{"product_id":"9781529986068","title":"Venus Smiles (and Other Vermillion Sands Stories)","description":"Welcome to Vermilion Sands, the fully automated desert-resort ready to fulfil your most exotic whims.\n \n 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.\n \n Includes the stories: 'Cry Hope, Cry Fury!', 'The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral-D', 'Venus Smiles' and 'Studio 5, The Stars'\n \n BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45358898446451,"sku":"9781529986068","price":248.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/20282403482732.jpg?v=1789647468","url":"https:\/\/www.readerswarehouse.shop\/de\/products\/9781529986068","provider":"Readers Warehouse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}