{"product_id":"settling-the-world-selected-stories-9781912697281","title":"Settling the World: Selected Stories","description":"Throughout his career, M. John Harrison's 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 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 Harrison's rejection of the idea that the world, or our understanding of it, could ever be settled.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eM. John Harrison \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of eleven novels (including\u003ci\u003e In Viriconium, The Course of the Heart and Light\u003c\/i\u003e), as well as four previous short story collections, two graphic novels, and collaborations with Jane Johnson, writing as Gabriel King. He won the Boardman Tasker Award for Climbers (1989), the James Tiptree Jr Award for Light (2002), and the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Nova Swing (2007). He reviews fiction for \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e the Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, and lives in Shropshire.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Comma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50914346860818,"sku":"9781912697281","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ecbf2afc-8e8d-491d-b4bb-2f4be0bcdc51.jpg?v=1738813446","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/settling-the-world-selected-stories-9781912697281","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}