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#182 Wish it was here: Last Letters from Hav (1985) by Jan Morris

#182 Wish it was here: Last Letters from Hav (1985) by Jan Morris

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The definitive travel guide to a place that never existed

Like J. G. Ballard's Crash - featured in episode 149 - Last Letters From Hav is another novel which might challenge or expand definitions of science fiction. Originally published in 1985, the book is a work of veteran British travel writer Jan Morris, who died in 2020. Sitting comfortably alongside her books on cities like Oxford, Venice, and New York, it is a travelogue - the difference being that Hav is a fictional place. But what is it that makes Hav such a strangely believable locale? And what qualifies it as science fiction?

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