Chronopolis (short story)

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Chronopolis
Author	J.G. Ballard
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publication date	1960
Publication place	England

Chronopolis is a science fiction short story by British writer J.G. Ballard, first published in 1960. The story begins with a man in prison, Newman, and proceeds to examine his fascination with the concept of time in a world where clocks have been prohibited and are regulated by time police.^[1]

"Chronopolis" appears in an anthology edited by Andrew Goodwyn, Science Fiction Stories.^[2]

References

^ Boyd, Jason (7 February 2019). "20 Most Influential Science Fiction Short Stories of the 20th Century". FictionPhile.com. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
^ "Andrew Goodwyn - Science Fiction Stories".

v t e Works by J. G. Ballard
Novels	The Wind from Nowhere (1961) The Drowned World (1962) The Burning World (1964) The Crystal World (1966) The Atrocity Exhibition (1969) Crash (1973) Concrete Island (1974) High-Rise (1975) The Unlimited Dream Company (1979) Hello America (1981) Empire of the Sun (1984) The Day of Creation (1987) Running Wild (1988) The Kindness of Women (1991) Rushing to Paradise (1994) Cocaine Nights (1996) Super-Cannes (2000) Millennium People (2003) Kingdom Come (2006)
Short stories	"Mobile" (1957) "The Concentration City" (1957) "Track 12" (1958) "Zone of Terror" (1960) "The Sound-Sweep" (1960) "The Voices of Time" (1960) "Chronopolis" (1960) "Studio 5, The Stars" (1961) "Deep End" (1961) "Mr F. is Mr F." (1961) "Billennium" (1962) "Minus One" (1963) "The Recognition" (1967) " The Day of Forever" (1967) "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan" (1968) "Venus Smiles" (1971)
Short story collections	The Voices of Time and Other Stories (1962) Billennium (1962) Passport to Eternity (1963) The 4-Dimensional Nightmare (1963) The Terminal Beach (1964) The Impossible Man (1966) The Overloaded Man (1967) The Disaster Area (1967) The Day of Forever (1967) Vermilion Sands (1971) Chronopolis and Other Stories (1971) Low-Flying Aircraft and Other Stories (1976) The Best of J. G. Ballard (1977) The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard (1978) The Venus Hunters (1980) Myths of the Near Future (1982) The Voices of Time (1985) Memories of the Space Age (1988) War Fever (1990) The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 1 (2006) The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 2 (2006)
Essays, reviews and interviews	A User's Guide to the Millennium (1996) Extreme Metaphors (2012)
Autobiography	Miracles of Life (2008)
Film adaptations	When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970) Crash! (1971) Empire of the Sun (1987) Crash (1996) The Atrocity Exhibition (1998) Low-Flying Aircraft (2002) High-Rise (2015)