Venus Smiles (and Other Vermillion Sands Stories) (Brief Encounters)

Welcome to Vermilion Sands, the fully automated desert-resort ready to fulfil your most exotic whims. 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 Vermillion Sands art-infused universe, this short collection is a passport into the genius of science fiction's most visionary pioneer. Includes the stories: Cry Hope, Cry Fury!, The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral-D, Venus Smiles and Studio 5, The StarsBRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days