![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That said, I suspect the narrative itself will intrigue most readers of more standard entries, although the characters are not the strapping young desperate to win passionate new love and resurrect the “Golden Age” of the past. John Harrison’s fascination with degeneration of landscape and purpose attempts a dialogue about the nature of genre. Although not as forceful as The Centauri Device (1974) in its subversion of fantasy/SF quest tropes, M. Īs one can expect from Harrison, decadence and decay seeps from the quires of The Pastel City as characters try to create meaning, or grasp hold of half-formed shreds of past purpose, in a world that will continue to crumble regardless of the defeat of evil. I am still trying to identify the cause of the book’s other wounds…. So much in fact that they propped up the first volume of the Viriconium sequence against a tree and used it for BB gun target practice. John Harrison’s The Pastel City (1971) must have harbored a pernicious grudge against corroded landscapes and nebulous morals. One of the previous owners of my copy of M. (Bruce Pennington’s cover for the 1971 edition) ![]()
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