Originally a short story, and now refashioned as a graphic novel. It portrays a nightmare society steeped in violence and ritual, and is set in the decadent and ever-shifting fantasy world created for "In Viriconium", runner-up for the 1982 "Guardian" Fiction Prize.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Luck in the Head,
By Alex Parsons (Newcastle, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Luck in the Head (A VG Graphic Novel) (Paperback)
However successful this short story is in its text form, Luck in the Head becomes a visual masterpiece with some of Ian Miller's most outrageous illustrations and interpretations of the city's horror and vacancy as well as Chrome's loneliness and confusion. Ian Miller bombards his audience with crude depictions as well as intricate ones, all depending on the atmosphere he is trying to set. Very Successful Graphic Novel.
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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Ill-judged adaptation,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Luck in the Head (A VG Graphic Novel) (Paperback)
This graphic novel is an adaptation of the immeasurably-more-subtle story of the same name to be found in Harrison's collection "Viriconium Nights". The artist has focussed on the violence of the story, leaving out the extraordinarily subtle relationship between character, philosophy and landscape which is Harrison's trademark. Forget this, and take the real trip: get "Viriconium Nights" and "In Viriconium" (called "The Floating Gods" in the US, but the British edition is better) instead.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Haunting and Surreal,
By Leigh Blackmore "Leigh" (Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Luck in the Head (A VG Graphic Novel) (Paperback)
As in all the work of M John Harrison, there is more going on in THE LUCK IN THE HEAD than meets the eye. Part of his metafictional world of Viriconium (a city that changes its name as well as its character in connected stories in his VIRICONIUM fantasies), this tale is brilliantly and darkly brought to visual life by the incredible draughtsmanship of Ian Miller. It is the story of a failed assassination attempt on the life of Mammy Vooley, the bizarre goddess-ruler-thing of Uroconium (as the city is called this time). Too bizarre for some, this will be relished by lovers of Lautreamont, delvers in the arcane, and fans of Harrison's often-oblique but always haunting fictions.
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