Pile - Petals From Saint Klaed’s Computer.

Hardback, Jonathan Cape, London 1979. ISBN 0 224 01739 X. Also published in North America by Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York 1979. ISBN 0 03 053296 5. 250 mm x 335 mm (10 inches x 13 inches), 32 pages illustrated throughout in black and white and colour.

My illustrations accompany Brian Aldiss’ epic poem and depict the colossal world of Pile, a city without physical or imaginative boundaries. Prince Scart, the ruler of Pile, travels to the mirror-world of Elip in a vain attempt to prevent his realm from buckling under its own weight.

© Mike Wilks 2008