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A Storm of Wings (Viriconium #2)
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The most disturbing and maddening of the Viriconium trilogy, but also the most eloquent and poignant.
A horde of intergalactic telepathic alien locusts, lost and aimless, descends on a broken, ailing world, mutating reality and in turn being remade by its disease and dysfunction. Viriconium is a thin, shifting dream of a world, with a long forgotten past, of which only echoes and ghosts remain...
"'The world,' whispered Benedict Paucemanly, 'is desperately trying to remember itself . . . blork . . . nomadacris Septemfasciata!. . . what a lovely bit of meat . . .'"
Despite the sublime, poetic prose and rich, febrile imagery this is not an easy read. It is in fact maddening, and quite possibly intended as such.
A horde of intergalactic telepathic alien locusts, lost and aimless, descends on a broken, ailing world, mutating reality and in turn being remade by its disease and dysfunction. Viriconium is a thin, shifting dream of a world, with a long forgotten past, of which only echoes and ghosts remain...
"'The world,' whispered Benedict Paucemanly, 'is desperately trying to remember itself . . . blork . . . nomadacris Septemfasciata!. . . what a lovely bit of meat . . .'"
Despite the sublime, poetic prose and rich, febrile imagery this is not an easy read. It is in fact maddening, and quite possibly intended as such.
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