The Concentration City

Frontispiece for the story's first publication in New Worlds

"The Concentration City" is a dystopian short story by British author J. G. Ballard, first published (as "Build-Up") in the January 1957 issue of New Worlds.

It has been reprinted in the Ballard collections Billennium, Chronopolis, and The Disaster Area,[1] and appears in volume one of The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard.[2]

  1. ^ "JG Ballard Book Cover Scans: 1956-59". The Terminal Collection. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
  2. ^ The complete stories of J.G. Ballard. W.W. Norton & Co. 2009. ISBN 9780393072624.