Signs of Life

A startling look at where our current obsession with having it all might lead us.I re-read this shortly before going into hospital. Probably not a good idea in some respects, but the central theme of transformation had resonance...

Like The Course of the Heart, Signs of Life is a study of damaged-yet-never-unsympathetic people's attempts to escape told in lush-yet-never-purple prose, but whereas the former feels a bit overly vague at times, this one is always focused and purposeful.
The sci-fi elements are quite restrained, and only really feature in one of Harrison's many excellently-realized images. Like every component of the book, they serves its themes and characters without any degree of frivolity.
How this man's renown isn't at least equal to that of Margaret Atwood I'll never understand.