British edition

• "The Terminal Beach" - A man who does not come to terms with the premature death of his wife and son steals away onto an island once used for testing nuclear weapon
  Nuclear weapon
  A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. Both reactions release vast quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter. The first fission bomb test released the same amount...
  
  s. Between the decaying buildings on the island, the reader follows his mental and physical decline.
• "A Question of Re-entry" - This story has some parallels to Joseph Conrad
  Joseph Conrad
  Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born English novelist.Conrad is regarded as one of the great novelists in English, although he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties...
  
  's Heart of Darkness
  Heart of Darkness
  Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1903 publication, it appeared as a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the "100 best novels" and part of the Western canon.The story centres on Charles...
  
  , with the protagonist traveling upriver in the Amazon rain forest, to meet a European who went native. The story evolves around the clash between civilization-based knowledge and native belief.
• "The Drowned Giant" - A giant human(oid) body washes ashore. The initial wonder soon gives way to banality as people start to climb over the body and remove or vandalize parts of it until the body is completely dismembered. It is then widely believed that the giant never existed at all.
• "End-Game" - A psychological match between a person on death row
  Death row
  Death row signifies the place, often a section of a prison, that houses individuals awaiting execution. The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting execution , even in places where no special facility or separate unit for condemned inmates exists.After individuals are found...
  
  , who lives with his executioner
  Executioner
  A judicial executioner is a person who carries out a death sentence ordered by the state or other legal authority, which was known in feudal terminology as high justice.-Scope and job:...
  
   in a comfortable house, and does not know the time and day of his execution. To pass the time, they are playing chess
  Chess
  Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
  
   and at the same time the death candidate tries to win a game of persuasion.
• "The Illuminated Man" - A precursor to the novel The Crystal World
  The Crystal World
  The Crystal World is a novel by English author J. G. Ballard, published in 1966.- Plot introduction :The novel tells the story of a physician trying to make his way deep into the jungle to a secluded leprosy treatment facility...
  
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• "The Reptile Enclosure" - Infrared
  Infrared
  Infrared light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength longer than that of visible light, measured from the nominal edge of visible red light at 0.74 micrometres , and extending conventionally to 300 µm...
  
   lights from a newly-launched radio satellite trigger thousands of people on the beach to drown themselves.
• "The Delta at Sunset"
• "Deep End
  Deep End (short story)
  "Deep End" is a short story written in 1961 by British author J. G. Ballard. It first appeared in the May 1961 edition of New Worlds and then in the 1962 collection The Voices of Time and Other Stories followed by The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 1 in 2006...
  
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• "The Volcano Dances"
• "Billennium
  Billennium (short story)
  "Billenium" is a short story by J. G. Ballard first published in the January 1962 edition of Amazing Stories and in the Billennium collection. It later appeared in The Terminal Beach , and The Complete Short Stories of J. G...
  
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• "The Gioconda of the Twilight Noon"
• "The Lost Leonardo"

US Edition

• "End-Game"
• "The Subliminal Man"
• "The Last Word of Mr. Goddard"
• "The Time Bombs"
• "Now Wakes the Sea"
• "The Venus Hunters"
• "Minus One"
• "The Sudden Afternoon"
• "The Terminal Beach"

External links

• The Terminal Collection: JG Ballard First Editions