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Viriconium (series of novels)

Introduction
Viriconium
The Northmen

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Introduction

Viriconium is a fictional city created by M. John Harrison and also the name of the cycle of novels and stories set in and around it.
Esteban Rivera, 27 Aug 2010, quoting from the English Wikipedia

The series is part of the “Dying Earth” subgenre of science fiction, popularized by Jack Vance in the 50’s and characterized by a setting in the very far future, in the twilight of the planet, usually in decadent, foundering societies haunted by past glories. Harrison brought to this a postmodern touch, subtly shifting times, events, and places for a certain paradoxical dreamlike quailty — as he says, «Viriconium is never the same place twice.»
Eugene Ipavec, 16 Feb 2006

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Viriconium

(reconstruction)

by Eugene Ipavec and Vincent Morley, 16 Feb 2006

The short story in which the flag of Viriconium is “The Luck in the Head.” Relevant quote:

It was the anniversary of the liberation of Uroconium from the Analeptic Kings. Householders lined the steep hill up at Alves. Great velvet banners, featuring black crosses on a red and white ground, hung down the balconies above their naked heads.

(pg. 394, Millennium/Gollancz omnibus edition, 2000) With a description this vague any number of interpretations are plausible, especially as the text leaves it unclear wheter a plural of banners or crosses is meant (I’m inclined to interpret it as the latter). (The city is at this point named Uroconium, and is further renamed to Vira Co at the end of the story.)
Eugene Ipavec, 27 Aug 2010

Harrison is English, so I have taken the liberty of borrowing the English flag.
Eugene Ipavec, 16 Feb 2006

According to the frontispiece, the author adapted “The Luck in the Head” into a graphic novel in 1991 (ISBN: 0-575-05014-4); a definitive design of the flag might appear there.
Eugene Ipavec, 27 Aug 2010

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