"HAIL AND FAREWELL....Over the years, beginning with "The Cage of Sand" in 1962, J.G. Ballard has probed the psychological implications of man's exploration of outer space, and during this period the author has written a series of mesmerizing stories set within the forsaken Space Center at Cape Canaveral...."

"In his melding of science and surrealism to create a phantasmagorical milieu worthy of Max Ernst, Ballard is exploring the uneasy interface between technology and humanity, dramatizing the neuroses and paranoias of our age, presenting with hallucinogenic intensity the existential plight of modern man."

• commentary from the inside jacket of the Arkham House edition

Stories in this collection:

• "The Cage of Sand"
• "A Question of Re-entry"
• "The Dead Astronaut"
• "My Dream of Flying to Wake Island"
• "News from the Sun"
• "Memoies of the Space Age"
• "Myths of the Near Future"
• "The Man Who Walked on the Moon"