Millennium People. Iain Sinclair

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      Millennium People

      J.G. Ballard

      

Copyright

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      First published in Great Britain by Flamingo in 2003

      Copyright © J. G. Ballard 2003

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      Source ISBN:9780006551614

      Ebook Edition © APRIL 2010 ISBN: 9780007371907

      Version: 2017-01-04

      Contents

       Title Page

Copyright

1 The Rebellion at Chelsea Marina

2 The Heathrow Bomb

3 ‘Why Me?’

4 The Last Rival

5 Confrontation at Olympia

6 Rescue

7 Odd Man Out

8 The Sleepwalkers

9 The Upholstered Apocalypse

       10 Appointment with a Revolution

       11 The Heart of Darkness

       12 The Video Store

       13 A Neuroscientist Looks at God

       14 From Guildford to Terminal 2

       15 The Depot of Dreams

       16 The Children’s Sanctuary

       17 Absolute Zero

       18 Black Millennium

       19 The Siege of Broadcasting House

       20 White Space

       21 The Kindness of Light

       22 A Visit to the Bunker

       23 The Last Stranger

       24 The Defence of Grosvenor Place

       25 A Celebrity Murder

       26 A Wife’s Concern

       27 The Bonfire of the Volvos

       28 Vital Clues

       29 The Long-term Car Park

       30 Amateurs and Revolutions

       31 The Sentimental Terrorist

       32 A Decline in Property Values

       33 Giving Himself to the Sun

       34 A Task Completed

       35 A Sun Without Shadows

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       1 The Rebellion at Chelsea Marina

      A SMALL REVOLUTION was taking place, so modest and well behaved that almost no one had noticed. Like a visitor to an abandoned film set, I stood by the entrance to Chelsea Marina and listened to the morning traffic in the King’s Road, a reassuring medley of car stereos and ambulance sirens. Beyond the gatehouse were the streets of the deserted estate, an apocalyptic vision deprived of its soundtrack.