I am tempted to try this one just because it has won a major award, and I'm a huge sci fi reader.

However, I suspect I will be one of the one star or DNF reviewers - I haven't enjoyed any of the other M John Harrison books I tried. The ideas are usually interesting but the execution tends towards weirdness and not much plot. Great at creating atmosphere but not so good at holding my attention. Maybe I will give it a go...

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bawolff 9 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

As a general rule I usually find scifi books that win awards outside the genere but aren't recognized inside the genere to be pretty bad.

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lproven 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> I haven't enjoyed any of the other M John Harrison books I tried

100% this.

I like the man and he's a great public speaker. I do not get on with his novels at all, from In Viriconium to a few decades later when everyone loved Light so I gave his "SF" another try.

	▲	duggan 25 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I read a good bit of Light, I had the sense that it was probably very clever but just not for me. Too gloomy, with unlikeable characters. I also began to suspect it was more magical realism than science fiction. Maybe incorrectly, but made me lose interest.

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t_mahmood 29 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Can you list some of the recent good sci-fis please? I haven't read any new after Salvation series by P. Hamilton