Vermilion Sands

"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