M. John Harrison's "All the Roary Night"

Another great post from Harrison, that you must check out.In part:Substitute imagination for exhaustiveness, and inventiveness for research. As a reader I'm not interested in a "fully worked out" world. I'm not interested in "self consistency". I don't care what kind of underpants Iberian troops wore in 1812, or if I do I can find out about it for myself. I don't want the facts about the Silk Road or the collapse of the Greenland Colony, sugared up & presented in three-volumes as an imaginary world. I don't want to be talked through your enthusiasm for costume. I don't want be talked through anything.I especially like the bit about strangeness later on because that's what I'm not getting enough of lately. I've never really bought into China Mieville's ideas on escapism...until now, when I feel like that's 90 percent of what we're getting at the moment--a new conservatism.Jeff