lori85 's review for:

Viriconium by M. John Harrison

3.0

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I first learned of this series in a post on /r/WeirdFiction asking for recommendations of books with imagery reminiscent of Zdzisław Beksiński's paintings. Harrison indeed evokes some striking pictures of decay and deep time and a medieval civilization grinding to slow death in the shadow of a lost technological past. Unfortunately, for all his original concepts, the plots are generally conventional fantasy, which doesn't appeal to me at all.