A User's Guide To The Millennium: Essays and Reviews

A User's Guide To The Millennium: Essays And Reviews is a collection of writings by the British author J. G. Ballard. Published in 1996, the book brings together many of Ballard's short pieces for magazines and newspapers, and covers reviews, essays and musing on subject from art, literature and science. The book also contains a selection of autobiographical writings, and celebrations of Ballard favourites, Science-Fiction cinema and American author William S. Burroughs.

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
  • A User's Guide to the Millennium (1996)
Autobiography
  • Miracles of Life (2008)
Film adaptations
and 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)


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