M John Harrison in the Guardian

Just what it says on the tin: A profile of M. John Harrison in the Guardian.

"If Ray Bradbury wrote to forestall a future, Harrison says he writes to 'forestall a present'; the militarised capitalism, environmental destruction and short-sighted self-obsession of his imaginary universe are only 'a description of the world we live in'. It's a brutal, soulless world where human beings see the unknowable wonder of the Tract only as a chance to make some money; people visit the 'chop shop' to genetically modify their bodies to look like Marilyn Monroe or grotesquely over-muscled fighters; and the distant war against the aliens is 'your war, to be accessed however it fitted best into your busy schedule'."