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M. John Harrison


Born
in Warwickshire, The United Kingdom
July 26, 1945

Genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy


aka Gabriel King (with Jane Johnson)

Michael John Harrison, known for publication purposes primarily as M. John Harrison, is an English author and literary critic. His work includes the Viriconium sequence of novels and short stories, Climbers, and the Kefahuchi Tract trilogy, which consists of Light, Nova Swing and Empty Space. ...more

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Cheltenham LitFest, 10.26. Great to chat onstage with, in real life, Gaby Wood, Rebecca Perry & Luke Kennard on the Booker finalists 2026 panel. The electric presence of Elizabeth Strout hangs above us, calling from the great lost continent to the West. For the moment, Marlon James & Douglas Stuart aren’t visible. But we are all here, one way or another. We read & explain. It’s strange to atte

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Average rating: 3.63 · 39,641 ratings · 4,964 reviews · 109 distinct works • Similar authors
Light (Kefahuchi Tract, #1)
3.61 avg rating — 7,085 ratings — published 2002 — 38 editions
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Viriconium (Viriconium, #1-4)
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3.83 avg rating — 2,759 ratings — published 2000 — 26 editions
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Nova Swing (Kefahuchi Tract...
3.63 avg rating — 2,407 ratings — published 2006 — 33 editions
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The Sunken Land Begins to R...
3.39 avg rating — 2,229 ratings — published 2020 — 16 editions
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The End of Everything
2.88 avg rating — 2,553 ratings — published 2026 — 8 editions
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The Pastel City (Viriconium...
3.77 avg rating — 1,935 ratings — published 1971 — 25 editions
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The Centauri Device
3.36 avg rating — 1,902 ratings — published 1974 — 3 editions
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The Course of the Heart
3.58 avg rating — 1,484 ratings — published 1992 — 21 editions
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Empty Space: A Haunting (Ke...
3.82 avg rating — 1,138 ratings — published 2012 — 23 editions
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A Storm of Wings (Viriconiu...
3.75 avg rating — 684 ratings — published 1980 — 10 editions
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Series by M. John Harrison

Light Nova Swing Empty Space: A Haunting
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The Pastel City A Storm of Wings The Floating Gods Viriconium Nights
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“Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.”
― M. John Harrison, Things That Never Happen
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“Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and on ambushing you, presumably until you die.”
― M. John Harrison, Signs of Life
tags: loss, memory
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“Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna — the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation.”
― M. John Harrison, The Course of the Heart
tags: budapest, cities
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Topics Mentioning This Author

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SciFi and Fantasy...: What else are you reading in December 2009? 72 272 Feb 17, 2010 10:30AM  
Beyond Reality: Nominations for June! 18 95 Mar 25, 2010 07:38AM  
Beyond Reality: Nominations for July! 9 74 Apr 29, 2010 10:03AM  
Beyond Reality: Welcome to May! 3 42 May 02, 2010 11:28AM  
Beyond Reality: Welcome to June! 1 31 Jun 01, 2010 09:43AM  
Beyond Reality: This topic has been closed to new comments. What are you reading in June 2010? 83 92 Jul 01, 2010 07:26AM  
Beyond Reality: Welcome to July! 1 33 Jul 01, 2010 07:57AM  
Beyond Reality: 2010-07 LIGHT - finished reading (spoilers) 17 47 Jul 17, 2010 10:14AM  


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