To say I’m excited about the impending publication of the new novel, The End of Everything, by M. John Harrison would be something of an understatement.

“Phillip Tennent makes his living at the tideline, collecting artefacts that wash up from the Channel. It's been years since the crisis changed everything, but its exact nature remains obscure. Government barely functions, the seas are full of new creatures, Europe has been mislaid. It feels like the end.

Now Phillip has fished out of the water an object he can't keep. A creature that keeps changing. An artefact he must take inland, before it destroys everything he thinks he knows.”

I love that cover design, the sickly way the “Everything” in the title collapses towards the bottom of the page, a metaphor for decay, runoff, entropy or perhaps something much worse.

As another (connected) Mike once asked “What is the exact nature of the catastrophe?”

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RE: https://mastodonsweden.se/@fof/115888026766156886

Den här boken är otroligt underhållande. Slutet är iofs givet från början, det får man ta.

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Golly, one whole year to wait! Thank you for the teaser.

("Petrol coloured water" is such an evocative image.)

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"but you already feel, somewhere in the back of your head, the whole contraption tipping & lurching toward a real structured thing. I love that feeling."

Creator's reward. Very precisely expressed.

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https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2023/08/08/next-book/

Had a great time discussing dark matter, dark energy and anti-matter at #BloomDK with @Hotblack43 + Carol Anne Oxborrow, inspired by Jeffery Hangst's talk..

Did you know the #ASIM instrument on the #ISS literally measures the annihilation of positrons in the upper atmosphere via the gamma rays emitted? Utterly fascinating.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-019-0592-z

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So anyway, my next book is from the festival haul. #TheEndOfEverything by @AstroKatie