SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY

DAVID V BARRETT ROUNDS UP THE LATEST TITLES FROM THE WORLD OF SPECULATIVE AND FANTASTIC FICTION

The Great When Alan Moore Bloomsbury 2024 Hb, 336pp, £20, ISBN 9781526643223 Two very different views of an alternative London, from two very well-known authors. Alan Moore’s The Great When, the first of a trilogy, is set in a 1949 London barely beginning to recover from the War. A socially inept young lad, Dennis Knuckleyard, who works in the grottiest secondhand bookshop imaginable, buys in some early editions of Arthur Machen books – and accidentally buys a book which was never published in our world. If he can’t get it back to the Other London where it came from he could be physically turned inside out. Dennis is helped into the Other London by the artist Austin Osman Spare, who of course straddles all worlds; at one point they’re in…

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