Viriconium » (Reprint)

M. John Harrison is the award-winning author of eight previous novels and four collections of short stories. His fifth novel, Viriconium, was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize and his sixth, Climbers, won the Boardman Tasker Award. Light was recently awarded the James Tiptree Jr. Award and shortlisted for the 2002 Arthur C. Clarke Award.

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: The Pastel City, A Storm of Wings, In Viriconium, and Viriconium Nights. Back in print after a long absence, these singular tales of a timeless realm and its enigmatic inhabitants are now reborn and compiled to captivate a whole new generation.

The Washington Post - Paul Di Filippo

Exotically colorful characters struggle against ennui and the weight of the ages while their world is riven by internecine politics, alien invasion and revenants from the long-gone "Afternoon Cultures." A glorious twilight air of decline prevails, and Harrison's three favorite adjectives -- "queer," "curious" and "peculiar" -- are the reigning catchwords.