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this was the first short story collection I read by Ballard,

I never quite know how to describe him but 'weird' and 'wonderful' are always in the list of adjectives,./collated Good

J, G. Ballards second short story collection, Voices of Time and Other Stories, is only ever so slightly less brilliant than his first, Billenium, The stories are often linked thematically: exploring postapocalyptical landscapes, rituals in the face of death, urban alienation, mental fragmentation, Scientists test
Full review: sitelink com Not a collection to read while experiencing insomnia, Most of the stories have to do with trying to maintain, or find, sanity, or identity, while experiencing time passing differently, or sleep patterns being disrupted.
. . or all of the above, I finished it in one night because I couldn't sleep,

Now, you might think that I rated it low because it had a negative impact on me personally, But I rated it low because it's dated, mushy, and written in a way that comes off as a lame attempt at being literary amp brilliant.
One could argue there was "What If" but there was certainly, imo, no "Sense of Wonder, " Ballard me está fascinando. Esos paisajes ambientados en futuros desolados, narrados de una manera tan clara y poética, dejan huella,

Estos son los ocho relatos incluidos en Las voces del tiempo, en la edición de Minotauro de, Existe otra edición decon el mismo título, en la que solo coinciden tres cuentos,

Las voces del tiempo,
El barrendero de sonidos,
El hombre sobrecargado.
Trece a Centauro.
El jardín del tiempo,
La jaula de arena,
Las torres de observación,
Cronópolis.

Todos los relatos son magníficos, pero por encima de los demás, destacaría El jardín del tiempo, mi favorito, y Las voces del tiempo.

I'm not much of Sci Fi fan, but I am glad this was recommended by a friend, Ballard had my attention from page one, There wasn't too much of the over used science vocabulary about space ships and all that turns me away from other SF works, I love the suspense stories especially, Manholeis an homage to Chekhov's "The Bet" I loved these short stories so vivid and the imagery haunts me occasionally still, The "Garden of Time" story in particular filled me with irreconcilable pathos, I wonder why I have not gotten around to reading more Ballard Coming across a drained swimming pool in the title story of this early collection I wondered whether it might be the first of many, many appearances of this image throughout the authors work.
A little light Googling told me that not only is this the case, but that inBallard pointed to the story as a kind of Rosetta Stone for his unique worldview: “If I were asked to pick one piece of fiction to represent my entire output ofnovels andshort stories it would be The Voices of Time, not because it is the best I leave that for the reader to judge, but because it contains almost all the themes of my writing the sense of isolation within the infinite time and space of the universe, the biological fantasies and the attempt to read the complex codes represented by drained swimming pools and abandoned airfields, and above all the determination to break out of a deepening psychological entropy and make some kind of private peace with the unseen powers of the universe.
” It is indeed a powerful, disturbing and enigmatic work, The universe is winding down, People's lives are becoming consumed by sleep, Animals are speciating into new and bizarre forms, An inner logic is at work which determinedly remains just beyond the readers understanding,

The rest of the collection is a mixed bag, Thirteen to Centaurus is closer in style to the science fiction found in the periodicals of the time, a predictable story of heuristic education in space, where the characters exist mainly to explain the plot to one another.
The Watch Towers and Chronopolis might have been lifted from The Twilight Zone the latter story concerns a world where timepieces have been outlawed, Only a few look forward to the deeply weird and intellectual novels that were to come, The Cage of Sand in particular gives fans of the fullydeveloped Ballard a bit of what they might fancy: surreal landscapes, strange compulsions, fatalism and dead astronauts.

It's a tribute to both the nature and scope of Ballard's imagination that thiscollection of stories has scarcely aged at all, The technological barely concerns him, only intruding into his narratives as a part of the fabric of life, Where it is central, as with the capture of embedded sound in 'The Sound Sweep', it's often so bizarre as to be completely original, But what really seems to motivate Ballard is mood, Again and again he returns to the same haunting images, like a vulture circling the carcass of his unconscious, Abandoned cityscapes recur constantly, a recapitulation perhaps of his boyhood experiences of an evacuated Shanghai, It makes for an eerie body of fiction that I find irresistible,

The most

notable stories in this collection are 'The Overloaded Man', a frightening study of the nature of perception, and 'The Garden of Time', a tale of decline and fall that is simple and momentous enough to achieve mythic status.
Every so often I love to sit down and enjoy a collection of J, G. Ballard short stories, even if I have read them all before, Susan Sontag, Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, William Burroughs, Robert Nye and Angela Carter are among the host of admirers of J, G. Ballard's fiction. His extraordinary inventiveness and the unfailing grace and energy of his writing are triumphantly displayed in this classic collection of stories, which includes 'The Overloaded Man', 'Chronopolis' and 'The Garden of Time', which Anthony Burgess called 'one of the most beautiful stories of the world canon of short fiction'.


These haunting tales of pity and terror and longing, firmly grounded in psychological realism and tightly plotted, transcend classification as fantasy or science fiction they are literature of the highest order.
Jacket description A rather unequal collection of stories involving time travel, The one that made the best impression was about an apparatus called a 'Sonovac', In the near future, people only listen to ultra and subsonic music, Normal sound residues are cleaned away out of buildings, like dust, A professional sound cleaner wants to relaunch the career of an opera diva, who has sunk into oblivion after the disappearance of audible music, She hardly deserves it, beacause she has a horrible character that resembles the actress from Sunset Boulevard, In the end, the young man uses his abilities to pay her back for her arrogance, read for my pulp fiction class The story in this small, but magnificent novella, smell so weird, Themes such as personal isolation, biological fantasies for time, space and cosmos are blended into Dr, Power's mind.
As the end of the mankind, or maybe the cosmos, is about to come, he physically and mentally decay in its own end, More Ballard, more coincidences of name and spaces what is his obsession with desolate landscapes ands cars This is a bewildering experiment in running out of time, both for the protagonist and the reader.
I wonder if the voices in time are the readers yelling, 'No! What happened I don't understand!'
The Ballard fascination begins to make sense.
. . kind of. Another magnificent collection of perceptionaltering weirdness by one of the finest author's the United Kingdom has ever produced, 'The Voices of Time' not only reaches the same vertiginous heights of excellence that his 'Terminal Beach' achieved, but, somehow their reach is somewhat higher not only are these finely wrought tales hugely engrossing, they are also profoundly inspirational truly, J.
G Ballard's tremendous talent was a greatly rewarding gift for all lovers of superlative thinking! Superb collection of early Ballard stories, the title story alone perhaps making a claim for the most 'Ballardian' of any short story the man wrote written almost at the start of his career.
The lure of drained swimming pools, dead astronauts and strange desertscapes was there right from the getgo, The stories range from surreal and poetic 'The Garden of Time' to tightly plotted and concise 'Chronopolis', Great Ballard starter pack. theres some really brilliant stuff in here very few of the stories have aged at all, and ballard rarely hangs a story on speculative or dated science.
wish hed write a woman once in a while though, En mi afán completista, tenía que leer el resto de cuentos que no aparecían en la edición de Minotauro de, Ambas ediciones solo tienen tres relatos en común: Las voces del tiempo increíble relato, de lo mejor que he leído últimamente, El barrendero de sonidos que gran idea para un relato y El hombre sobrecargado.


Estos son los cuatro cuentos diferentes para esta edición:

Zona de terror, Larsen está en una zona de retiro, en pleno desierto, en una urbanización donde solo están él y un psicólogo, La idea es la de la empresa de Larsen, para darle un respiro, Pero de repente empieza a tener alucinaciones,
Nicho. Donde se experimenta con tres pacientes la necesidad de dormir,
Zona de espera. El protagonista se traslada a Murak, en otro planeta, para trabajar en el observatorio, Va a estar dos años, sustituyendo a su predecesor, que en principio iba estar el mismo tiempo, y ya lleva quince años allí, Por qué, se preguntará.
Ocaso. Ya apenas queda gente en la Tierra, La explotación del planeta ha eliminado, literalmente, incluso los océanos,

Nuevamente, he quedado fascinado por la imaginación y la puesta en escena de estas historias, además de por la forma de escribir de Ballard.


After many novels I've finally got around to trying some of Ballard's short fiction, There are many writers that juggle novels and short stories, but there are few who can pull off being great at both, This collection contains eight stories The Voices of Time, The SoundSweep, The Overloaded man, Thirteen to Centaurus, The Garden of Time, The Cage of Sand, The Watch Towers amp Chronopolis and most of them were really impressive on the eye.
Ballard was a writer that I found to be a difficult nut to crack at first, but over the years he has gone on to become my favourite British writer.
I've never really been a big fan of scifi in general, but Ballard is one exception, and this collection left me wanting more, His ingenuity was a class above, .