Contents -- Foreword -- General Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Chronology or a Version of J. G. Ballard's Life -- INTRODUCTION: J. G. Ballard and the Contemporary -- CHAPTER ONE: The Geometry of the Space Age: J. G. Ballard's Short Fiction and Science Fiction of the 1960s -- CHAPTER TWO: Disquieting Features: An Introductory Tour of The Atrocity Exhibition -- CHAPTER THREE: The Gothic, the Body, and the Failed Homeopathy Argument: Reading Crash -- CHAPTER FOUR: Death at Work: The Cinematic Imagination of J. G. Ballard -- CHAPTER FIVE: Mind is the Battlefield: Reading Ballard's 'Life Trilogy' as War Literature -- CHAPTER SIX: From Shanghai to Shepperton: Crises of Representation in J. G. Ballard's Londons -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Visions of Europe in Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Situating the Violence of J. G. Ballard's Postmillennial Fiction: The Possibilities of Sacrifice, the Certainties of Trauma -- Afterword -- Kingdom Come: An Interview with J. G. Ballard -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.