<p><b>Welcome to Vermilion Sands, the fully automated desert-resort ready to fulfil your most exotic whims.</b><br /><br />Out over the towering Coral D, sky artists paint the sky with clouds. A musical statue is broken down, but finds new life in unwanted places. A mysterious new resident introduces a new way of making poetry - aided by machine. Drawing together some of the most mesmerising and mind-blowing stories from J.G. Ballard's <i>Vermillion Sands</i> art-infused universe, this short collection is a passport into the genius of science fiction's most visionary pioneer.<br /><br />Includes the stories: <i>Cry Hope, Cry Fury!</i>, <i>The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral-D</i>, <i>Venus Smiles</i> and <i>Studio 5, The Stars</i><br /><br /><b>BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days</b></p>