If you were enthralled by the mysterious ruins and evocative landscapes of The Pastel City, Viriconium delves even deeper into a richly layered world, filled with strange cityscapes, decaying technology, and shifting cultures. Each story envelops you in imaginative details and haunting ambiance, expanding the mythos of a city that seems to exist at the edge of reality.

If you appreciated Lord tegeus-Cromis’ ambiguous decisions and enigmatic motives in The Pastel City, you’ll be captivated by Severian, the torturer apprentice in Wolfe’s masterpiece. His journey through a dying Earth is rife with difficult choices, unreliable memories, and a continual tension between mercy and duty.

If the faded grandeur and sense of loss in The Pastel City lingered with you, Engine Summer offers a beautifully melancholic vision of a world reshaped by forgotten technologies and mythic echoes. Follow Rush That Speaks as he traverses gentle ruins and encounters communities shaped by memory and myth, all rendered in poetic, haunting prose.

If you enjoyed the mysterious ancient machinery and the almost magical science in The Pastel City, Vance’s The Dying Earth will delight you with its wondrous artifacts, arcane sciences, and the enigmatic blending of magic and lost technology in a world nearing its end.

If the somber, tragic tone and sense of looming doom in The Pastel City resonated with you, The Broken Sword weaves a tale of cursed destinies, doomed heroes, and a world shadowed by ancient powers, all delivered in lyrical, haunting language.