The Bodhisattva

A couple days ago, after going through the ordeal of reading the first chapter of the Hunters of Dune (see last blog entry), a FBS forum member helped restore balance in the universe by pointing to a post by Jonathan Strahan at Notes from the Coode Street, which informs us that a new M. John Harrison book will be published in November, the sequel, to Light!

The synopsis for Nova Swing:

“It is some time after Ed Chianese’s trip into the Kefahuchi Tract. A major industry of the Halo is now tourism. The Tract has begun to expand and change, but, more problematically, parts of it have also begun to fall to earth, piecemeal, on the Beach planets. We are in a city, perhaps on New Venusport or Motel Splendido: next to the city is the event site, the zone, from out of which pour new, inexplicable artefacts, organisms and escapes of living algorithm - the wrong physics loose in the universe. They can cause plague and change. An entire department of the local police, Site Crime, exists to stop them being imported into the city by adventurers, entradistas, and the men known as ‘travel agents’, profiteers who can manage - or think they can manage -the bad physics, skewed geographies and psychic onslaughts of the event site. But now a new class of semi-biological artefact is finding its way out of the site, and this may be more than anyone can handle.”

If you haven’t read or heard of Light, go and correct yourself!

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