*LONGLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2018*

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.

'M. John Harrison's slippery, subversive stories mix the eerie and familiar into beguiling, alarming marvels. No one writes quite like him; no one I can think of writes such flawless sentences, or uses them to such disorientating effect.'
- Olivia Laing, author of The Lonely City

'These stories map a rediscovered fictional hinterland, one tucked behind the glossier edifices of modernity and genre with views down alleyways into pubs and flats where Patrick Hamilton glares balefully at J. G. Ballard.'
- Will Eaves, author of This is Paradise

'M. John Harrison moves elegantly, passionately, from genre to genre, his prose lucent and wise, his stories published as SF or as fantasy, as horror or as mainstream fiction. In each playing field, he wins awards, and makes it look so easy. His prose is deceptively simple, each word considered and placed where it can sink deepest and do the most damage.'
- Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods

'With an austere and deeply moving humanism, M. John Harrison proves what only those crippled by respectability still doubt - that science fiction can be literature, of the very greatest kind.'
- China Miéville, author of Perdido Street Station

'The wit and effortless elegance of the writing are impeccable.' - Ursula K Le Guin for The Guardian

'[A] quiet giant of British writing... extraordinarily flexible prose. It's restrained and luminous' - The Daily Telegraph

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