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A tide of paranoid distrust: The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, by M. John Harrison, reviewed

8 August 2020

9:00 AM

8 August 2020

9:00 AM

The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again M. John Harrison

Gollancz, pp.272, 20

Settling the World: Selected Short Stories, 1969–2020 M. John Harrison

Comma Press, pp.272, 9.99

Over the past 50 years, M. John Harrison has produced a remarkably varied body of work: a dozen atmospheric novels and five volumes of finely controlled short stories that have ranged from austere realism to operatic fantasy.

He is not easily pigeon-holed — an intentional state of affairs, but one that has denied him a large readership.

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