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Language English Media type Print (Hardback) Originally published 1967 Publisher Panther Books | 3.8/5 Goodreads Publication date 1967 Pages 158 pp Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Fantasy, Short story, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction J. G. Ballard books The Impossible Man, The Disaster Area, The 4‑Dimensional Nightmare, Passport to Eternity, The Day of Forever |
The Overloaded Man is a collection of stories by J. G. Ballard, first published in 1967 as a paperback by Panther Books.
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The overloaded man
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The first seven stories are science fiction and fantasy originally published in the 1950s and early 1960s.
"The Venus Hunters" is concerned less with aliens than with our need to believe in them. "The Coming of the Unconscious" is an essay on surrealism in art. The protagonist of "The Overloaded Man" reduces his perception of the world to abstract forms and colours: this has been called "the death of affect".
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