. This concordance of Ballard's books is part of a project to 'decode' his work using some of Ballard's own techniques — as he says:
The concordance is based on all the material in Ballard's published novels, his non-fiction books; A User's Guide to the Millennium and autobiography Miracles of Life. Also included is all the material in the one-volume Complete Short Stories (Flamingo 2001), the stories from The Atrocity Exhibition (Re/Search 1990), and various uncollected pieces, such as Neil Armstrong Remembers His Journey to the Moon. See details in table below.'...the open-ended character of my fiction requires the reader himself to make a significant contribution. I'm offering a kit with which the reader, using my books as a sort of instructional manual (fit nozzle A into socket B, and you'll hear a loud whirring noise, which is the cosmos getting through to him).' (Interview with Graeme Revell, July 1983)
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This is a companion project to my concordance of JG Ballard interviews.
Note
In the main panel of the concordance, the contexts are in order of: Year of first publication, Abbreviated title (a guide to the abbreviations is below, together with editions used in this concordance), and Page number.
Please help to improve the concordance - let me know of any errors or suggestions.
Made with the help of Concordance - Mike Bonsall - August 2008
| 13C | Thirteen to Centaurus (1962) |
| 60Z | The 60 Minute Zoom (1976) |
| AA1 | Advertiser's Announcements: Homage to Claire Churchill (Ambit 32 1967) |
| AA2 | Advertiser's Announcements: Does the Angle Between Two Walls Have a Happy Ending? (Ambit 33 1967) |
| AA3 | Advertiser's Announcements: A Neural Interval (Ambit 36 1968) |
| AA4 | Advertiser's Announcements: Placental Insufficiency (Ambit 45 1970) |
| AA5 | Advertiser's Announcements: Venus Smiles (Ambit 46 1971) |
| AD | The Air Disaster (1975) |
| AE | The Atrocity Exhibition [short story] (1966) |
| AJK | The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race (1966) |
| ATQ | Answers to a Questionnaire (1985) |
| AW | The Assassination Weapon (1966) |
| B | Billennium (1961) |
| BAT | The Bathroom (The Running Man 2 1968) |
| BM | The Beach Murders (1966) |
| C | Crash [novel] (1973) (Vintage 1995) |
| C80 | Coitus 80: A Description of the Sexual Act in 1980 (New Worlds 197 1970) |
| CA | The Comsat Angels (1968) |
| CC | The Concentration City (1957) |
| CH | Chronopolis (1960) |
| CHC | Cry Hope, Cry Fury! (1967) |
| CI | Concrete Island (1974) (Panther 1985) |
| CN | Cocaine Nights (1996) (Flamingo 1997) |
| COL | Untitled Collages (New Worlds 213 1978) |
| CRA | Crash! [short story] (1969) |
| CS | The Cage of Sand (1962) |
| CSC | The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral D (1967) |
| CW | The Crystal World (1966) (Panther 1978) |
| D | The Drought (1965) (Penguin 1974) |
| DA | The Dead Astronaut (1968) |
| DC | The Day of Creation (1987) |
| DCG | Dream Cargoes (1990) |
| DE | Deep End (1961) |
| DF | The Day of Forever (1966) |
| DFW | My Dream of Flying to Wake Island (1974) |
| DG | The Drowned Giant (1964) |
| DM | The Death Module (1967) |
| DS | The Delta at Sunset (1964) |
| DT | The Dead Time (1977) |
| DW | The Drowned World (1962) (Penguin 1968) |
| DYF | The Dying Fall (Interzone 106 1996) |
| E | Escapement (1956) |
| EG | End-Game (1962) |
| ES | Empire of the Sun (1984) (Panther 1985) |
| GA | The Gentle Assassin (1961) |
| GAN | The Great American Nude (1967) |
| GOA | The Generations of America (1990) |
| GT | The Garden of Time (1962) |
| GTN | The Gioconda of the Twilight Noon (1964) |
| GTS | The Greatest Television Show on Earth (1972) |
| GVD | A Guide to Virtual Death (1992) |
| HA | Hello America (1981) (Panther 1985) |
| HFF | A Host of Furious Fancies (1980) |
| HR | High Rise (1975) (Harper Perennial 2006) |
| HWT | Having A Wonderful Time (1978) |
| I | The Index (1977) |
| ICU | The Intensive Care Unit (1977) |
| IM | The Illuminated Man (1964) |
| IO | The Insane Ones (1962) |
| IY1 | The Invisible Years (Ambit 67 1976) |
| IY2 | The Invisible Years (Ambit 69 1977) |
| IY3 | The Invisible Years (Ambit 72 1977) |
| IY4 | The Invisible Years (Ambit 73 1978) |
| IY5 | The Invisible Years (Ambit 75 1978) |
| IY6 | The Invisible Years (Ambit 78 1979) |
| JAC | Journey Across a Crater (New Worlds Quarterly 1971) |
| JFA | Jane Fonda's Augmentation Mammoplasty (Semiotexte 1990) |
| KC | Kingdom Come (2006) (Harper Perennial 2007) |
| KG | The Killing Ground (1969) |
| KW | The Kindness of Women (1991) (Flamingo 1994) |
| L | Love: A Print-Out for Claire Churchill (Ambit 37 1968) |
| LCC | Love in a Colder Climate (1989) |
| LDG | The Life and Death of God (1976) |
| LFA | Low-Flying Aircraft (1975) |
| LL | The Lost Leonardo (1964) |
| LNE | Love and Napalm: Export USA (1968) |
| LOM | How Dr Christopher Evans Landed on the Moon (New Worlds 187 1969) |
| LTP | The Largest Theme Park in the World (1989) |
| LW | The Last World of Mr Goddard (1960) |
| M69 | Manhole 69 (1957) |
| M99 | The Man on the 99th Floor (1962) |
| MA | Motel Architecture (1978) |
| MF | Mr F. is Mr F. (1961) |
| MFM | The Message from Mars (1992) |
| ML | Miracles of Life (2008) (Fourth Estate 2008) |
| MNF | Myths of the Near Future (1982) |
| MO | Minus One (1962) |
| MP | Millennium People (2003) (Flamingo 2003) |
| MSA | Memories of the Space Age (1982) |
| MWM | The Man Who Walked on the Moon (1985) |
| MWR | Mae West's Reduction Mammoplasty (1990) |
| NAR | Neil Armstrong Remembers His Journey to the Moon (Interzone 53 1991) |
| NFS | News from the Sun (1981) |
| NTM | Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown (1976) |
| NWS | Now Wakes the Sea (1962) |
| NZ | Now: Zero (1959) |
| OAU | One Afternoon at Utah Beach (1978) |
| OM | The Overloaded Man (1961) |
| OOA | The Object of the Attack (1984) |
| PAJ | Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy (1967) |
| PB | Prima Belladonna (1956) |
| PCD | Prisoner of the Coral Deep (1964) |
| PE | Passport to Eternity (1962) |
| PMF | Princess Margaret's Facelift (1990) |
| PTD | A Place and a Time to Die (1969) |
| QER | Queen Elizabeth's Rhinoplasty (1976) |
| QR | A Question of Re-Entry (1962) |
| R | The Recognition (1967) |
| RE | The Reptile Enclosure (1962) |
| ROP | Report from an Obscure Planet (1992) |
| RP | Rushing to Paradise (1994) (Flamingo 1995) |
| RUS | Report on An Unidentified Space Station (1982) |
| RW | Running Wild (1988) (Arena 1989) |
| S | The Smile (1976) |
| S5 | Studio 5, The Stars (1961) |
| SA | The Sudden Afternoon (1962) |
| SAJ | The Secret Autobiography of J.G.B****** (Ambit 96 1984) |
| SBS | Storm-Bird, Storm-Dreamer (1966) |
| SC | Super-Cannes (2000) (Flamingo 2001) |
| SCN | The Summer Cannibals (1969) |
| SEO | The Side-Effects of Orthonovin G (Ambit 50 1972) |
| SG | The Screen Game (1962) |
| SGW | Say Goodbye to the Wind (1970) |
| SM | The Subliminal Man 63 (1962) |
| SS | The Sound-Sweep (1960) |
| T12 | Track 12 (1958) |
| TB | The Terminal Beach (1964) |
| TDS | The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista (1962) |
| TES | The Enormous Space (1989) |
| THF | Tolerances of the Human Face (1969) |
| TIM | The Impossible Man (1966) |
| TMY | Tomorrow is a Million Years (1966) |
| TP | Time of Passage (1964) |
| TSS | The Singing Statues (1962) |
| TT | The Time-Tombs (1962) |
| TW | Theatre of War (1977) |
| UC | The Ultimate City (1976) |
| UD | The University of Death (1968) |
| UDC | The Unlimited Dream Company (1979) (Flamingo 1992) |
| UGM | A User's Guide to the Millennium (1996) (Picador USA 1997) |
| VD | The Volcano Dances (1964) |
| VH | The Venus Hunters (1962) |
| VN | The Violent Noon (1951) |
| VS | Venus Smiles (1957) |
| VT | The Voices of Time (1960) |
| WF | War Fever (1989) |
| WFN | The Wind From Nowhere (1961) (Penguin 1967) |
| WG | The Waiting Grounds (1959) |
| WIB | What I Believe (Interzone 8 1978) |
| WIW | Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan (1968) |
| WT | The Watch-Towers (1962) |
| WW3 | The Secret History of World War 3 (1988) |
| YCM | You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe (1966) |
| YMC | You and Me and the Continuum (1966) |
| Z20 | Zodiac 2000 (1978) |
| ZT | Zone of Terror (1960) |