A Middle-aged Man Returns to Viriconium

Viriconium comic, in German, by Dieter Judt

Deep in work-work and in lieu of anything new to say, I'm rehashing this passage from my personal blog. When I discovered "the OSR" 18 months ago, it astounded and pleased me to discover how much influence M John Harrison (or at least his Viriconium sequence) seemed to have over the movement. Mike Harrison's writing has significantly altered my views on literature at least twice in my life.

Ironically, I remember Mike telling me 10 or 15 years ago that h...