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Viriconium lies in a dying Earth littered with the detritus of the millennia, partly drawn from motifs and deconstructs the whole series to show that Viriconium is just a fiction: the protagonist Audsley King realizes this and at last can paint the ''real'' world, which is our own. The short fiction replays this attrition; finally, in "A Young Man's Journey to Viriconium" (later retitled "A Young Man's Journey to London"), Viriconium has become little more than a dream. Variations of the city appear throughout the series (most frequently as Uriconium and Vriko), in an attempt by Harrison to subvert the concept of thoroughly-mapped secondary worlds featured in certain works of fantasy, particularly those by J. R. R. Tolkien and his host of writerly successors. {Link without Title} The Viriconium series tends to split readers: they either love it or hate it; few are indifferent. Those looking for a robust Science Fantasy will be disappointed; those willing to delve further may well be rewarded. It belongs to Dying Earth Subgenre , which has been inspired by Jack Vance's book of the same title. Note: there was a similarly named real town called Viroconium , a Roman city in Britain on the site of what is now Wroxeter . EXTERNAL LINKS # "What It Might Be Like To Live In Viriconium" , by M. John Harrison |
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