**Named a Best Book of the Year by the *Washington Post* , the *Boston Globe* , the *Los Angeles Times* , and the *San Francisco Chronicle* A collection of 98 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories, spanning five decades, venerates the remarkable imagination of J. G. Ballard.** With a body of work unparalleled in twentieth-century literature, J. G. Ballard is recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic writers in the world. With the much-hailed release of *The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard* , readers now have a means to celebrate the unmatched range and mesmerizing cadences of a literary genius. Whether writing about musical orchids, human cannibalism, or the secret history of World War III, Ballard’s *Complete Stories* evokes the hallucinations of Kafka and Borges in its ability to render modern paranoia and fantastical creations on the page. Includes the story The Garden of Time, the inspiration for the 2024 Met Gala Dress code.