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The four-dimensional nightmare

The four-dimensional nightmare

by J. G. Ballard

1963English Short storiesScience fiction
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197 p. ; 21 cm

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English Short storiesScience fiction
First published 1963

About the author

J. G. Ballard
J. G. Ballard

15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009

James Graham Ballard was born and raised in the International Settlement in Shanghai, China to a chemist. In 1943 the Japanese occupied the International Settlement and Ballard's family was sent to the Lunghua Civilian Assembly Center, where they were interned for two years until the end of World War II. In 1946, Ballard went to England with his mother and sister, and stayed on in England after his mother and sister returned to China to rejoin his father. In 1949 he went to King's College, Cambridge to study medicine, but he began writing fiction and abandoned medicine in 1952 to pursue writing. In 1953 he joined the Air Force and was sent to the Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan to train. There he di…

Author

J. G. Ballard

First published

1963

Pages

208

Read time

≈ 5h

Editions

10

Language

English

Publisher

Penguin

ISBN

9780140023459

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