Cinnabar Book

It overturned my expectations twice. I went in expecting something akin to Viriconium--a dying science-fictiony city at the end of time--but this seemed to be defied in the early stories. But just as I started to groove to the mysterious not-obviously-futuristic feel, it twisted again and became that Viriconium. Actually more sort of a Dancers at the End of Time and The City and the Stars.

Afterwards, I'm not sure what to think. The stories make a more poetic sense than anything else, and may not be intended to convey more than an otherworldly mood. There are elements of literary experimentation that put it into the New Wave school.

I honestly would have preferred if the stories kept to the outskirts of Cinnabar, and the city itself kept a mystery.