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description: Throughout his career M. John Harrisons writing has defied categorisation building worlds both unreal and all-too real overlapping and interlocking with each other. His stories are replete with fissures and portals into parallel dimensions unidentified countries and lost lands. But more important than the places they point to are the obsessions that drive the people who so believe in them characters who spend their lives hunting for and haunted by clues and maps that speak to the possibility of somewhere else.This selection of stories drawn from over 50 years of writing bears witness to that desire for difference: whether following backstreet occultists amateur philosophers down-and-outs or refugees we see our relationship with the other in microscopic detail and share in Harrisons rejection of the idea that the world or our understanding of it could ever be settled.
language: English
title: Settling the World: Selected Stories 1970-2020
publisher: None