1968 - 1973





Unicorn Bookshop chapbook, 1968.
Signed by JGB. Number 46 of 50. Contains the short story, Why I Want To Fuck Ronald Reagan. As researched by Mike Holliday: "This is the piece that led to the pulping of what would have been the first U.S. edition of The Atrocity Exhibition in 1970. Senior management at Doubleday ordered the book's destruction shortly before publication, after reading Why I Want To ... But where had the piece first appeared? It's common to see Ronald Reagan: The Magazine of Poetry (1968), edited by John Sladek and Pamela Zoline, being credited with first publication, and the piece was very possibly written with that magazine in mind. However, this appearance must have been in the second half of 1968, since an advertisement for 'Magazine of Poetry' appeared in New Worlds, but not until October. An appearance in International Times (#26, 16-29 February 1968) must surely have been earlier. But there it was noted that the piece had originally been published by 'Unicorn Books (Brighton)'. This was a chapbook limited to 250 copies, the first 50 being numbered and signed by Ballard; the publication date is given as 1968. It was the Unicorn Bookshop edition that led to the prosecution of the publisher, Bill Butler, for obscenity, as recounted by Ballard in the annotation notes that are included in recent editions of The Atrocity Exhibition. The police raid on the bookshop's premises, in which a copy of the Why I Want To ... chapbook was taken away, occurred in January 1968, implying that the Unicorn Bookshop publication did indeed precede that in International Times."




Circuit #6, London, June, 1968
Contains the first publication of Love and Napalm: Export USA which was reprinted in The Atrocity Exhibition, and Love And Napalm: Export USA.




The International Times, No. 26, London, February 16-29, 1968
Contains the short story, Why I Want To Fuck Ronald Reagan which was reprinted in Ronald Reagan, The Magazine of Poetry, The Atrocity Exhibition, and Love And Napalm: Export USA.




Playboy, Volume 15, Number 5, May 1968
Contains the short story, The Dead Astronaut.




The Running Man, Volume 1, Number 2, July-August 1968
Contains the short story, Love & Napalm: Export USA which was reprinted in The Atrocity Exhibition, and Love And Napalm: Export USA.




Ronald Reagan, The Magazine Of Poetry, London, Summer, 1968
Contains the short story, Why I Want To Fuck Ronald Reagan.




Transatlantic Review 29, London, Summer, 1968
Contains the short story, the university of death which was reprinted in The Atrocity Exhibition, and Love And Napalm: Export USA.




New Worlds Number 183, London, October 1968
Signed by JGB. Contains the short story, The Generations of America, which was reprinted in The Atrocity Exhibition, and Love And Napalm: Export USA.




Worlds Of IF, Volume 18, Number 12, December 1968
Contains the short story, The Comsat Angels.




The Crystal World, Panther, London, 1968. Paperback.




The Drowned World Penguin, London, 1968. Paperback.




Future Tense, Edited by Richard Curtis, Dell, NY 1968. Paperback.
Contains the short story, Billenium.




England Swings SF, Edited by Judith Merril, Ace, NY 1968. Paperback.
Contains the short story, You And Me And The Continuum.




Best Stories From New Worlds II, Edited By Michael Moorcock, Panther, London 1968. Paperback.
Contains the short story, You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe




Ambit 36 London, Summer 1968
Contains the short story, The Great American Nude, which was reprinted in The Atrocity Exhibition, and Love And Napalm: Export USA and another "Advertiser's Announcement", A Neural Interval.




Ambit 37 London, Autumn, 1968
Contains the concrete poem, Love: A Print Out for Claire Churchill. This issue of Ambit was published in newspaper broadsheet format; it also contained J. G. Ballard's Court Circular.




New Worlds Number 186, London, January 1969
Contains the short story, The Summer Cannibals, which was reprinted in The Atrocity Exhibition, and Love And Napalm: Export USA. It also contains a review of J. T. Frazer's book about theories of time, The Thousand Wounds And Flowers, re-printed in A User's Guide to the Millennium.
 



New Worlds Number 187, London, February 1969
Signed by JGB. Contains the article, Salvador Dali: the innocent as paranoid, which was re-printed (without the many illustrations) in A User's Guide to the Millennium. It also contains a mock computer printout, How Dr Christopher Evans Landed On The Moon.




New Worlds Number 188, London, March 1969
Signed by JGB. Contains the short story, The Killing Ground, which was reprinted in The Day Of Forever (2nd edition)




New Worlds Number 189, London, April 1969
Signed by JGB. Contains the short story, The Beach Murders, which was orginially called Confetti Royale and published in the February/March 1966 edition of Rogue magazine.




New Worlds Number 191, London, June 1969
Signed by JGB. Contains the book review, Use Your Vagina. JGB advises his readers to buy it, and it's interesting to note the outside back cover of this issue is a full-page ad for the book, which is called How To Achieve Sexual Ecstacy, by Stephan Gregory. It's 1969... you have to be over 21 to order it. The review was re-printed in A User's Guide to the Millennium.



The Disaster Area Panther Books, London, 1969. Paperback.




The New S.F. Edited by Langdon Jones, Hutchinson, London, 1969. Paperback.
Contains the JGB -- George MacBeth interview, The New Science Fiction, which was later reprinted in the Doubleday edition of The Atrocity Exhibition.




Encounter Volume 33, Number 3, London, September 1969
Signed by JGB. Contains the short story, Tolerances Of The Human Face, which was reprinted in The Atrocity Exhibition and Love and Napalm: Export USA.




Grusomhedssudstillingen Rhodos, Denmark, 1969. Paperback.
The absolute first, first edition of The Atrocity Exhibition, but in Danish. Translated by Jannick Storm.




The Inner Landscape Allison & Busby, London, 1969. Paperback.
Contains the short story, The Voices of Time




New Worlds Number 194, London, September/October 1969
Signed by JGB. Contains the short story, A Place And A Time To Die, which was reprinted in New Worlds Quarterly, 1971.




New Worlds Number 196, London, December 1969
Signed by JGB. Contains the book review, Alphabets of Unreason, a look at Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler. Re-printed in A User's Guide to the Millennium.




New Worlds Number 197, London, January 1970
Signed by JGB. Contains the short story, Coitus 80: A Description Of The Sexual Act in 1980.




New Worlds Number 198, London, February 1970
Signed by JGB. Contains the short story, Journey Across A Crater, which was reprinted in New Worlds Quarterly, 1971.




New Worlds Number 199, London, March 1970
Signed by JGB. Contains the short story, Princess Margaret's Facelift: An Intersection Of Fiction And Reality.




The Inner Landscape Cirgi Books, London, 1970. Paperback.
Contains the short story, The Voices of Time




Strange Fantasy Number 11, New York, Spring 1970
Contains the short story, The Sudden Afternoon




The Atrocity Exhibition Doubleday, New York, June 12, 1970. Hardcover.
With 13 illustrations by Michael Foreman. Collects: The Atrocity Exhibition • The Unversity of Death • The Assassination Weapon • You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe • Notes Toward A Mental Breakdown • The Great American Nude • The Summer Cannibals • Tolerances of the Human Face • You and Me and the Continuum • Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy • Love and Napalm: Export USA • Crash! • The Generations of America • Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan • The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered As A Downhill Motor Race, plus an interview with George MacBeth called "The New Science Fiction". Signed by JGB and Michael Foreman.




The Atrocity Exhibition Jonathan Cape, London, July, 1970. Hardcover.
Collects: The Atrocity Exhibition • The Unversity of Death • The Assassination Weapon • You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe • Notes Toward A Mental Breakdown • The Great American Nude • The Summer Cannibals • Tolerances of the Human Face • You and Me and the Continuum • Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy • Love and Napalm: Export USA • Crash! • The Generations of America • Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan • The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered As A Downhill Motor Race.




Fantastic, Volume 19, Number 6, August 1970
Contains the short story, Say Goodbye To The Wind which was reprinted in the collection Vermilion Sands.




"Good Elf", No. 1, London, September 1970
Contains a fragment of an interview conducted by Robert Lightfoot and David Pendleton




Ambit 44, London, Summer 1970
Contains the "surgical fiction", Mae West's Reduction Mammoplasty. This issue of Ambit also contains six of Michael Foreman's illustrations for the pulped Doubleday edition of The Atrocity Exhibition.  




Ambit 45, London, Autumn 1970
Contains the "Advertiser's Announcement", Placental Insufficiency.




Ambit 46, London, Winter 1970
Contains the "Advertiser's Announcement", Venus Smiles.




Best SF Stories from New Worlds 6, Edited by Michael Moorcock, Panther, London, 1970. Paperback.
Contains the short story, The Killing Ground.




The Crystal World, Panther, London, 1970. Paperback.




What hair JGB's been losing off the front he's been growing in the back, as even the Hermit of Shepperton gets funky. He looks cool, but he's secretly writing Crash... before his own little "accident"! He's not as productive as before, no doubt... but still has enough short stories kicking around to publish yet another collection, Chronopolis. And in the US, Grove Press finally renames and publishes The Atrocity Exhibition as Love & Napalm: Export USA... two years late.




New Worlds Quarterly 1 Edited by Michael Moorcock, Berkley, NY, September, 1971. Paperback.
This paperback has been assigned issue number 202. Contains the short stories, A Place And A Time To Die, which had originally appeared in NW 194, and Journey Across A Crater, which had originally appeared in NW 198




Vermilion Sands Berkley, NY, April, 1971. Paperback.
Collects: • Prima Belladonna • The Thousand Dreams of Stellavision • Cry Hope, Cry Fury! • Venus Smiles • Studio 5, The Stars • The Cloud Sculptors of Coral D • Say Goodbye to the Wind • The Screen Game




New Worlds 2: The Science Fiction Quarterly Edited by Michael Moorcock, Sphere Books, London, 1971. Paperback.
The second in the series of paperback books, which was subsequently assigned the issue number 203. Contains the short story, Visions Of Hell, an appreciation of Wyndham Lewis's trilogy The Human Age, which had originally appeared in NW 160.




The Inner Landscape Paperback Library, NY, 1971. Paperback.
Contains the short story, The Voices of Time which was collected in Chronopolis.




The Overloaded Man Panther, London, 1971. Paperback.




The Day Of Forever Panther, London, 1971. Paperback.




Chronopolis Putnam, NY, 1972. Hardcover.
Collects: The Voices of Time • The Drowned Giant • The Terminal Beach • Manhole 69 • Storm Bird, Storm Dreamer • The Sound-Sweep • Billenium • Chronopolis • Build-Up • The Garden of Time • End Game • The Watch-towers • Now Wakes The Sea • Zone of Terror • The Cage of Sand • Deep End.




Ambit 50 London, Spring 1972
Contains the short story, The Side Effects of Orthonovin G.




Gettin It On!... It's almost 1973 and JGB and Da Boyz leer at stripper Euphoria Bliss, who made her reputation by taking her clothes off while giving readings of scientific papers and JGB's stuff... musta been one heck of an act! Michael Foreman tell me: Euphoria Bliss photograph was taken at the Royal Academy of Art in front of a Paolozzi sculpture being exhibited at the time.  I think it was taken for the Sunday Times to commemorate an Ambit anniversary. Probably the 15th. Left to right, our funky revellers include Eduardo Paolozzi, sculptor and contributing editor of Ambit, JGB, Mike Foreman, art editor of Ambit and illustrator for the Doubleday edition of The Atrocity Exhibition, and Dr. Martin Bax, editor of Ambit.




Chronopolis Berkley, NY, August, 1972. Paperback.




The Atrocity Exhibition Panther, London, 1972. Paperback.




Karneval der Alligatoren Heyne-Buch, Munchen 1972. Paperback.
German language edition of The Drowned World.




Love & Napalm: Export USA Grove Press, NY, 1972. Hardcover.
Collects: Introduction by William Burroughs (this edition only) • The Atrocity Exhibition • The Unversity of Death • The Assassination Weapon • You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe • Notes Toward A Mental Breakdown • The Great American Nude • The Summer Cannibals • Tolerances of the Human Face • You and Me and The Continuum • Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy • Love and Napalm: Export USA • Crash! • The Generations of America • Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan • The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race




Fiction Vol. 1, No 2, New York, Fall 1972
Contains a fragment of the short story, You and Me and the Continuum.



Ambit 53 London, Winter 1972/73
Contains the short story, The Greatest Television Show On Earth.




Ambit 55 London, Summer 1973
Contains the novel extract, Crash.




Crash Jonathan Cape, London, June 1973. Hardcover.




Crash Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY 1973. Hardcover.




Evergreen Review 96 NY, Spring 1973. Paperback.
Contains the short story, The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered As A Downhill Motor Race, and Krafft-Ebbing Visits Dealey Plaza: The Recent Fiction of JG Ballard, a review of Love & Napalm: Export USA by Gerome Tarshis




Tomorrow and Tomorrow Edited by Damon Knight, Simon & Shuster, NY, 1973. Hardcover.
Contains the short story, The Sound Sweep.




The Disaster Area Granada, London, 1973. Paperback.




BreakThrough Fictioneers Something Else Press, NY, 1973. Hardcover.
Contains the short stories, Coitus 80 and Princess Margaret’s Facelift.




Vermilion Sands Jonathan Cape, London, November 1973. Hardcover.
Collects: Preface (British editions only) • The Thousand Dreams of Stellavision • Cry Hope, Cry Fury! • Venus Smiles • Studio 5, The Stars • The Cloud Sculptors of Coral D • Say Goodbye to the Wind • The Screen Game • The Singing Statues (British editions only).