Thursday, January 4, 2018

M. John Harrison's "The Crisis"


My gaydar set off on this one immediately. False positive? Read for yourself (it's a really good short story all on its own). And for those of you like me unfamiliar with "mercuric sulphocyanate" — voilà  pharaoh's serpent!

2 comments:

DCSteve1441 said...

Thanks for sharing this, Tim; it's a very unsettling story. I don't believe your gaydar is off, but that aspect seems very much in the background to me.

Cheers, Steve

Tim said...

oh yes, very much in the background, I agree, though part of the general AIDS-like malaise/maladies