The Pastel City
Book description
The first book in the Viriconium series: In the distant future, a medieval system rises from the ruins of a technology that destroyed itself. Armored knights ride their horses across dunes of rust, battling for the honor of the Queen. But the knights find more to menace them than mere…
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1 author picked The Pastel City as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Set among the post-apocalyptic remnants of a far-future earth, this book combines the “forgotten technology” trope common to science fiction with archetypal fantasy characters.
Civilisations relying on technology so advanced it’s incomprehensible to them, is one of my favourite concepts in science fiction. Harrison uses this to create a world I thought was magical, melancholic, and nostalgic–effecting a tone more common to epic fantasy.
However, it is the imagery that sets this book apart, with Harrison depicting battlefields and blasted landscapes with a colourful yet eerily retro and forlorn beauty. It was like reading T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land in…
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