Vermilion Sands

"Pure, weird pleasure" * Los Angeles Times * "Ballard's best and most characteristic work is in his early novels and short stories" * New Statesman * "The most significant English novelist of the second half of the 20th century" -- Will Self * Prospect * "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 *