Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. "Zone of Terror" is a short story by British author J. G. Ballard, first appearing in the March 1960 edition of New Worlds (Volume 31, Number 92) and then in the 1962 collection The Voices of Time and Other Stories. It later appeared in The Disaster Area (1967) and The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 1 (2006).The two characters of the story are Larsen and Bayliss, employees of an unnamed electronics company. The story takes place in a small desert complex, a ''re-creational'' centre for senior executives. It is revealed that Larsen worked as a programmer for the company''s Advanced Design Division, simulating a complex electrical replica of the central nervous system when, overworked and on the verge of a nervous breakdown, Bayliss, a psychologist, pulled him from the project and sent him to stay in a chalet in the complex for a few days'' recuperation, where Bayliss also lives.