1. In popular music

Ballard has had a notable influence on popular music, where his work has been used as a basis for lyrical imagery, particularly amongst British post-punk and industrial groups. Examples include albums such as Metamatic by John Foxx, various songs byJoy Division(most famously "The Atrocity Exhibition" fromCloser), High Rise by Hawkwind, "Miss The Girl" byThe Creatures(based onCrash), the song "Down in the Park" byGary Numanand "Warm Leatherette" byThe Normal. SongwritersTrevor HornandBruce Woolleycredit Ballard's story "The Sound-Sweep" with inspiringThe Buggles' hit, "Video Killed the Radio Star", and Buggles' second album included a song entitled "Vermillion Sands." The 1978 post-punk bandComsat Angelstook their name from one of Ballard's short stories. The bandManic Street Preachersinclude a sample from an interview with Ballard in their song Mausoleum. The London-based 'nu-rave' band, The Klaxons, named their debut album 'Myths Of The Near Future' after one of Ballard’s collections of short stories. The band The Sound Of Animals Fighting named the song The Heraldic Beak Of The Manufacturers Medallion after the book Crash.

5. Works

   1. Novels

►The Wind From Nowhere (1961)

►The Drowned World (1962)

►The Burning World (1964; also The Drought, 1965)

►The Crystal World (1966)

►Crash (1973)

►Concrete Island (1974)

►The Wind From Nowhere (1961)

► 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)

► Kingdome Come (2006)

2. 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 Venus Hunters (1967)

►The Overloaded Man (1967)

►The Disaster Area (1967)

►The Day of Forever (1967)

►The Atrocity Exhibition (1969, also Love and Napalm: Export USA, 1972)

►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)

►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 (2001)

►The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 1(2006)

►The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 2(2006)

►The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard (2009)

3. Other

►A User's Guide to the Millennium: Essays and Reviews (1996)

►Miracles of Life (Autobiography; 2008)