The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 2

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The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 2 is a short story collection by J. G. Ballard, published in 2006.

The collection is the second part of J. G. Ballard's complete short story collection, following The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 1 .

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This second installment of the two-part series contains the following stories:

Comparing to the anthology of the same title in 2001, The Ultimate City was missing.

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