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Shades of Cornelius, 6 May 2001
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The only stories to match Moorcock's in the Jerry Cornelius collection The New Nature of the Catastrophe are M. John Harrison's, written in the early 70s. While Harrison was using a technique borrowed from Moorcock, he was still using it to promote his own ideas. If anyone thinks this book lacks substance, I suggest they check out Harrison's Cornelius stories. They will find recurring obsessions if not the depth of this novel. Harrison is a fine, substantial writer with a long career, in which he has matured and expanded his range. This is not his best work, but it is better than 99% of anything else I've found so far! In England, I mean, not here!
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Chill, unsettling and rather too plausible, 24 Oct 2000
Slapdash irresponsible scientists, criminally negligent couriers, corruption, exploitation and cruelty - these are just the bits sticking up out of this murky water. The impossibility of realising dreams, the impossibility of accepting that, the responsibilities of love and the absence of spirit - these may be lurking underneath, but it is hard to see in this bad light. Perhaps you had better put your own head under and decide for yourself. Be careful: the water's cold.
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Clever, funny, grim and hopeful, 18 Jan 2000
By A Customer
This extraordinary story weaves its way from genre to genre--romance, thriller, sf and horror novel--to tease out the dreams, feelings, failures and inner realities of the narrator and his friends. In the west we long ago lost the distinction between the words "dream" and "aspiration": M John Harrison uses the new biotechnology to show very clearly that the two words are not synonymous. If you like a book that delights in *being* a book; if you like a book that thinks; if you want to know what the novel is going to be like in the next millenium; if you'd like to see how it's possible to write a horror-sf-women's romance for men: read this.
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