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Viriconium: Pastel City , Storm of Wings , In Viriconium , Viriconium Nights
M. John Harrison
Part of the Fantasy Masterworks Series
RRP £9.99
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Collects the three novels and all the short stories British author Harrison wrote about the twilight world of a mysterious far future city. With echoes of Victorian fantasy, Beardsley and Mervyn Peake, this is an imagined world both rich and allusive, cruel and colourful and full of action. Stylish and challenging and proof that fantasy doesn’t end with Tolkien.
Synopsis
Viriconium: Pastel City , Storm of Wings , In Viriconium , Viriconium Nights by M. John Harrison
In Viriconium, the young men whistle to one another all night long as they go about their deadly games. If you wake suddenly, you might hear footsteps running, or an urgent sigh. After a minute or two, the whistles move away in the direction of the Tinmarket or the Margarethestrasse. The next day, some lordling is discovered in the gutter with his throat cut. Who can tell fantasy from reality, magic from illusion, hero from villain, man from monster ...in Viriconium? Published here for the first time in one volume, and in the author's preferred order, are all the Viriconium stories, originally published in four books: The Pastel City, A Storm of Wings, In Viriconium and Viriconium Nights.
Reviews
The world that Harrison depicts is intricate and authentic, peopled with a multitude of strange yet lifelike characters--a combination which serves to make his richly imagined empire of Viriconium feel very real indeed.... This omnibus collection from the author of Lightis canon-reading for those who wish to know the genre's roots, as well as the heights, to which it can aspire. -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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Publication date
13th July 2000Author
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Gollancz an imprint of Orion Publishing CoFormat
Paperback576 pages
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FantasyScience fictionAnthologies (non-poetry)ISBN
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