The plot is a straightforward – a band of heroes at the end of time set out to save the world. John Harrison is wasting his time and his gift with this sort of material” but also added that “if you like elegantly crafted, elegantly written sword and sorcery, this book is all you could ask for.”Īlthough it’s the weakest of the three Viriconium novels, (with an especially underwritten role for the solitary female character who seems only to exist to be in a state of peril) it still makes for a solid science fantasy adventure. In a contemporaneous review, Michael Bishop said that “M. Harrison has said he didn’t find himself until 1980, and it’s true that it is difficult to recognise this straightforward piece of escapism as a Harrison novel, the young writer is strongly under the influence of Michael Moorcock, and this reads like fantasy in the Elric vein. The first, The Committed Men, is out of print today, and the second, The Pastel City, would go on to become the foundation to the acclaimed Viriconium sequence. In miniature, the end of the world.ġ971 saw the publication of M. It is a poor empire I have… Everywhere the death of the landscape.
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