severed connections

so horsemouth has started reading the ice monkey a collection of stories by m. john harrison. 

he wanted to start on pavane by keith roberts but he couldn't find it in the stacks.

it starts with the story the ice monkey. like climbers, m. john's later novel about climbers and climbing, he shows that he really gets the absurd nature of the risk and the reward. 

the new rays is that uncanny valley cancer treatment as horror. could be robert aickman. the incalling is more squalid horror. 

settling the world has one of the greatest (and most misleading) opening sentences,

'with the discovery of god on the far side of the moon...' 

friends from university, ex-wives (severed connections). the quarry and running down an almost perfect story for the GB75 era (and originally published in 1975 but subsequently revised for this edition).

it ends with egnaro which also finishes up the viriconium series of stories. there is another world somewhere that you can gain access to (if you just know where to look). 

horsemouth is looking forward to re-reading it all. egnaro he re-read recently. 

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yesterday horsemouth did some writing (well typing things in on the laptop). this will appear in another place. he had a zoom beer with howard. movies, books, exhaustion (on howard's part) rather than work and plans. 

today

the weather is mild. more writing (typing). probably a walk. the continued hunt for pavane. make a list of possible far future village band bits of work.