Vermilion Sands

"Vermilion Sands is J.G. Ballard's fantasy playground of the future, a latterday Palm Springs. It is populated by forgotten movie queens and dilettantes dreaming up malicious games to relieve the boredom of a technocratic society. Only in such a phantasmagorical setting could poets be ravished by the temperamental Aurora Day. Only here could plants sing arias and clouds be fashioned according to the aesthetic whims of drugged beachcombers. But life in this strange colony is also fraught with danger, the danger of ideas that turn into perverse pleasures."--Page [4] of cover.