The Best Living Fantasy Writer Just Won A Booker Prize

M. John Harrison, much appreciated here, author of Viriconium, Empty Space, and much more (and who said he liked my stuff occasionally) just won the prestigious Booker Prize for his latest.I wrote this in 2009 for The Rumpus:M John Harrison is doomed.Here is what is going to happen to him: in ten or twelve years, after the Hollywood development people have clawed past the Dunes and Narnias and Spider-Men and have begun to see the bottom of the complexly-constructed-fictional-realities-that-can-be-plausibly-turned-into-mammoth-SFX-epics barrel, Harrison’s work will be discovered and turned into films. This discovery will probably be at least partially due to all the hip, young science-fiction and fantasy writers currently claiming him as an influence–writers who will have many films to their names by then and who I hesitate to name here because they are all so much worse than he is that listing them would give the reader the wrong impression entirely. The films will be terrible because…

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