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Memories of the Space Age 
Dust-jacket illustration, Europe after the Rain, by Max Ernst for Memories of the Space AgeAuthor(s) J.G. Ballard Illustrator Jeffrey K. Potter Cover artist Max Ernst Country United States Language English Genre(s) Science fiction short stories Publisher Arkham House Publication date 1988 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages 216 pp ISBN 0-87054-157-9 OCLC Number 17954351 Dewey Decimal 823/.914 19 LC Classification PR6052.A46 M46 1988 Memories of the Space Age is a collection of Science fiction stories by author J.G. Ballard. It was released in 1988 by Arkham House. It was published in an edition of 4,903 copies and was the author's first book published by Arkham House. The stories, set at Cape Canaveral, originally appeared in the magazines Ambit, Fantastic Stories, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Interzone, New Worlds and Playboy.
Contents
Memories of the Space Age contains the following stories:
- "The Cage of Sand"
- "A Question of Re-entry"
- "The Dead Astronaut"
- "My Dream of Flying to Wake Island"
- "News from the Sun"
- "Memories of the Space Age"
- "Myths of the Near Future"
- "The Man Who Walked on the Moon"
References
- Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc.. pp. 143. ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
- Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd.. pp. 57.
- Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. pp. 158. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
- Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc.. pp. 134–135. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.
- Rossi, Umberto, 2009. "A Little Something about Dead Astronauts”, Science-Fiction Studies, #107, 36:1 (March), pp. 101-120.
External links
Works by J. G. Ballard Novels: The Wind From Nowhere (1961) • The Drowned World (1962) • The Burning World (1964) • The Crystal World (1966) • The Atrocity Exhibition (1969) • Crash (1973) • Concrete Island (1974) • High Rise (1975) • The Unlimited Dream Company (1979) • Hello America (1981) • Empire of the Sun (1984) • The Day of Creation (1987) • Running Wild (1988) • The Kindness of Women (1991) • Rushing to Paradise (1994) • Cocaine Nights (1996) • Super-Cannes (2000) • Millennium People (2003) • Kingdom Come (2006)
Short stories: "Mobile" (1957) • "Track 12" (1958) • "Zone of Terror" (1960) • "The Sound-Sweep" (1960) • "The Voices of Time" (1960) • "Studio 5, The Stars" (1961) • "Deep End" (1961) • "Mr F. is Mr F." (1961) • "Billennium" (1962) • "Minus One" (1963) • "The Recognition" (1967) • " The Day of Forever" (1967) • "The Concentration City" (1967) • "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan" (1968) "Venus Smiles" (1971) •
Short story
collections:The Voices of Time and Other Stories (1962) • Billennium (1962) • Passport to Eternity (1963) • The Four-Dimensional Nightmare (1963) • The Terminal Beach (1964) • The Impossible Man (1966) • The Overloaded Man (1967) • The Disaster Area (1967) • The Day of Forever (1967) • Vermilion Sands (1971) • Chronopolis and Other Stories (1971) • Low-Flying Aircraft and Other Stories (1976) • The Best of J. G. Ballard (1977) • The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard (1978) • The Venus Hunters (1980) • Myths of the Near Future (1982) • The Voices of Time (1985) • Memories of the Space Age (1988) • War Fever (1990) • The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 1 (2006) The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 2 (2006)
Essays and reviews Autobiography Miracles of Life (2008)
Film adaptations & work When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970) • Crash! (1971) • Empire of the Sun (1987) • Crash (1996) • The Atrocity Exhibition (2001) • Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude (2002)
Categories:- 1988 short story collections
- Short story collections by J. G. Ballard
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