The Venus Hunters is a collection of short stories by British writer J. G. Ballard, first published in 1980 as a paperback by Panther Books, and reprinted as a hardback in 1986 by Victor Gollancz. It includes:

• "Now: Zero"
• "The Time-Tombs"
• "Track 12"
• "Passport to Eternity"
• "Escapement"
• "Time of Passage"
• "The Venus Hunters"
• "The Killing Ground"
• "One Afternoon at Utah Beach"
• "The 60 Minute Zoom"

The first seven stories are reprinted from The Overloaded Man; the other three are more recent.^[1]