“Gears of the City” Wanders a Fantastical, Godless Urban Landscape
M. John Harrison’s Viriconium has inspired a fantasy tradition of strange, shifting cities, and his influence pervades the first two Ararat novels by Felix Gilman, tales of internecine warfare in a vast urban landscape. In Thunderer (2008, Bantam Spectra) a young monk, Arjun, is on a mission to find his God. For untold ages the…