The Overloaded Man

The Overloaded Man

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name = The Overloaded Man
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image_caption = cover of the first edition
author = J. G. Ballard
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Science Fiction and fantasy short stories
publisher = Panther Books
release_date = 1967
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 158 pp
isbn = NA
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"The Overloaded Man" is a collection of stories by J. G. Ballard, first published in 1967 as a paperback by Panther Books.

Contents

* "Now: Zero"
* "The Time-Tombs"
* "Thirteen to Centaurus"
* "Track 12"
* "Passport to Eternity"
* "Escapement"
* "Time of Passage"
* "The Venus Hunters"
* "The Coming of the Unconscious"
* "The Overloaded Man"

The first seven stories are science fiction and fantasy originally published in the 1950s and early 1960s.

"The Venus Hunters" is concerned less with aliens than with our need to believe in them. "The Coming of the Unconscious" is an essay on surrealism in art. The protagonist of "The Overloaded Man" reduces his perception of the world to abstract forms and colours: this has been called "the death of affect".

References

*cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | authorlink=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=Advent | pages=28 | date=1974|id=ISBN 0-911682-20-1

External links

* [http://www.rickmcgrath.com/jgb.html The Terminal Collection: JG Ballard First Editions]


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