M. John Harrison The Pastel City
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For
millenia, The Pastel City had been the sole centre of civilisation on
an Earth despoiled and ruined by its own inhabitants: but now the
coloured towers were charred and tottering, as two queens fought for
supremacy, armed with the relics of a culture that had already
destroyed the world once...
Tegeus-Cromis,
the moody, introvert Lord of the Methven, left his seashore retreat to
fight for the Young Queen against the barbaric hordes of the Old. He
travelled and fought among the wasted deserts and dreaming marshes of
Viriconium, only to find that the War of the Two Queens was merely a
prelude to a vaster and more dangerous conflict...
Would
the Empire fall? Who would halt the invincible automata of an ancient
science, resurrected by the Old Queen to tear down the Pastel Towers?
Could a poet, a braggart and a heroic dwarf halt the irresistible flow
of Time and save the Empire from a destiny worse than barbarism...?
”So much better than other novels in its field that I believe it will in time become a favourite classic among readers of science fantasy.” – Michael Moorcock
”Harrison makes a tone poem of the far distant future where men and creatures which delight and terrify the imagination fight in the never-ceasing battle of good against evil.” – Philip José Farmer
by Seregil of Rhiminee
The Pastel City is an interesting, entertaining and readable science fiction book. I liked it, but it was perhaps a bit too simple.
Although this book is a classic science fiction book, it's not as good as some similar books, but it's still worth reading.
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M. John Harrison The Pastel City