You Should Come With Me Now: Stories of Ghosts
M. John Harrison is a cartographer of the liminal. His work sits at the boundaries between genres - horror and science fiction, fantasy and travel writing - just as his characters occupy the no man's land between the spatial and the spiritual. Here, in his first collection of short fiction for over 15 years, we see the master of the New Wave present unsettling visions of contemporary urban Britain, as well as supernatural parodies of the wider, political landscape. From gelatinous aliens taking over the world's financial capitals, to the middle-aged man escaping the pressures of fatherhood by going missing in his own house... these are weird stories for weird times.
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Harrison's ghosts - liminal people leading liminal lives in liminal places. Typically strange and oneiric with a reluctance to explain and resistance to closure that's been a characteristic of Harrison's work from the start. Liminal fiction too perhaps - for the most part these stories have more in common with the recent [b:The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again|49201192|The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again|M. John Harrison|https:i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1587253025l/49201192._SY75_.jpg|74651481] than the widescreen SF of The Kefahuchi Tract trilogy [b:Light|17735|Light (Kefahuchi Tract, #1)|M. John Harrison|https:i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1389700041l/17735._SX50_.jpg|295250], [b:Nova Swing|1666406|Nova Swing (Kefahuchi Tract, #2)|M. John Harrison|https:i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1320499016l/1666406._SY75_.jpg|295249], [b:Empty Space: A Haunting|11014888|Empty Space A Haunting (Kefahuchi Tract, #3)|M. John Harrison|https:i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1340285686l/11014888._SY75_.jpg|15934036]. While possibly less compelling than Harrison's longer tales there is still much here to relish though this is maybe not the best starting place for newcomers.
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