Housmans is pleased to welcome sci-fi supremo M. John Harrison to our first digital event in collaboration with indie publishers Comma Press and Influx Press.
Considered one of the most important stylists of modern fantasy and science fiction working today, and a pioneer of the New Wave, award-winning author M. John Harrison can count amongst his fans the likes of Neil Gaiman, Iain Banks and Robert Macfarlane.
Throughout his career, M. John’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.
His latest collection, Settling the World, is a selection of stories, drawn from 50 years of writing (1979-2020), follows backstreet occultists, amateur philosophers, down-and-outs or refugees, and explores our relationship with ‘the other’ in microscopic detail. What the characters have in common is they share in Harrison’s rejection of the idea that the world, or our understanding of it, could ever be settled.
We have 50 signed copies of Settling the World which will be allocated to ticket holders on a first come first served basis.
Attendees will be emailed the zoom link the morning of the event: please check your spam folder. If you have not received the link, please contact shop[at]housmans[dot]com 
THE SPEAKERS
M. John Harrison is the author of eleven novels (including In Viriconium, The Course of the Heart and Light), 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 The Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement, and lives in Shropshire.
Gary Budden is a writer, editor and co-founder of the award winning Influx Press. He is the author of the books Hollow Shores, Judderman (as D.A. Northwood), and The White Heron Beneath the Reactor with artist Maxim Griffin. London Incognita is forthcoming in 2020.
*If you are unable to pay the entry price, please email Housmans Bookshop*