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J G Ballard (Author)
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Publication Date: 4 Oct 2001

Vermilion Sands is a fully automated desert-resort designed to fulfil the most exotic whims of the idle rich, but now languishes in uneasy decay, populated only by forgotten movie queens, solitary impresarios and the remittance men of the artistic and literary world.

It is a lair for beachcombers, hangers-on and malignant obsessions - a place where sensitive pigments paint portraits of their mistresses in a grotesque parody of art; where prima donna plants are programmed to sing operatic arias; where dial-a-poem computers have replaced poets; where psychosensitive houses are driven to murder by their owners' neuroses; and where love and lust, in the hands of jewel-eyed Jezebels, pall before the stronger pull of evil.

(19981002)

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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage Classics; New Ed edition (4 Oct 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0099273586
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099273585
  • Product Dimensions: 13 x 1.3 x 19.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 18,363 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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A writer of enormous inventive powers, Ballard has, like Calvino, a remarkable gift for filing the empty, deprived spaces of modern life with invisible cities and the wonder worlds of the imagination (Malcolm Bradbury New York Times Book Review )

Ballard is a magician and a literary saboteur...He is one of the few genuine surrealists this country has produced, the possessor of a terrifying and exhilarating imagination - and a national treasure (Guardian )

One of the brightest stars in post-war fiction (Kingsley Amis )

One of the grand magicians of modern fiction (Brian Aldiss )

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'Ballard is amongst our finest writers of fiction' Anthony Burgess (19981002)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Luminous tales of a glittering, dry and decadent future 2 Oct 2000
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This book collects Ballard's stories about Vermillion Sands, an artists' colony maroooned in a languid future of unlimited leisure, high technology, and mysterious, jewel-eyed women. Half-sentient buildings drift in and out of the encroaching desert, art projects threaten the nature of reality, and the inhabitants pursue their obscure enthusiasms, all against the numbing blue skies and the desolate sands. In common with many of Ballard's books, it's emotionally cold, but full of sharply brilliant ideas and vivid, over-saturated images. The characters drift throught their plots as if stunned, chasing art projects, ideas and each other with the bewildered air of actors thrust suddenly into a world without motives. Here the desolate air of coming disaster which characterises Ballard's early work has made a place where people can live without regrets or consequences, where any idea can be pursued, or any fate risked, because nothing really matters. Somewhere the world is grinding to a halt, but not here, in this remote world of privileged eccentrics. Lonely, strange and startlingly beautiful, the book has the warm laziness of a luxurious sea-side town, caught endlessly in late summer, between the tourists leaving and the autumn storms.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A remarkably polished set of nightmares... 26 April 2005
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I love this book - its twisty darkness, wide-ranging ideas, and bizarre, campy satire. In fact, this is my favorite Ballard - for all his fame and critical success, his books seem to me often too predictable, too idea-driven. In this one he was willing to have fun, and the result is as though Fellini made a horror movie.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The most wonderful and memorable of his collections 26 Nov 2001
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This was the first J G Ballard work I ever read, some fifteen years ago now. On the strength of it I have read perhaps twenty of his other works; novels, biography and short fiction but for me this remains the most beautiful, mysterious and memorable of them all. Buy it, read it!
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