Read: The End of Everything by M John Harrison ★★★★ 📚
'Summer. I stood in a long shallow chalk valley half a mile from the sea, listening to the sound of the waves – the sound waves! – amplified by acoustic lensing conditions in the absolutely still air, and came to the inescapable conclusion: the iGhetti are only a mirage. We wait for them to reveal them-selves, forgetting what has revealed itself daily since they came. They did not arrive from the astral plane: they arrived by reconfiguring it. They are only a refraction of something else in the universe, something we can't know about because it's the other side of some horizon. Perhaps we are too?'
Grabbed from the review pull quotes: 'baffling, confounding, haunting, dreamlike' all resonate. A strange book where noting is explained. The 'aliens', inexplicable & might not even know they are at war. Everything is falling apart but folk still go down to the coast for a break.
@johnjohnston reading that one now
@ndreas now I’ve finished I am listening to this podcast episode with the author. Cleared up some confusion on my part.
@johnjohnston that’s a good tip. I didn’t really liked it as much as I thought I would. I found it a bit repetitive.