About the book: 2018 / In 1975–1977, Ballard creates a conventional “trilogy of urban disasters”, in which he demonstrates what a thin line separates the modern, civilized, confident in a person from falling into the abyss of hungry instincts, splitting the personality into primitive components. “Car accident.” A shocking story about fans of extreme sex - a metaphor for the painful desire for pleasure, for impersonal mechanized freedom. "Concrete Island." Robinsonade of the 20th century, the drama of a man trapped, alone in the middle of a city of millions, amid the indifference of those passing by, in a place inhabited by the ghosts of the past... “High-Rise”. Thousands of apartments in an ultra-modern building, inhabited by successful professionals, the cream of the middle class, are gradually turning into clan shelters of embittered savages.