# Virconium *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 12 Mar 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Darryl Swett *12 Mar 2002, 17:09* 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) > From: Michael Andre-Driussi > 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.) > > =mantis= > > > Sirius Fiction > booklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley > Now with UPDATES! > http://www.siriusfiction.com/ > > > > -- ---