Hello Mantis,
I did a quick search on my library site, and I found these entries:
1 The Centauri Device / [By] M. John Harrison. BOOK 1974.
2 The Committed Men / [By] M. John Harrison. BOOK 1971.
3 The Pastel City / [By] M. John Harrison. BOOK 1972 [c1971]
Do these make up Virconium? And the order is oldest to newest? This series looks very interesting.
Thank you, sir.
Dragonfly (Darryl)
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From: Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at siriusfiction.com>
Reply-To: urth at urth.net
To: urth at urth.net
Subject: Re: (urth) Follow up: I need help
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 06:18:46 -0800
G Willickers wrote:
Does anyone have evidence of Earth's pollution
other than the poisoning of the water supply?
Industrial pollution doesn't seem to play a large part in the Commonwealth. The poisoning of the water seems more a result of the city's large population than any residue of previous ages.
(Pollution plays a more significant role in M. John Harrison's far future, but not "dying sun" series: Virconium. THE PASTEL CITY is one novel. IIRC, there are deserts of metallic rust, pools of corrosive agents, etc. Which, in turn, reminds me of Miyazaki's manga/anime film "Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind," which is very much about pollution lingering into the far future, changing society and the landscape.)
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