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 Stars'' BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days

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J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, China. After the attack on Pearl Harbour the family was interned in a civilian camp. They returned to England in 1946. In 1956 Ballard's first story was published in New Worlds. His first novel, The Drowned World, was published in 1962. Empire of the Sun, a novel based on his own experience in China, was published in 1984 and won the Guardian Fiction Prize, the James Tait Black Award and was filmed by Steven Spielberg. He is the author of many collections of short stories and novels, including Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes.