M John Harrison

It's really great news that M John Harrison won the Booker. I don't really like the modern trend of having news stories appear on billboards and bus stops - it seems vaguely totalitarian - but seeing his photo in an ABC News story on my morning walk up Lane Cove Road was enjoyable and weird. It's hard to know where to start with recommendations: the Viriconium stories are probably my favourite fantasy series, starting out as one of the finest examples of the Dying Earth subgenre and then gradually undermining their own fantasy in increasingly perplexing, even heartbreaking, ways. Climbers is neither fantasy nor science fiction, remained unfairly out of print for years and is one of my favourite novels about why men are like that. The short story collections You Should Come With Me Now and Settling the World are both excellent. Ove the last month I've been off work with a nasty case of influenza and have been trying not to read too many tech blogs as the discourse around AI is not good…

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