Currently reading (when I need a break from Viriconium): The Killing Hills by Chris Offutt. Been a fan of his since his first story collection, Kentucky Straight, in the 1990s.📚
@michaelsmanley Viriconium was good but tough to read. Which edition do you have? I'm planning to re-read the stories in the order published instead of faux-chronological that's in most compilations.
@miljko I"m reading the omnibus edition. I don't think the order matters, but you can see the changes in Harrison's language between books, and sometimes he's a bit much. I struggle with Harrison. I finished The Kefahuchi Tract trilogy recently after reading The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again and sometimes I wonder if he ever writes about anything other than obliquely.
@michaelsmanley He doesn't, I don't think, but that's part of the… charm? I started with Light — which I loved — shortly after it came out, slogged through Viriconium promising myself I'll re-reread it, then Nova Swing flowed nicely but I don't know if it was because of its clarity or because the more baroque parts of Viriconium acted like training grounds. The Sunken Land… is on my list for next year, as is the last part of Kefahuchi Tract, so we'll see.
@miljko I appreciated what he did in the Kefahuci Tract books, mutating various kinds of crime stories. Harrison isn't the only New Wave author I struggle with. Moorcock, Ballard, Crowley, even Le Guin sometimes, I can find as intractable as any High Modernist.