Track 12

"Track 12"
Short story by J. G. Ballard
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Publication
Published inNew Worlds
Media typemagazine
Publication dateApril 1958 (1958-04)

"Track 12" is a short story by British author J. G. Ballard, it first appeared in the April 1958 edition of New Worlds (volume 24, number 70).[1] It then appeared in Penguin Science Fiction (edited by Brian Aldiss) in 1961,[2] Passport to Eternity, The Venus Hunters, The Overloaded Man, and later in The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 1.

As part of an intended anthology film the story was adapted by Harold Pinter. The adaptation was directed by Joseph Losey in 1967 and featured Dirk Bogarde and Julie Christie.[3]

An adaptation of the story was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2016.[4]

  1. ^ "JG Ballard Book Cover Scans: 1956-59". The Terminal Collection. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
  2. ^ "JG Ballard Book Cover Scans 1960-1961".
  3. ^ "Ballard's Cinema: Notes for a Retrospective – Track 12 (Joseph Losey 1967)". 12 June 2017.
  4. ^ "BBC Radio 3 - Between the Ears, Between Ballard's Ears".