 Budrys, however, mocked his fiction as "call[ing] for people who don't think ... to be the protagonist of a J. G. Ballard novel, or anything more than a very minor character therein, you must have cut yourself off from the entire body of scientific education".In addition to his novels, Ballard made extensive use of the short story form.Many of his earliest published works in the 1950s and 1960s were short stories, including influential works like "Chronopolis."