The Complete Short Stories: Volume 2
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Adam Thirlwell. The Complete Short Stories: Volume 2
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Author’s Note
Introduction BY ADAM THIRLWELL. 1
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PRISONER OF THE CORAL DEEP
THE LOST LEONARDO
THE TERMINAL BEACH
The Blocks
The Synthetic Landscape
The Pre-Third
Third Beach
The Corpses
The Terminal Bunker
The Lakes and the Spectres
The Blocks (II)
The Blocks (III)
The Submarine Pens
Traven: In Parenthesis
Traven lost within the Blocks
A Belated Rescue
The Naval Party
The Catechism of Goodbye
Total Noon: Eniwetok
‘Goodbye, Traven.’
The Crevice
The Marooned Japanese
The Fly
The Terminal Beach
THE ILLUMINATED MAN
THE DELTA AT SUNSET
THE DROWNED GIANT
THE GIOCONDA OF THE TWILIGHT NOON
THE VOLCANO DANCES
THE BEACH MURDERS. Introduction
Auto-erotic
Brassière
Cordobés
Drinamyl
Embonpoint
Fata Morgana
Guardia Civil
Heterodyne
Iguana
Jasmine
Kleenex
Limbo
Mercedes
Neapolitan
Oceanid
Poseidon
Quietus
Remington
Smith & Wesson
Tranquillizer
UV Lamp
Vivaldi
Wave Speed
XF-169
Yardley
Zeitgeist
THE DAY OF FOREVER
THE IMPOSSIBLE MAN
STORM-BIRD, STORM-DREAMER
TOMORROW IS A MILLION YEARS
THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY CONSIDERED AS A DOWNHILL MOTOR RACE
CRY HOPE, CRY FURY!
THE RECOGNITION
THE CLOUD-SCULPTORS OF CORAL D
WHY I WANT TO FUCK RONALD REAGAN. During these assassination fantasies
Tallis became increasingly obsessed
with the pudenda of the Presidential contender
mediated to him by a thousand television screens
The motion picture studies of Ronald Reagan
created a scenario of the conceptual orgasm,
a unique ontology of violence and disaster
THE DEAD ASTRONAUT
THE COMSAT ANGELS
THE KILLING GROUND
A PLACE AND A TIME TO DIE
SAY GOODBYE TO THE WIND
THE GREATEST TELEVISION SHOW ON EARTH
MY DREAM OF FLYING TO WAKE ISLAND
THE AIR DISASTER
LOW-FLYING AIRCRAFT
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF GOD
NOTES TOWARDS A MENTAL BREAKDOWN
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THE 60 MINUTE ZOOM. 2.15 P.M. Lloret de Mar, Apartamentos California
2.19 P.M
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3.05 P.M
3.15 P.M
THE SMILE
THE DEAD TIME
THE INDEX
THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
THEATRE OF WAR. Author’s preface
Part One. LONDON UNDER SIEGE. STREET BATTLE
WORLD IN ACTION TITLES
Commentator
STREET BATTLE
CUT TO NIGHT-TIME SOHO
Commentator
1st US soldier (reclining in bar)
Commentator
2nd US soldier
Commentator
3rd US soldier
2nd US soldier
Commentator
NEWSREEL
Commentator
COMMENTATOR IN GROSVENOR SQUARE
Commentator
INTERVIEW WITH BRITISH SUPREME COMMANDER
British Commander
Commentator
British Commander
COMMENTATOR BACK IN GROSVENOR SQUARE
Commentator
EXPLOSION BURSTS ACROSS SQUARE
Commentator
CROWD FORMING A ROUGH CIRCLE AROUND A JEEP
Radio Announcer
GI REACHES OVER AND SWITCHES OFF RADIO. Commentator
CANADIAN JOURNALIST IN HOTEL BAR. Canadian Journalist
SHOTS OF YOUNG PEOPLE AT CAMP SITE
Commentator
Canadian journalist
Commentator
INTERVIEW WITH BRITISH PRIME MINISTER
Commentator
Prime Minister
Commentator
Prime Minister
Commentator
Prime Minister
GENERAL VIEWS OF PEOPLE HANGING AROUND ENTRANCES TO AMERICAN BASES. Commentator
GENERAL PICTURE OF SMALL TOWN IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Commentator
TANK APPEARS, FOLLOWED BY BRITISH AND AMERICAN SOLDIERS. Commentator
CAPTAIN ROBINSON BRIEFING HIS UNIT IN THE VILLAGE HALL
Captain Robinson
Part Two. PACIFICATION PROBE. Commentator
NEWSREEL OF LIBERATION FRONT AREAS
Swedish voice-over
COOKHAM
AFN radio announcer
Commentator
CAPTAIN ROBINSON CHECKING HIS MEN’S EQUIPMENT. Commentator
SERGEANT PALEY CHECKING TANK TREADS. Commentator
TANK ENGINE STARTS UP
Commentator
MAJOR CLEAVER
Commentator
THE CONVOY MOVES OFF
Captain Robinson
Sergeant Paley
Captain Robinson
Commentator
Captain Robinson
RADIO OPERATOR PASSES MESSAGE TO CAPTAIN ROBINSON
Commentator
Sergeant Paley
Commentator
Sergeant Paley
Commentator
Sergeant Paley
Commentator
Sergeant Paley
Commentator
Sergeant Paley
Major Cleaver
Commentator
Major Cleaver
Commentator
Major Cleaver
THE COLUMN MOVES ON
Commentator
THE AMERICANS AND BRITISH ARE WATCHING QUIETLY
THE VILLAGE IS COMING TO LIFE AFTER THE RAIN-STORM
THE FIRST FARMERS WALK OUT ACROSS THE FIELD
CAPTAIN ROBINSON SIGNALS
EVERYTHING IS QUIET
2nd Commentator
VILLAGERS SQUATTING IN FIELD
2nd Commentator
Captain Robinson
EXPLOSIONS RIP APART VILLAGE BUILDINGS
Major Cleaver
HAVING A WONDERFUL TIME. 3 July 1985. Hotel Imperial, Playa Inglaterra, Las Palmas
10 July. Hotel Imperial
17 July. Hotel Imperial
18 July. Hotel Imperial
25 July. Hotel Imperial
15 August. Hotel Imperial
5 September. Hotel Imperial
6 October. Hotel Imperial
12 November. Hotel Imperial
10 January 1986. Hotel Imperial
3 July 1986. Hotel Imperial
ONE AFTERNOON AT UTAH BEACH
ZODIAC 2000. Author’s note
The Sign of the Polaroid
The Sign of the Computer
The Sign of the Clones
The Sign of the IUD
The Sign of the Radar Bowl
The Sign of the Stripper
The Sign of the Psychiatrist
The Sign of the Psychopath
The Sign of the Hypodermic
The Sign of the Vibrator
The Sign of the Cruise Missile
The Sign of the Astronaut
MOTEL ARCHITECTURE
A HOST OF FURIOUS FANCIES
NEWS FROM THE SUN
MEMORIES OF THE SPACE AGE. ONE
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FOUR
FIVE
SIX
SEVEN
EIGHT
NINE
MYTHS OF THE NEAR FUTURE
REPORT ON AN UNIDENTIFIED SPACE STATION. Survey Report 1
Survey Report 2
Survey Report 3
Survey Report 4
Survey Report 5
Survey Report 6
Survey Report 7
Survey Report 8
Survey Report 9
THE OBJECT OF THE ATTACK
ANSWERS TO A QUESTIONNAIRE
THE MAN WHO WALKED ON THE MOON
THE SECRET HISTORY OF WORLD WAR 3
LOVE IN A COLDER CLIMATE
THE ENORMOUS SPACE
THE LARGEST THEME PARK IN THE WORLD
WAR FEVER
DREAM CARGOES
A GUIDE TO VIRTUAL DEATH
THE MESSAGE FROM MARS
REPORT FROM AN OBSCURE PLANET
INTERVIEW. J. G. BALLARD TALKS TO TRAVIS ELBOROUGH
About the Author
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
About the Publisher
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‘He’s just as we expected, Charles. Tall and powerfully built, with a kind of statuesque grace, the sort of man who moves easily among the rich and nobility. Leonardo and Holbein caught him exactly, that strange haunted intensity about his eyes, the wind of deserts and great ravines.’
‘When did you first see him?’
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