J.G. Ballard - The Short Fiction Concordance
concordance
(n.) An alphabetical list of the principal words used in a book or body
of work, with their immediate contexts.
Particularly in his short work,
Ballard has always experimented with the form of his fictions; fiction
as book index, as questionnaire, as psychiatric report. This concordance
of Ballard's short works is part of a project to 'decode' the work using
some of Ballard's own techniques — as he says:
The concordance is based on all the material in the one-volume Complete Short Stories (Flamingo 2001) together with the following stories from The Atrocity Exhibition:'...the open-ended character of my fiction requires the reader himself to make a significant contribution. I'm offering a kit with which the reader, using my books as a sort of instructional manual (fit nozzle A into socket B, and you'll hear a loud whirring noise, which is the cosmos getting through to him).'
The Atrocity Exhibition
The Assassination Weapon
Crash!
The Death Module
The Great American Nude
Love and Napalm: Export USA
Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy
The Summer Cannibals
Tolerances of the Human Face
The University of Death
You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe
You and Me and the Continuum
Eventually I hope to extend the
concordance to the complete works.
Note
In the main panel of the concordance,
the contexts are in page order (thus approximate chronological order)
as taken from The Complete Short Stories. However, the page numberings
for the extra Atrocity Exhibition stories are taken from the
1990 Re/Search edition with 2000 added to differentiate them from the
Complete stories.
The contexts are also given
a code indicating which story they come from, the key is below.
Made with the help of Concordance - Mike Bonsall - April 2007
| 13C | Thirteen to Centaurus (1962) |
| 60Z | The 60 Minute Zoom (1976) |
| AD | The Air Disaster (1975) |
| AE | The Atrocity Exhibition (1966) |
| AJK | The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race (1966) |
| ATQ | Answers to a Questionnaire (1985) |
| AW | The Assassination Weapon (1966) |
| B | Billennium (1961) |
| BM | The Beach Murders (1966) |
| C | Chronopolis (1960) |
| CA | The Comsat Angels (1968) |
| CC | The Concentration City (1957) |
| CHC | Cry Hope, Cry Fury! (1967) |
| CRA | Crash! (1969) |
| CS | The Cage of Sand (1962) |
| CSC | The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral D (1967) |
| DA | The Dead Astronaut (1968) |
| DC | Dream Cargoes (1990) |
| DE | Deep End (1961) |
| DF | The Day of Forever (1966) |
| DFW | My Dream of Flying to Wake Island (1974) |
| DG | The Drowned Giant (1964) |
| DM | The Death Module (1967) |
| DS | The Delta at Sunset (1964) |
| DT | The Dead Time (1977) |
| E | Escapement (1956) |
| EG | End-Game (1962) |
| GA | The Gentle Assassin (1961) |
| GAN | The Great American Nude (1967) |
| GT | The Garden of Time (1962) |
| GTN | The Gioconda of the Twilight Noon (1964) |
| GTS | The Greatest Television Show on Earth (1972) |
| GVD | A Guide to Virtual Death (1992) |
| HFF | A Host of Furious Fancies (1980) |
| HWT | Having A Wonderful Time (1978) |
| I | The Index (1977) |
| ICU | The Intensive Care Unit (1977) |
| IM | The Illuminated Man (1964) |
| IO | The Insane Ones (1962) |
| KG | The Killing Ground (1969) |
| LCC | Love in a Colder Climate (1989) |
| LDG | The Life and Death of God (1976) |
| LFA | Low-Flying Aircraft (1975) |
| LL | The Lost Leonardo (1964) |
| LNE | Love and Napalm: Export USA (1968) |
| LTP | The Largest Theme Park in the World (1989) |
| LW | The Last World of Mr Goddard (1960) |
| M69 | Manhole 69 (1957) |
| M99 | The Man on the 99th Floor (1962) |
| MA | Motel Architecture (1978) |
| MF | Mr F. is Mr F. (1961) |
| MFM | The Message from Mars (1992) |
| MNF | Myths of the Near Future (1982) |
| MO | Minus One (1962) |
| MSA | Memories of the Space Age (1982) |
| MWM | The Man Who Walked on the Moon (1985) |
| NFS | News from the Sun (1981) |
| NTM | Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown (1976) |
| NWS | Now Wakes the Sea (1962) |
| NZ | Now: Zero (1959) |
| OAU | One Afternoon at Utah Beach (1978) |
| OM | The Overloaded Man (1961) |
| OOA | The Object of the Attack (1984) |
| PAJ | Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy (1967) |
| PB | Prima Belladonna (1956) |
| PCD | Prisoner of the Coral Deep (1964) |
| PE | Passport to Eternity (1962) |
| PTD | A Place and a Time to Die (1969) |
| QR | A Question of Re-Entry (1962) |
| R | The Recognition (1967) |
| RE | The Reptile Enclosure (1962) |
| ROP | Report from an Obscure Planet (1992) |
| RUS | Report on An Unidentified Space Station (1982) |
| S | The Smile (1976) |
| S5 | Studio 5, The Stars (1961) |
| SA | The Sudden Afternoon (1962) |
| SBS | Storm-Bird, Storm-Dreamer (1966) |
| SC | The Summer Cannibals (1969) |
| SG | The Screen Game (1962) |
| SGW | Say Goodbye to the Wind (1970) |
| SM | The Subliminal Man 63 (1962) |
| SS | The Sound-Sweep (1960) |
| T12 | Track 12 (1958) |
| TB | The Terminal Beach (1964) |
| TDS | The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista (1962) |
| TES | The Enormous Space (1989) |
| THF | Tolerances of the Human Face (1969) |
| TIM | The Impossible Man (1966) |
| TMY | Tomorrow is a Million Years (1966) |
| TP | Time of Passage (1964) |
| TSS | The Singing Statues (1962) |
| TT | The Time-Tombs (1962) |
| TW | Theatre of War (1977) |
| UC | The Ultimate City (1976) |
| UD | The University of Death (1968) |
| VD | The Volcano Dances (1964) |
| VH | The Venus Hunters (1962) |
| VS | Venus Smiles (1957) |
| VT | The Voices of Time (1960) |
| WF | War Fever (1989) |
| WG | The Waiting Grounds (1959) |
| WIW | Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan (1968) |
| WT | The Watch-Towers (1962) |
| WW3 | The Secret History of World War 3 (1988) |
| YCM | You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe (1966) |
| YMC | You and Me and the Continuum (1966) |
| Z20 | Zodiac 2000 (1978) |
| ZT | Zone of Terror (1960) |