A Storm of Wings
core novel 1980 Viriconium
Record
| First published | 1980 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.75 (684 ratings, collected 2026-10-28) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780385147651 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
A strange lunacy has gripped Viriconium: its people are losing interest in their own survival, and nobody can explain why. The reason is an invasion of intelligent, locust-like insects whose way of perceiving the universe is radically unlike humanity's, brought to Earth long ago by a lost astronaut and now threatening to remake the world in their image. The city's defenders set out to confront the threat in a quest that is as much a search for identity as a war, and the competing ways of seeing reality fight for supremacy over the city itself.
Where it sits
- Universe: Viriconium
- Series: Viriconium core; position 2 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: M. John Harrison
Notes
- From the series record (Viriconium): The three novels set in and around the far-future city of Viriconium.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Viriconium: position 2 of 4: previous The Pastel City (1971) · next In Viriconium (1982)
- Internal chronology, within Viriconium: position 2 of 3: previous The Pastel City (1971) · next In Viriconium (1982)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Viriconium
- Reader ratings: Viriconium series page
- Library catalogue record: A Storm of Wings (Doubleday, 1980, first edition)
- EBSCO Research Starters: The Viriconium Sequence
- David's Book World: Viriconium
- ISBN-13 form of the recorded ISBN-10 0553378465 (same edition)
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