Review: Character focused story, very mildly genre
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 23, 2013
M John Harrison, far better known for novels and stories such as his Viriconium sequence, here turns to a not-quite-contemporary Earth story in "Cave and Julia".Like some of his other stories, it is set in and around the land of Autotelia. Like Austin Tappan Wright's Islandia, Autotelia is an imaginary addition to our Earth of uncertain location. Cave and Julia centers around the long relationship of two characters, to each other, and to that land itself.Aside from the invention of Autotelia, this story isn't genre in any significant sense.I'd really recommend this only for fans of Harrison already. It's too short to really get a sense of his work and style for newcomers.