Book Review Time
Nov. 18th, 2005 10:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluegargantuaHey,
So I just finished up Viriconium by M. JOhn Harrison. Mr. Harrison is the author of Light and this is a collection of stories he wrote earlier in his career between 1971 and 1985.
There are three novellas and a scattering of short stories. They all tend to center around the city of Viriconium which sits at the end of human history atop the long forgotten debris of all the empires that came before it. The stories carry similar things and remind you of taking a picture and xeroxing it over and over again. Each time, the image becomes a little less distinct, a little more dreamlike, but still the threads of the original image remain. In a similar way, the stories go from the more convetional and concrete to the more etherical and dreamlike.
It might easily be compared to Jack Vance (for the rich, evocative text), China Mieville (for the city itself) and Michel Moorcock (for the echoing stories).
I really rather liked it and I can think of a few people out there who should pick this up (or borrow it from me).
later
Tom
So I just finished up Viriconium by M. JOhn Harrison. Mr. Harrison is the author of Light and this is a collection of stories he wrote earlier in his career between 1971 and 1985.
There are three novellas and a scattering of short stories. They all tend to center around the city of Viriconium which sits at the end of human history atop the long forgotten debris of all the empires that came before it. The stories carry similar things and remind you of taking a picture and xeroxing it over and over again. Each time, the image becomes a little less distinct, a little more dreamlike, but still the threads of the original image remain. In a similar way, the stories go from the more convetional and concrete to the more etherical and dreamlike.
It might easily be compared to Jack Vance (for the rich, evocative text), China Mieville (for the city itself) and Michel Moorcock (for the echoing stories).
I really rather liked it and I can think of a few people out there who should pick this up (or borrow it from me).
later
Tom
