m john harrison

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Writer. Goldsmiths Prize, 2020. Booker Prize jury, 2022. "Wish I Was Here", Serpents Tail: paperback ed, 7th March 2024. Blog at: https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/

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the postie calls-- ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2024/07/13/t...

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"These memories aren't Proustian. They are more like glitch art or soft errors, vague unhelpful frissons, flashes of recognition in which the real object remains hidden." - @mjohnharrison.bsky.social WISH I WAS HERE (Image: Hans Hoffman, Hedgehog, 1584)

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A good meme to send people who are convinced we live in a computer simulation.

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Book review as Ballardian condensed biography, in this @londonreview.bsky.social piece on Ballard as book reviewer (with cameos by @mjohnharrison.bsky.social et al)—one of the better career summations I’ve seen now that 15 years have passed since JGB’s death: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Edmund Gordon · His Galactic Centrifuge: Ballard’s Enthusiasmswww.lrb.co.uk J.G. Ballard was consistent in saying that his imagery came from deep within himself – until it crossed a certain...

All of this in this week's TLS + me on de Marcken's glorious zombie revision--

I wish I could stop saying "weird" to cover everything, so lazy

these weird bulletins are all I can manage

Novel going well--if rather startlingly--in pursuit of the inexpressible that contexts it. Hope not to be tempted to overcorrect with whatever I do after this one.

reification of metaphor is never the game

not writing a synopsis, especially for yourself

being somewhere else

WIWH & TSLBTRA off quietly gathering new covers & a new kind of following in translation--

Every time I get a nice cover I have to sit down. A wash of relief has come over me. It's not a weakness specific to that moment. It's a kind of relief about your life.

Some temporal slippage here. A quick google reveals that my birthday is on the 26th of July. Thank god for a couple of months left not being 79.

I wrote another "birthday" bit for @file770.bsky.social , this time on @mjohnharrison.bsky.social file770.com/pixel-scroll...

Pixel Scroll 4/26/24 A Pixel Lives Forever, But Not So Files And Scrollsfile770.com (1) NOBODY’S HOME. [Item by Steven French.] Extract from a new book in that old chestnut, where is everybody? Smithsonian Magazine asks “Where Is Everybody in Our Universe?” …There is no doubt that…

This made my morning-- at 3m15s. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZAM...

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my favorite book of last year will soon be available in Amerikay

WIWH: US hardback available for preorder from Saga; UK paperback in the bookshops now--

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Reviewed Hiroko Oyamada's novella The Hole for the April issue of the Literary Review-- literaryreview.co.uk/free-fallin

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Picked this up on a whim in a Paris bookshop, pleased to have encountered the Ravelstein character; comic and dark in equal measure. Bellow is quite the craftsman.

Find it a bit strange that people could ever think this had gone away-- www.theguardian.com/books/2024/m... --or not get that the technology is ageing junk.

the postie's call-- ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2024/04/02/t...

the post's arrived-- ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2024/03/30/e...

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"reading" a "book" on my phone & realizing i cannot intuit structure without at least the simulacrum of the physical object

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"The job was the same as it always was. The job never changed, because the job was simply to stay on top of the game. And if the game kept changing, then that was just part of the job." #WIP

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Hey it's Wednesday afternoon, and so OFFICIALLY nearly the weekend... and A Personal Anthology! This week's guest editor, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, is Melissa Beck, whose selection has a distinct classical flavour. Sign up here: apersonalanthology.substack.com/about

About - A Personal Anthologyapersonalanthology.substack.com A weekly guest-editor picks and introduces a personal anthology of twelve favourite short stories. Click to read A Personal Anthology, by Jonathan Gibbs, a Substack publication with thousands of subsc...

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private reading is good

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