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M. John Harrison

Author of Light

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Works by M. John Harrison

Light (2002) 2,039 copies
The Centauri Device (1974) 713 copies
Nova Swing (2006) 672 copies
The Pastel City (1971) 543 copies
The Wild Road (1997) 453 copies
The Course of the Heart (1992) 341 copies
The Golden Cat (1998) 292 copies
Empty Space: A Haunting (2012) 282 copies
Things That Never Happen (2002) 223 copies
A Storm of Wings (1980) 184 copies
In Viriconium (1983) 164 copies
Signs of Life (1997) 163 copies
Viriconium Nights (1984) 155 copies
Climbers (1989) 152 copies
The Committed Men (1971) 109 copies
You Should Come with Me Now (2017) 101 copies
The Ice Monkey (1983) 89 copies
Anima (1992) 76 copies
Travel Arrangements (1983) 62 copies
The Luck in the Head (1991) 52 copies
Wish I Was Here (2023) 45 copies
The Knot Garden (2000) 44 copies
Nonesuch (2001) 22 copies
The 4th Domain (2014) 10 copies
Tourism 9 copies
Suicide Coast (1999) 8 copies
Cave & Julia (2013) 7 copies
Doe Lea (2019) 6 copies
The New Rays (1982) 5 copies
Anima [short story] (1992) 5 copies
Urządzenie Centauryjskie (2021) 4 copies
Egnaro {story} 3 copies
English Heritage (2021) 2 copies
I Did It (1997) 2 copies
The Gift {story} (1988) 2 copies
The East {story} (1999) 2 copies
Lords of Misrule {story} (1984) 2 copies
The Neon Heart Murders (2000) 2 copies
Gifco [novelette] (1992) 2 copies
Empty [novelette] (1995) 1 copy

Associated Works

The Chrysalids (1955) — Introduction, some editions — 4,731 copies
Again, Dangerous Visions (1972) — Contributor — 985 copies
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (2011) — Contributor — 815 copies
Prime Evil: New Stories by the Masters of Modern Horror (1988) — Contributor — 598 copies
The New Weird (2008) — Contributor — 520 copies
Poe's Children: The New Horror: An Anthology (2008) — Contributor — 458 copies
The Golden Barge (1979) — Introduction, some editions — 198 copies
Conjunctions: 39, The New Wave Fabulists (2002) — Contributor — 197 copies
Strange Dreams (1993) — Contributor — 186 copies
Sisters of the Night (1995) — Contributor — 168 copies
My Favorite Fantasy Story (2000) — Contributor — 166 copies
Elsewhere: Tales of Fantasy (1982) — Contributor — 143 copies
Basilisk (1980) — Contributor — 135 copies
Little Deaths (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 131 copies
The New Nature of the Catastrophe (1993) — Contributor — 123 copies
The Shimmering Door (1997) — Contributor — 117 copies
The Big Book of Modern Fantasy (2020) — Contributor — 108 copies
New Worlds: An Anthology (1983) — Contributor — 108 copies
Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 (2005) — Contributor — 99 copies
Metahorror (1988) — Contributor — 91 copies
Other Edens (1987) — Contributor — 83 copies
New Worlds Quarterly 2 (1971) — Contributor — 78 copies
New Worlds Quarterly 1 (1971) — Contributor — 72 copies
Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales: An Anthology (2017) — Contributor — 70 copies
Tarot Tales (1989) — Contributor — 60 copies
The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVIII (1990) — Contributor — 58 copies
Best SF Stories from New Worlds 6 (1970) — Contributor — 56 copies
Best New Horror 4 (1993) — Contributor — 54 copies
New Worlds Quarterly 3 (1972) — Contributor — 54 copies
New Worlds Quarterly 4 (1972) — Contributor — 53 copies
The Weight of Words (2017) — Contributor — 53 copies
Strangeness (1977) — Contributor — 52 copies
Quark/3 (1971) — Contributor — 52 copies
New Worlds 8 (1975) — Contributor — 51 copies
New Worlds 6 (1973) — Contributor — 51 copies
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series X (1982) — Contributor — 48 copies
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XI (1983) — Contributor — 46 copies
New Worlds 5 (1973) — Contributor — 45 copies
Best SF Stories from New Worlds 8 (1974) — Contributor — 45 copies
New Writings in SF-12 (1968) — Contributor — 44 copies
The Best New Horror: Volume Six (1995) — Contributor — 43 copies
New Writings in SF-14 (1969) — Contributor — 42 copies
New Writings in SF-13 (1968) — Contributor — 41 copies
Other Edens 2 (1988) — Contributor — 39 copies
New Worlds 7 (1974) — Contributor — 38 copies
Best SF Stories from New Worlds 7 (1963) — Contributor — 37 copies
New Worlds 9 (1975) — Contributor — 33 copies
We, Robots (2010) — Contributor — 23 copies
The New improved sun: An anthology of utopian S-F (1975) — Contributor — 20 copies
The Giant Book of Terror (1994) — Contributor — 20 copies
An Unreliable Guide to London (2016) — Contributor — 17 copies
Intensive Scare (1990) — Contributor — 16 copies
Arc 1.1: The Future Always Wins (2012) — Contributor — 15 copies
The Best British Short Stories 2014 (2014) — Contributor — 14 copies
Polder: A Festschrift for John Clute and Judith Clute (2006) — Contributor — 13 copies
TLS Short Stories (2003) — Contributor — 12 copies
The Nature of the Catastrophe (1971) — Contributor — 9 copies
Escalofríos (1989) — Contributor — 8 copies
Best British Short Stories 2018 (2018) — Contributor — 7 copies

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THE DEEP ONES: "The New Rays" by M. John Harrison in The Weird Tradition (December 2021)

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Author is definitely very smart, very interesting weird concepts. It makes sense that the somewhat distant future (& outer space) would be so strange that it would be hard for us to understand it. But it made this hard to read. He just drops you right in with the jargon w/o explaining it so you have to figure it out yourself by context which took about half the book. Brunner is like that too, but this was even more difficult. Didn't finish it feeling satisfied w/plot. But willing to re-read
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dtscheme | 60 other reviews | Jan 1, 2024 |
A thoroughly entertaining read and I could see it being a great Cohen Brothers or Wes Anderson movie, but after the heady heights and lyrical experimentation of A Storm of Wings, this felt like a bit of disappointing a crash to earth.
 
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RatGrrrl | 7 other reviews | Dec 20, 2023 |
One of the most singularly strange and beautifully written books I've ever read. Somewhere between a fever dream and poetry, while remaining immensely readable science fantasy.

I genuinely wish the other Viriconium books were written in the same manner.
 
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RatGrrrl | 5 other reviews | Dec 20, 2023 |
Truly spectacular and strange science fantasy!

The Pale City is wonderful, but A Storm of Wings is a poetic fever dream of sheer brilliance, which makes all the really great stuff that follows feel a little disappointing. But, this is all bloody brilliant and the first big work I've read the text of in many, many years due to my conditions, which was tough, but absolutely worth it!
 
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