{"id":1286,"date":"2009-04-15T23:55:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T04:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2009-04-15T23:56:32","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T04:56:32","slug":"m-john-harrison-recommends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2009\/04\/15\/m-john-harrison-recommends\/","title":{"rendered":"M. John Harrison recommends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ambientehotel.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/15\/some-good-fantasy\/\">Some good fantasy<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>The House on the Borderland, 1908, William Hope Hodgson<\/li>\n<li>The Wind in the Willows, 1908, Kenneth Grahame<\/li>\n<li>The Great Return, 1915, Arthur Machen<\/li>\n<li>From Ritual to Romance, 1920, Jessie L Weston<\/li>\n<li>Nosferatu, 1922, dir FW Murnau<\/li>\n<li>Mr Weston\u2019s Good Wine, 1927, TF Powys<\/li>\n<li>War in Heaven, 1930, Charles Williams<\/li>\n<li>The Green Child, 1935, Herbert Read<\/li>\n<li>At the Mountains of Madness, 1936, HP Lovecraft<\/li>\n<li>At Swim-Two-Birds, 1939, Flann O\u2019Brien<\/li>\n<li>Fantasia, 1940, dir Walt Disney<\/li>\n<li>The Journal of Albion Moonlight, 1941, Kenneth Patchen<\/li>\n<li>That Hideous Strength, 1945, CS Lewis<\/li>\n<li>The Martian Chronicles, 1950, Ray Bradbury<\/li>\n<li>Mazirian the Magician, 1950, Jack Vance<\/li>\n<li>E Pluribus Unicorn, 1953, Theodore Sturgeon<\/li>\n<li>V, 1956, Thomas Pynchon<\/li>\n<li>The Incredible Shrinking Man, 1957, dir Jack Arnold<\/li>\n<li>The Vodi, 1959, John Braine<\/li>\n<li>The Alexandria Quartet, 1957-1960, Lawrence Durrell<\/li>\n<li>A Fine &#038; Private Place, 1960, Peter Beagle<\/li>\n<li>The Stealer of Souls, 1963, Michael Moorcock<\/li>\n<li>The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, 1963, Joan Aiken<\/li>\n<li>I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, 1964, Joanne Greenberg<\/li>\n<li>The Magus, 1966, John Fowles<\/li>\n<li>All Along the Watchtower, 1967, Bob Dylan<\/li>\n<li>Mooncranker\u2019s Gift, 1973, Barry Unsworth<\/li>\n<li>The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, 1974, dir Werner Herzog<\/li>\n<li>Diamond Dogs, 1974, David Bowie<\/li>\n<li>Ritual Animal Disguise, 1977, EC Cawte<\/li>\n<li>Stalker, 1979, dir Andrei Tarkovsky<\/li>\n<li>The Bloody Chamber, 1979, Angela Carter<\/li>\n<li>The Fall of the House of Usher, 1981, dir Jan Svankmajer<\/li>\n<li>Mythago Wood, 1984, Robert Holdstock<\/li>\n<li>Halo Jones, 1984, Alan Moore &#038; Ian Gibson<\/li>\n<li>Rain Dogs, 1985, Tom Waits<\/li>\n<li>Blue Velvet, 1986, dir David Lynch<\/li>\n<li>The Mortmere Stories, 1994, Edward Upward &#038; Christopher Isherwood<\/li>\n<li>Jumping Joan, 1994, dir Petra Freeman<\/li>\n<li>Institute Benjamenta, 1995, dir The Brothers Quay<\/li>\n<li>The Voice of the Fire, 1996, Alan Moore<\/li>\n<li>Lost Highway, 1997, dir David Lynch<\/li>\n<li>Simon Magus, 1999, dir Ben Hopkins<\/li>\n<li>The Dream Archipelago, 1999, Christopher Priest<\/li>\n<li>Under the Skin, 2000, Michel Faber<\/li>\n<li>Ratchet &#038; Clank, 2002, Insomniac Games<\/li>\n<li>The Carpet Makers, 2006, Andreas Eschbach<\/li>\n<li>Peter &#038; the Wolf, 2006, dir Suzie Templetonv\n<li>The Night Buffalo, 2007, Guillermo Arriaga<\/li>\n<li>Night Work, 2008, Thomas Glavinic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nA great list and the best thing is that despite its variety and the hodgepodge of media represented here (books, comics, movies, even videogames) this still looks like a coherent whole, a list created from a (sub?)conscious aesthetic. If I could spot a theme here it&#8217;s of fantasy not as a creator of secondary worlds, independent of the real world, but of fantasy as a creative force playing with our own perceptions of reality. It&#8217;s also interesting to spot the omissions, partially deliberate as Harrison wanted to avoid &#8216;both the Tolkien-boomers and their Dark Other, the Peake \u201ctradition\u201d&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some good fantasy: The House on the Borderland, 1908, William Hope Hodgson The Wind in the Willows, 1908, Kenneth Grahame The Great Return, 1915, Arthur Machen From Ritual to Romance, 1920, Jessie L Weston Nosferatu, 1922, dir FW Murnau Mr Weston\u2019s Good Wine, 1927, TF Powys War in Heaven, 1930, Charles Williams The Green Child, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[688,520],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","tag-m-john-harrison","tag-obsessive-list-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}