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M. John Harrison

Author of Light

81+ Works 8,479 Members 233 Reviews 39 Favorited

About the Author

Includes the names: Joyce Churchill, M. John Harrison, by M. John Harrison, M・ジョン ハリスン

Series

Works by M. John Harrison

Light (2002) 2,004 copies
Viriconium: "The Pastel City", "A Storm of Wings", "In Viriconium", "Viriconium Nights" (1988) 1,146 copies
The Centauri Device (1974) 704 copies
Nova Swing (2006) 655 copies
The Pastel City (1971) 516 copies
The Wild Road (1997) 453 copies
The Course of the Heart (1992) 332 copies
The Golden Cat (1998) 288 copies
Empty Space: A Haunting (2012) 271 copies
Things That Never Happen (2002) 221 copies
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again (2020) 215 copies
A Storm of Wings (1980) 178 copies
In Viriconium (1983) 161 copies
Signs of Life (1997) 161 copies
Viriconium Nights (1984) 152 copies
Climbers (1989) 147 copies
The Committed Men (1971) 106 copies
You Should Come with Me Now (2017) 97 copies
The Ice Monkey (1983) 85 copies
Anima (1992) 76 copies
The Machine in Shaft Ten and Other Stories (1975) 72 copies
Travel Arrangements (1983) 61 copies
The Luck in the Head (1991) 51 copies
The Knot Garden (2000) 43 copies
Viriconium: "In Viriconium", "Viriconium Nights" (1988) 37 copies
Nonesuch (2001) 22 copies
Wish I Was Here (2023) 22 copies
Settling the World: Selected Stories (2020) 16 copies
Parietal Games: Critical Writings by and on M. John Harrison (2005) 14 copies
Settling the World: Selected Stories 1970-2020 (2020) 12 copies
Wish I Was Here 11 copies
Tourism 9 copies
Licht - Die Trilogie: Drei Romane (2014) 9 copies
The 4th Domain (2014) 9 copies
Suicide Coast (1999) 8 copies
The Great God Pan [short fiction] 8 copies
Settling the World: Selected Stories 1970-2020 7 copies
Cave & Julia (2013) 6 copies
Anima [short story] (1992) 5 copies
Doe Lea (2019) 5 copies
The New Rays (1982) 5 copies
The Lamia and Lord Cromis [short story] (1971) 4 copies
The Luck in the Head [short story] (1984) 4 copies
Small Heirlooms [short fiction] (1987) 4 copies
Isobel Avens Returns to Stepney in the Spring [short fiction] (2017) 4 copies
A Young Man's Journey to Viriconium [short story] (1985) 3 copies
Lamia Mutable {story} 3 copies
Egnaro {story} 3 copies
Getting Out of There 3 copies
The Dancer from the Dance [short story] (1985) 3 copies
Strange Great Sins {story} (1983) 3 copies
La città del lontanissimo futuro {story} 3 copies
The Dead [short fiction] 3 copies
Urządzenie Centauryjskie (2021) 2 copies
The Neon Heart Murders (2000) 2 copies
The Gift {story} (1988) 2 copies
Gifco [novelette] (1992) 2 copies
The East {story} (1999) 2 copies
The Horse of Iron and How We Can Know It and Be Changed by It Forever [short story] (1989) 2 copies
I Did It (1997) 2 copies
Settling The World {story} (2020) 2 copies
Lords of Misrule {story} (1984) 2 copies
English Heritage (2021) 2 copies
Viriconium Knights [short story] (1981) 2 copies
Preparativos de viaje [Próxima aparición] (1900) 1 copy
Lo spazio deserto (Urania) (Italian Edition) 1 copy
Black Houses [short story] (1998) 1 copy
[Viriconium : Pastel City', 'Storm of Wings', 'in Viriconium', 'Viriconium Nights… (2000) 1 copy
Running down [short fiction 1 copy
Visions of Monad {story} 1 copy
Keep Smiling with Great Minutes [short story] (2008) 1 copy
Empty [novelette] (1995) 1 copy
Seven Guesses of the Heart [short story] (1996) 1 copy
Science & The Arts [short story] (1999) 1 copy
Old Women [short story] (1983) 1 copy
A Literature of Comfort {story} 1 copy
The Flesh Circle {story} 1 copy
The Nash Circuit {story} 1 copy
The Ash Circus {story} 1 copy
Entertaining Angels Unawares 1 copy
ヴィリコニウム パステル都市の物語 1 copy
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Associated Works

The Chrysalids (1955) — Introduction, some editions — 4,591 copies
Again, Dangerous Visions (1972) — Contributor — 971 copies
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (2011) — Contributor — 796 copies
Prime Evil: New Stories by the Masters of Modern Horror (1988) — Contributor — 583 copies
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection (2005) — Contributor — 525 copies
The New Weird (2008) — Contributor — 514 copies
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2000) — Contributor — 507 copies
Poe's Children: The New Horror: An Anthology (2008) — Contributor — 447 copies
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: First Annual Collection (1986) — Contributor — 310 copies
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection (1991) — Contributor — 309 copies
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection (1993) — Contributor — 209 copies
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Second Annual Collection (1987) — Contributor — 198 copies
Conjunctions: 39, The New Wave Fabulists (2002) — Contributor — 197 copies
The Golden Barge (1979) — Introduction, some editions — 192 copies
Strange Dreams (1993) — Contributor — 185 copies
Sisters of the Night (1995) — Contributor — 168 copies
My Favorite Fantasy Story (2000) — Contributor — 165 copies
Elsewhere: Tales of Fantasy (1982) — Contributor — 143 copies
Basilisk (1980) — Contributor — 133 copies
Book of the Dead 2: Still Dead (1954) 131 copies
Little Deaths (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 125 copies
The New Nature of the Catastrophe (1993) — Contributor — 119 copies
The Shimmering Door (1997) — Contributor — 117 copies
New Worlds: An Anthology (1983) — Contributor — 105 copies
The Big Book of Modern Fantasy (2020) — Contributor — 103 copies
Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 (2005) — Contributor — 98 copies
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Eight (1890) — Contributor — 96 copies
Metahorror (1988) — Contributor — 89 copies
Other Edens (1987) — Contributor — 83 copies
New Worlds Quarterly 2 (1971) — Contributor — 77 copies
Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales: An Anthology (2017) — Contributor — 70 copies
New Worlds Quarterly 1 (1971) — Contributor — 69 copies
Tarot Tales (1989) — Contributor — 58 copies
The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVIII (1990) — Contributor — 56 copies
Best SF Stories from New Worlds 6 (1970) — Contributor — 55 copies
Best New Horror 4 (1993) — Contributor — 53 copies
New Worlds Quarterly 3 (1972) — Contributor — 52 copies
The Weight of Words (2017) — Contributor — 52 copies
New Worlds Quarterly 4 (1972) — Contributor — 52 copies
Strangeness (1977) — Contributor — 52 copies
New Worlds 8 (1975) — Contributor — 51 copies
Quark/3 (1971) — Contributor — 51 copies
New Worlds 6 (1973) — Contributor — 50 copies
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series X (1982) — Contributor — 47 copies
Best SF Stories from New Worlds 8 (1974) — Contributor — 45 copies
The Road to Science Fiction #5: The British Way (1998) 45 copies
New Writings in SF-12 (1968) — Contributor — 44 copies
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XI (1983) — Contributor — 44 copies
New Worlds 5 (1973) — Contributor — 43 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 — 37 copies
Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy of and for Our Time (1984) — Contributor — 36 copies
Best SF Stories from New Worlds 7 (1963) — Contributor — 36 copies
Celebration: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association (2008) — Contributor — 34 copies
New Worlds 9 (1975) — Contributor — 33 copies
The Giant Book of Terror (1994) — Contributor — 20 copies
The New improved sun: An anthology of utopian S-F (1975) — Contributor — 20 copies
We, Robots (2010) — Contributor — 19 copies
An Unreliable Guide to London (2016) — Contributor — 17 copies
Intensive Scare (1990) — Contributor — 16 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1974, Vol. 46, No. 1 (1974) — 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
Best British Short Stories 2018 (2018) — Contributor — 7 copies
Escalofríos (1901) — Contributor — 6 copies
The Profession of Science Fiction: SF Writers on Their Craft and Ideas (Insights) (1992) — Contributor — 6 copies

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Light: A Novel (Kefahuchi Tract) by M. John Harrison
I'm torn on giving this 3 stars vs. 4. I think it might in some sense "deserve" 4 stars, while I'm leaning heavily toward giving it 3 stars. I read this in often short chunks in between doing other things, getting interrupted, etc... an especially bad way to read this particular book, given the intertwined storylines, the number of main characters you're therefore rapidly introduced to, and their convergence (and clues, and whatnot scattered along the way).

But... in my reading, I think 3 stars, even if in a perfect world I'd give it 4; so 3 stars it is.… (more)
 
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The Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read
Shirley Jackson Award
World Fantasy Award
SF Site Reader's Choice
British Fantasy Award
SF Site Editor's Choice
John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
Philip K. Dick Award
British Science Fiction Association Award
Locus Recommended Reading
Arthur C. Clarke Award
Otherwise Award
David Pringle's Best 100 Science Fiction Novels
Fantasy: The 100 Best Books
David Pringle's Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels
Bloomsbury 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels
Horror: Another 100 Best Books
Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award
The 100 best books of the 21st century by The Guardian
Goldsmiths Prize
Tähtivaeltaja-palkinto
Top 10 strangest alien invasion novels
Le Prix du Cafard cosmique

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Neil Gaiman Introduction
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Works
81
Also by
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Members
8,479
Popularity
#2,840
Rating
½ 3.7
Reviews
233
ISBNs
169
Languages
10
Favorited
39

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