The Day of Forever (short story)

"The Day of Forever" is a 1966 science fiction short story by J.G. Ballard, which was published in the anthology of the same title.

Setting

The events of the story unfold on Earth at some undisclosed era in the future when the planet has ceased to rotate, hence the opening line, "At Columbine Sept Heures it was always dusk."^[1]

Cultural references

Grant Morrison has stated that the hero of this story was the major inspiration for the character of Gideon Stargrave.^[2]

References

↑ J.G. Ballard, "The Day of Forever." In The Day of Forever (London, Panther, 1967)
↑ Grant Morrison Interview

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) "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 Four-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 (2001) Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude (2002) High-Rise (2015)

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