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[rone]

Mom had died (not really my mom because dream-me wasn't really me so i wasn't feeling any grief) so my brother (not Paul) and i spent the day taking care of post-mortem things with our stepdad, J. G. Ballard (none of whose books i've read; i blame reddragdiva for mentioning him recently), and at the end i invited him to move in with me and my brother (neither of us were married and dream-dad was long gone).

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[oh6.livejournal.com]

There was a large collection published recently, The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard, but for a smaller collection, "The Voices of Time" is definitely a good story to start with. "Chronopolis" (the title story of an old collection) and "The Concentration City" also stuck in my mind.

[oh6.livejournal.com]

OH, and of course, there's "The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race"... and searching for it reveals that the above big collection is actually in 2 volumes, which I hadn't known when I got the first. Whoops.

[reddragdiva]

http://www.amazon.com/Voices-Time-J-G-Ballard/dp/0575401303

[reddragdiva]

Secondhand paperback collections are readily available in UK and Australia, dunno about US.