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Billennium (short story)
"Billenium" (or ''Billennium'') is a short story by J. G. Ballard first published in the January 1962 edition of ''Amazing Stories'' (Volume 36, Number 1)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=JG Ballard Book Cover Scans: 1962-63 )〕 and in the ''Billennium'' collection. It later appeared in ''The Terminal Beach'' (1964), and ''The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 1'' (2006).
With a dystopian ambience, "Billennium" explores themes similar to Ballard's earlier story "The Concentration City", of space shortages and over-crowding.
==Setting==
The story is set in the future (possibly c. 21st century - see billennium) where the world is becoming increasingly overpopulated, with a population of around 20 billion. Most of its inhabitants live in crowded central cities in order to preserve as much outside land as possible for farming, and as a result the world does not have a food problem, nor wars - since all governments devote themselves to addressing the problems caused by overpopulation. In the city inhabited by the two protagonists, John Ward and Henry Rossiter, there is a mass shortage of space and the people live in small cellular rooms where they are charged by ceiling space, the legal maximum decreasing to per person. The city streets are enormously crowded, resulting in occasional pedestrian congestions that last days at a time. Most old and historical buildings have been taken down to make way for new battery homes or divided into hundreds of small cubicles.
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