The Floating Gods - M. John Harrison - 1983 Timescape Pocket Books Paperback - Michael Whelan Cover Charles W. Runyan Cover artist: Barney Plotkin

Cover artist: Barney Plotkin

Fans and critics called their work cyberpunk

Edith Darrow

But the immortals planned instead to escape to another planet - leaving Earth to its terrible fate

guided by a drumbeat

The Floating Gods - M. John Harrison - 1983 Timescape Pocket Books Paperback - Michael Whelan Cover Charles W. Runyan Cover artist: Barney PlotkinCondition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. Cover art: Michael Whelan Blurb: THE FLOATING GODS THE PASTEL CITY OF VIRICONIUM WAS A TEMPLE OF LOST HOPE. The gods had come down to frolic drunkenly in the gutters. Time had been stretched so thin as to lose its meaning. The pestilence had spread from the Low City to the High. And the last great artist sat in the plague zone where she waited for the end. Something had to be done. Ashlyme