Vermilion Sands
A Short Stories, Dystopia, Fiction book. If I could spend a weekend in any science fiction world it...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 208 pages
- ISBN: 9781784870997 / 1784870994
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I wish I lived in Vermilion Sands. Ballard's future resort is all about malfunctioning machinery, beautiful psychotic muses, and futuro-baroque arts, a place full of has-been movie starlets and artists. Mostly you'd hang out on a balcony and drink beer, you'd probably be suffering from beach lethargy before being briefly disturbed by... If I could spend a weekend in any science fiction world it would be Vermilion Sands. I would not even have to think twice about it. These linked short stories are like jewels that are perfectly arranged to look like they were scattered at random. They are like "Last Year at Marienbad" meets Jack Vance's Dying Earth. Despite having been composed over 15 years with four or five novels and possibly hundreds of other stories in between, the story cycle that makes up this volume are surprisingly, exquisitely cohesive. Post-war decadence is embodied here in the "recess" a kind of limbo period where unproductive artists dry up in the sun of a kind of...
