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# The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again: Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2020

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    More Signs of Life
  

*by P***Z on Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2020*

A new M. John Harrison novel is always an event for me.  It’s been eight years since his last novel and while we’ve had two chapbooks and a new story collection since then, it’s been a while since those came out.  As great as they were, they just didn’t fill the need that a new novel fills.  As it turns out, one of those chapbooks forms the basis for the new novel.SPOILER ALERT:Don’t read this unless you’ve already read the book and want to see what another reader thought.  If you haven’t read it and think you need to look it up first, you don’t.  Just buy it.*The Sunken Land Begins To Rise Again* is the sum of two parts, equal in length and similar in intent.  The two parts are the abovementioned chapbook story “The 4th Domain” (2014) and, as near as I can tell, an unpublished story (let’s call it “Deep Roads”) that Harrison decided to merge into an expanded “The 4th Domain” rather than publish on its own.  In this, and in other important ways, it parallels Harrison’s earlier *Signs of Life* (Isobel vs. Victoria and Mick vs. Shaw).  A serious critical review of the new work would probably go back and compare the two titles, but I won’t bore you with that here.If you’ve read “The 4th Domain” you know that it was supremely weird and even though it wrapped itself up on one level, it left you wanting more on another.  The missing piece of the conclusion was a part of the story’s intended effect, of course, so the risk Harrison took was giving us the more that we thought we wanted.  No one should be surprised that what we got was his idea of more rather than ours.“Deep Roads” also falls into the Weird Tales category and I wouldn’t’ve minded reading it by itself.  A youngish woman moves from London to a small town to take possession of her late mother’s house.  The town ends up being Harrison’s take on Innsmouth, with several glimpses of fishy hands and other hints of strangeness.  We’re not sure at the end whether Victoria truly sees what she sees in her backyard or if it’s dream/delusion.  Whatever it is, it’s an unexpected turn from what I expected.  It’s a fantasy ending and if it was in the original, maybe Harrison felt it didn’t pack enough punch to stand on its own.Combining the two stories gives “Deep Roads” more depth but it also dilutes the weirdness of “The 4th Domain”.  The result is still satisfying and while Shaw does get his act together by the story’s end, we are left wondering what he’ll find when he goes looking for Victoria.  Remember, he also drove off feeling better at the end of “The 4th Domain” but his future seemed a little brighter there than it does in *The Sunken Land Begins To Rise Again*.Harrison is at his best recording other people’s observations, no matter how inaccurate those observations really are.  I believe many of these were collected from things overheard in public spaces, and they are great attention-getters when placed into their new context.  I’m not sure I know people who actually talk about things this way but it makes for a great read.  Victoria’s emails to Shaw were my favorite.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Strange brew
  

*by P***N on Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2023*

Have you ever read a book you found impossible to rate with conventional stars? You loved it but it irritated you. You couldn't put it down but you were reluctant to pick it up again. You know you'll think long about it but you really don't want to think about it anymore. You want to recommend it to your friends but you're afraid they'll hate you for it. It creeps into your dreams but it's rather like a dream itself--one of those clinging ones you're desperate to wake from--but once you do wake you can't wait to go back to sleep again. You give up and rate it five stars anyway because it's special and should be paid attention to but impossible to summarize with any coherence because plot happens but not in conventional ways and it really won't be everybody's cup of tea, although many cups of tea are consumed in the novel. It's a great swirling cup of many brews, many liquids, actually, that has you asking, "What the hell am I drinking?"

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Two bystanders and none of the explication which we never get in real life anyway
  

*by J***A on Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2021*

I just read M John Harrison's "The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again." It's like you're reading a book about two minor characters in some other book, and the other book has this massive amount of intrigue and a globe-spanning catastrophe, but this is just two depressed people who just barely appear in the first three chapters of that book, and then this book ends. Which is great. There’s a real avoidance of informative exposition but there’s tons of internal perspective on the characters, who can’t seem to form clear ideas of themselves because they’re both a bit detached and largely alienated from what they’re supposed to be. It’s pretty much an example of how all of us are experiencing things like global climate collapse,  the failure of capitalism to respond constructively to catastrophe, the endless war against the equatorial regions by the north, etc. It’s a brief biography of bystanders with a few notes on the incomprehensible horror that is always building behind us.

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