![]() “Viriconium” is the last empire on Earth, a decadent city that thrives on its own past. “The Pastel City” is a work from the early 1970s, and I think you can clearly recognize the style of Moorcock, Leiber, but above all Jack Vance. But as in the classics of fantasy, I don't see in it the idea that would make it truly permanent.īeyond that, the four parts of the collection cannot be discussed together, because there are huge differences between them. ![]() His prose is impressive, I'll admit that - with the added bonus that it's already a pain in the ass. The Severian tetralogy), and even his linguistic inventions colour the world, I do not find originality in Harrison's universe. But while Wolfe makes perfect use of his bizarre imagination in “The Book of the New Sun” (a.k.a. “Viriconium” is a series of stories in an endlessly baroque style, which can perhaps be described most simply as starting from Mervyn Peake and leading to Gene Wolfe. ![]()
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