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• xi • Introduction: A Launchpad for Other Explorations • essay by Simon Sellars
• 1 • The New Science Fiction • (1967) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by George MacBeth
• 10 • Munich Round Up — Interview with J. G. Ballard • (1968) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by B. Wood (variant of Interview with J. G. Ballard) [as by uncredited]
• 14 • An Interview with J. G. Ballard • (1969) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Jannick Storm (variant of Interview with J. G. Ballard)
• 22 • Sci-Fi Seer • (1970) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by B. Lynn Barber [as by Lynn Barber]
• 36 • Speculative Illustrations: Eduardo Paolozzi in Conversation with J. G. Ballard • (1971) • interview of J. G. Ballard and Eduardo Paolozzi • interview by Frank Whitford
• 48 • J. G. Ballard • (1973) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Peter Linnett
• 56 • How to Face Doomsday without Really Trying • (1974) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Carol Orr
• 72 • Crash and Learn • (1975) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Robert Louit (variant of Some Words About Crash!)
• 78 • Interview with J. G. Ballard • (1975) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Philippe R. Hupp
• 81 • An Interview with J. G. Ballard • (1976) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by James Goddard and David Pringle
• 99 • 'It Would Be a Mistake to Write About the Future' • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by
  Jörg Krichbaum^?Joerg Krichbaum
  and Rein A. Zondergeld
• 106 • J. G. Ballard • (1978) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Jon Savage
• 121 • The Space Age is Over • (1979) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Christopher Evans
• 132 • An Interview with J. G. Ballard • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Werner Fuchs and
  Joachim Körber^?Joachim Koerber
  (trans. of Ein Interview mit J. G. Ballard 1985)
• 146 • Interview with JGB • (1984) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by V. Vale
• 170 • Ninety Questions from the Eyckman Personality Quotient • (1983) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Sam Scoggins
• 181 • The Art of Fiction • (1984) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Thomas Frick (interviewer)
• 199 • Against Entropy • (1984) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Peter Ronnov-Jessen
• 211 • The Past Tense of J. G. Ballard • (1985) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Tony Cartano and Maxim Jakubowski
• 224 • Future Now • (1986) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Solveig Nordlund
• 231 • A Conversation with J. G. Ballard • (1988) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by James Verniere
• 241 • Myths of the Near Future • (1988) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Rosetta Brooks
• 248 • An Interview with J. G. Ballard • (1991) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Jeremy Lewis
• 263 • The Visitor • (1992) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Phil Halper and Lard Lyer
• 274 • Memento: J. G. Ballard • (1993) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Joan Blakewell
• 283 • Don't Crash • (1994) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Lukas Barr
• 291 • Empire of the Surreal • (1995) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Nicholas Zurbrugg
• 299 • Conversations: J. G. Ballard • (1995) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Will Self
• 320 • 'Kafka with unlimited Chicken Kiev': J. G. Ballard on Cocaine Nights • (1996) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Damien Love
• 328 • Crash Talk: J. G. Ballard in Conversation with David Cronenberg • (1996) • interview of J. G. Ballard and David Cronenberg • interview by Chris Rodley
• 339 • J. G. Ballard's Wild Ride • (1997) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Mark Dery
• 349 • J. G. Ballard on William Burroughs' Naked Truth • (1997) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Richard Kadrey and Suzanne Stefanac
• 354 • Russia on My Mind • (1998) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Zinovy Zinik
• 364 • J. G. Ballard's Cinema in the Slipstream of Discontent • (1999) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Iain Sinclair
• 375 • 'Technology is always a facilitator': J. G. Ballard on Super-Cannes • (2000) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by John Gray
• 383 • 'Nothing Is Real, Everything Is Fake' • (2003) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist
• 397 • 'All we've got left is our own psychopathology' • (2003) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Chris Hall
• 407 • Reading the Signs • (2004) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Jeannette Baxter
• 415 • 'Dangerous bends ahead. Slow down': J. G. Ballard on Kingdom Come • (2006) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Toby Litt
• 431 • 'Rattling other people's cages' • (2006) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Simon Sellars
• 443 • An Exhibition of Atrocities: J. G. Ballard on Mondo Films • (2006) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Mark Goodall
• 447 • 'Not entirely a journey without maps': J. G. Ballard on the Atrocity Archives • (2006) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Jonathan Weiss
• 463 • Historian of the Future • (2007) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by Hari Kunzru
• 473 • 'Up a kind of sociological Amazon': J. G. Ballard on Miracles of Life • (2008) • interview of J. G. Ballard • interview by James Naughtie
• 485 • Afterword: Script-Writing the Future • essay by Dan O'Hara