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City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin.


I did a relatively recent re-read and I dimly recall a planet with some kind of entity that either you ate it and it choked you, or it forced itself into your mouth and choked you... Something like that. It was one of the deaths described, but not experienced, so not a huge part of the novel, unless I'm forgetting something.

I don’t remember a fungus specifically, but it did have every other gross thing you could possibly imagine. That book made me feel really icky.

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