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About the Author

British Pbk Original - Gollancz (2007)

Light
On the barren surface of an asteroid, located deep in the galaxy beneath the unbearable light of the Kefahuchi Tract, lie three objects: an abandoned spacecraft, a pair of bone dice covered with strange symbols, and a human skeleton.
What they are and what they mean are the mysteries explored and unwrapped in Light, M. John Harrison’s triumphant return to science fiction.
‘Light is brilliant’ Iain M. Banks
‘An amazing book: not just a triumphant return to science fiction, but an injection of style and content that will light up the genre’ Michael Marshall, author of The Intruders and The Straw Men
‘Light is the leanest, meanest space opera since Nova. Visually acute, shot through with wonder and horror in equal measure… prepare to get lost in the K-tract. You won’t regret it’ Alastair Reynolds, author of Revelation Space and The Prefect

British Pbk Original - Gollancz (2005)

Anima
ANIMA When a writer like M. John Harrison looks at love, you know the results will be unusual and compelling, evocative and imaginative, dark, depressing and transcendent. Here in one volume are his two classic love stories, Signs Of Life and The Course Of The Heart, fantastical romances, quests, thrillers - and wholely M. John Harrison. ..
ANIMA Love will never be the same again.
‘His books are fictions of elegant delirium, dark and transcendent by turns ... exquisitely wrought and brilliantly imagined, erotic, chilling, visionary: the work of a great imaginer and an extraordinary writer’ Clive Barker
‘The complex but unhesitant shuttle of Harrison’s overlapping narrative draws us remorselessy towards the revelation of a great secret’ lain Sinclair
‘Harrison’s imagination is merciless. His fiction is a scalpel slicing through the skin of the world to make dissections both strange and familiar ... putting him in the company of Ian McEwan and Peter Carey, but he is grittier than Carey and wittier than McEwan’ Times Literary Supplement

British Pbk Original - Gollancz Millenium (2000)

Viriconium
Viriconium: the Pastel City was the last bastion of the civilised world, where Queen Methvet Nian ruled supreme.
In Viriconium, the young men whistle to one another all night long as they go about their deadly games, if you wake suddenly, you might hear footsteps running, or an urgent sigh. After a minute or two, the whistles move away in the direction of the Tinmarket or the Margarethestrasse. The next day, some lordling is discovered in the gutter with his throat cut. Who can tell fantasy from reality, magic from illusion, hero from villain, man from monster... in Viriconium?
'In the best tradition of the finest writing, Viriconium is universal and particular together. It is the ultimate city, the very essence of what we understand such a collection of buildings, thoroughfares, monuments, institutions, concerns, inhabitants, lives and fates to be.' Iain Banks
'exemplary fictions of unease shot through with poetic insight and most beautifully written.' Angela Carter
'Viriconium is a scintillating kaleidoscope of cities.' Observer
'Beautifully written and disconcertingly haunting.' Time Out
'The fantasy is grounded in M. John Harrison's sense of reality... It is lifelike. It is also written in the kind of prose which, as when you tap a nail on a crystal glass, never rings false.' Guardian
'A witty and truly imaginative writer.' Literary Review

British Pbk Original - Gollancz (2000)

Travel Arrangements
M. John Harrison's first book of short stories since The Ice Monkey shows this brilliantly original writer at the height of his powers.
Peter Ebert, obsessed by the record of a 1930s journey through an unknown country, is rescued by a woman whose face is a map. Two holiday-makers known only as Jack and Jill return from Tenerife haunted by the trinket-seller who has brought them together. Meanwhile a refugee from the East encounters fear and loathing in the bars and patisseries of Soho, and a young man undertakes a series of random rail journeys decided by the fall of the Tarot cards.
These stories - in which sex is a choice of transport, travel an interior project, and the world never quite what it seems - explore the undependable boundary between the desired and the possible, the real and the transcendent, discovering humour, horror and a kind of wry glamour in the ordinary.
Praise For The Ice Monkey
'Stylish, accomplished, evocative short stories, exemplary fictions of unease shot through with poetic insight and most beautifully written' Angela Carter
'His fiction is a scalpel slicing through the skin of the world to make dissections both strange and disturbingly familiar. This collection puts him in the company of Ian McEwan and Peter Carey, but he is grittier than Carey and wittier than McEwan' Times Literary Supplement

Signs of Life
See Review by John Baker

About The Author
M. John Harrison was born in 1945. His first story appeared in 1966, and he subsequently became closely involved in the magazine New Worlds during the late sixties, when it was under the editorship of Michael Moorcock. As well as writing stories he also wrote criticism for the magazine, and spent some time as its literary editor. His first published novel was The Committed Men (1971). The Pastel City was the first of his books about Viriconium, and he revisited the city several times during the eighties. His fifth book, In Viriconium, was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize and his sixth, Climbers, won the Boardman Tasker Award in 1989. In 1999 he received the Richard Evans Award. He has written for several periodicals including the Spectator, and currently reviews new fiction for the TLS. M. John Harrison lives in South London.

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Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

Light (Gollancz Pbk, 2007) Pbk Nov 07

Anima (Gollancz Pbk, 2005)

Viriconium (Gollancz Millenium Pbk, 2000)

Travel Arrangements Short Stories (Gollancz Pbk, 2000)

Signs of Life ( 1997)

The Course of the Heart ( 1992)

The Luck in the Head ( 1991) with Ian Miller

Climbers ( 1989)

Viricorium Nights ( 1984)

The Ice Monkey and Other Stories ( 1983)

In Viriconium ( 1982)

A Storm of Wings ( 1980)

The Machine in Shaft Ten and Other Stories ( 1975)

The Centauri Device ( 1974) Gollancz Millenium Pbk Jul 00

The Pastel City ( 1971)

The Committed Men ( 1971)