m john harrison
@mjohnharrison.bsky.social
New novel: The End of Everything
Serpent's Tail, June, 2026.
Blog: https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/about
Serpent's Tail, June, 2026.
Blog: https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/about
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Landscapes are written about, but there will be no landscape writing. Ghosts appear, but not in the ghost stories. Animals feature heavily, but there is nothing here that might be described as “animal fiction”.
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There are certain writers who I adore as people & as public figures, and I get every single one of their novels bc I love the concepts. And every time I get one or two chapters in & their patronising attitude to the reader, expressed through language choices & characterisation, boils my piss.
November 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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I just reread "The Course of the Heart" and I'm getting creeped out just getting up for the bathroom in the night with the house dark. Dammit, that's a creepy book!
I just reread "The Course of the Heart" and I'm getting creeped out just getting up for the bathroom in the night with the house dark. Dammit, that's a creepy book!
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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I just reread "The Course of the Heart" and I'm getting creeped out just getting up for the bathroom in the night with the house dark. Dammit, that's a creepy book!
I just reread "The Course of the Heart" and I'm getting creeped out just getting up for the bathroom in the night with the house dark. Dammit, that's a creepy book!
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+1; they make the boundaries of the bodyspace too... malleable. As if flesh were plasticine or silly putty. I think
@mjohnharrison.bsky.social sometimes writes things that describe a similar phenomenon (brilliantly, but I don't think it's supposed to be reassuring... 🫣).
@mjohnharrison.bsky.social sometimes writes things that describe a similar phenomenon (brilliantly, but I don't think it's supposed to be reassuring... 🫣).
November 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
+1; they make the boundaries of the bodyspace too... malleable. As if flesh were plasticine or silly putty. I think
@mjohnharrison.bsky.social sometimes writes things that describe a similar phenomenon (brilliantly, but I don't think it's supposed to be reassuring... 🫣).
@mjohnharrison.bsky.social sometimes writes things that describe a similar phenomenon (brilliantly, but I don't think it's supposed to be reassuring... 🫣).
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Hampstead Heath, 07:58
November 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Hampstead Heath, 07:58
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Ice pond at sunset, 4.05pm
November 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Ice pond at sunset, 4.05pm
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Packaging up some Changing Landscapes zines to go in the post today if anyone wants to jump on the band wagon and get theirs!
40 pages of abandoned North Pennines structures to make your stomach fizzy.
£10 including UK postage.
#Photography #Zine
www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
40 pages of abandoned North Pennines structures to make your stomach fizzy.
£10 including UK postage.
#Photography #Zine
www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
Changing Landscapes Zine
Changing Landscapes – Ruins of the North Pennines is my second zine, following on from Transporter. For those who don’t know, a zine is a mini magazine, usually focused on one subject, and it…
www.mariegardiner.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Packaging up some Changing Landscapes zines to go in the post today if anyone wants to jump on the band wagon and get theirs!
40 pages of abandoned North Pennines structures to make your stomach fizzy.
£10 including UK postage.
#Photography #Zine
www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
40 pages of abandoned North Pennines structures to make your stomach fizzy.
£10 including UK postage.
#Photography #Zine
www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
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I wrote this short piece www.economist.com/science-and-... about this interesting paper
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A better way to look for signs of ancient biology
It could also be useful in finding life on other planets
www.economist.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I wrote this short piece www.economist.com/science-and-... about this interesting paper
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Congratulations @benpester.bsky.social! 👏🎉👏
A second prize shortlisting for @benpester.bsky.social after the @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social. Whoop!
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Congratulations @benpester.bsky.social! 👏🎉👏
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I have bought the birds “Value Energy Balls” instead of the usual RSPB Suet Balls and if sparrows can said to fly contemptuously then that is what’s happening in the garden right now.
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I have bought the birds “Value Energy Balls” instead of the usual RSPB Suet Balls and if sparrows can said to fly contemptuously then that is what’s happening in the garden right now.
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“There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is,” said the restaurant manager.
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 AM
“There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is,” said the restaurant manager.
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I spend quite a lot of my spare time considering the Austro-Hungarian Empire. But not so much that it’s one of my qualities.
November 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
I spend quite a lot of my spare time considering the Austro-Hungarian Empire. But not so much that it’s one of my qualities.
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Thames looking upstream at Barnes Bridge around 4:10 pm today
November 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Thames looking upstream at Barnes Bridge around 4:10 pm today
Someone needs to deal with them
November 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Someone needs to deal with them
The cat has imagined two dimensional mice which have somehow made their way into the space between the carpet & the floor and is now performing how he would deal with them, were they actually there.
November 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The cat has imagined two dimensional mice which have somehow made their way into the space between the carpet & the floor and is now performing how he would deal with them, were they actually there.
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You can preorder As If the US version now. Out in June 2026 with FSG us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
November 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
You can preorder As If the US version now. Out in June 2026 with FSG us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
the sleet in Kent
November 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
the sleet in Kent
I keep asking myself, if I'm not seeing a significant number of the posts I've followed people to see, and seeing a lot of stuff I haven't signed up to see, then why am I stil here?
November 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I keep asking myself, if I'm not seeing a significant number of the posts I've followed people to see, and seeing a lot of stuff I haven't signed up to see, then why am I stil here?
a 1000,000 times yes to this one
November 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
a 1000,000 times yes to this one
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Through the morning mizzle
July 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Through the morning mizzle
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06.15 and the sky is on fire
August 27, 2025 at 6:06 AM
06.15 and the sky is on fire
BlueSky isn't showing me @janerushtonart.bsky.social's posts anymore, so I thought I'd catch up on some of them--
November 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
BlueSky isn't showing me @janerushtonart.bsky.social's posts anymore, so I thought I'd catch up on some of them--