The Best Short Stories
by J. G. Ballard | 
The Deadly Streets
by Harlan Ellison | 
Black Tickets
by Jayne Anne Phillips | 
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
by Franz Kafka | 
Use Me
by Elissa Schappell | 
Grey Area
by Will Self | 
Dirty Love
by Andre Dubus III | 
The Age of Grief
by Jane Smiley | 
On the Yankee Station
by William Boyd | 
The Quantity Theory of Insanity
by Will Self | 
The People on Privilege Hill
by Jane Gardam | 
Later, at the Bar
by Rebecca Barry | 
The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard
by J. G. Ballard | 
Bad Haircut
by Tom Perrotta |
Women with Men
by Richard Ford |
Song of the Silent Snow
by Hubert Selby Jr. | 
The Atrocity Exhibition
by J. G. Ballard | 
Chronopolis
by J. G. Ballard | 
Wool
by Hugh Howey | 
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
by James Tiptree Jr. |
A war-ravaged Beirut is the setting for the title story of this visionary collection by J. G. Ballard, a tale in which a young street fighter inadvertently discovers how to bring an end to the bloodshed only to find that his solution is all too effective as far as some supposedly neutral observers are concerned. Other stories in War Fever feature an assassination plot against an American astronaut, the leader of an authoritarian religious movement; a man who is destroyed by a car crash and resolves never to leave his apartment again; and the survivor of a toxic-waste ship wrecked on a deserted Caribbean island.