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Available to American readers for the first time, this landmark collection gathers four groundbreaking fantasy classics from the acclaimed author of Light . Set in the imagined city of Viriconium, here are the masterworks that revolutionized a genre and enthralled a generation of readers: ... read more
Books in This Collection
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The Pastel City
by M. John Harrison (Author) -
A Storm of Wings
by M.John Harrison -
In Viriconium
aka The Floating Gods
by M. John Harrison (Author)"First Timescape Books Printing, February, 1983 / Another Original publication of Timescape Books" Stated on copyright page. Full number line starting with "1" Clean copy with a tight spine, crisp pages, No markings, No stamps, slight tanning...
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Viriconium Nights
by M. John Harrison (Author)
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Characters/People edit
- Galen Hornwrack: Add a description of this character.
- Master Ashlyme
- Vera Ghillera
- Birkin Grif
- Mammy Vooley
- Egon Rhys
- Ito
- Kahn
- Alves
- Duirinish
- Mr. Ambrayses
- Emmet Buffo
- Glyn
- Methven
- Cellur
- Waterbeck
- Cromis
- Ansel Verdigris
- Yule Greave
- Viriconium
- Audsley King
- Northman
- Matey
- Practal
- Lympany
- Northmen
- Moidart
- Livio Fognet
- Ashlyine
- Jane
- Mari
- Prinsep
- Ott
- Jo
- Michael
Quotes edit
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“The tenement in the Rue Sepile filled him with disgust for the people among whom he must now make his life. It's stairways wound like a tedious argument, luring part of his brain along with them until he found himself thinking, apropos of nothing, If the dead have a city it is like this one, and it smells of rats and withered geraniums...”
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“"La Petroleus" complains that I have made her look provincial. I have not. I have given her the face of a grocer, which is another matter entirely, and in no way a judgement.(p. 271)”
Ashlyme the portrait painter
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A thin skin only, taut as a drumhead, separates us from the future: events leak through it reluctantly, with a faint buzzing sound, if they make any noise at all—like the wind in an empty house before rain.
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Events involved him utterly; he encountered them with optimism and countered them with instinct; in their wake he had few opinions, only memories.
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Cromis was a man who, like most recluses, thought he understood himself, and did not.
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First Sentence edit
Some seventeen notable empires rose in the Middle Period of Earth.
Table of Contents edit
1. Viriconium Knights
2. The Pastel City
3. Lords of Misrule
4. Strange Great Sins
5. A Storm of Wings
6. The Dancer from the Dance
7. The Luck in the Head
8. The Lamia and Lord Cromis
9. In Viriconium
10. A Young Man's Journey to Viriconium
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Viriconium. (standard series)
This is book 7 of 37 in Millennium/Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks. (publisher edition list)
This book is in Significant Speculative Fiction (Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror). (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- M. John Harrison (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.914
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