Weird? More! Tell me more! Ballard's first sortie into the deeply strange was The Atrocity Exhibition. It's a series of fragmentary stories loosely based around the mental breakdown of a variously named protagonist, whose ambition is to … obsession: 'I have watched copulating couples moving along darkened freeways at night, men and women on the verge of orgasm, their cars speeding in a series of inviting trajectories towards the flashing headlamps of the oncoming … …