M. John Harrison
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Michael John Harrison (born July 26, 1945, Warwickshire), is a British science fiction author, fantasy author and literary fiction author, who writes as "M. John Harrison".
Biography and writing career
Harrison's first story was published in 1966. From 1968 to 1975 he was literary editor for the magazine New Worlds.A keen rock climber, he wrote the novel Climbers (1989), which won the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.
Harrison's other books include the Viriconium sequence of fantasies, Light, a science fiction novel, and a short story collection, Things That Never Happen.
Harrison is a regular fiction reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian and the Daily Telegraph.
Works
Fiction
Standalone novels
- The Committed Men (1971)
- The Centauri Device (1975)
- Climbers (1989, winner of the Boardman Tasker Memorial Award)
- The Course of the Heart (1992)
- Signs of Life (1996)
- Light (2002, co-winner of the 2002 James Tiptree, Jr. Award)
- Anima (2005, an omnibus edition of Signs of Life and The Course of the Heart).
Standalone collections
- The Machine in Shaft Ten (1975)
- The Ice Monkey (1985)
- Travel Arrangements (2000)
- Things That Never Happen (2002, omnibus edition of The Ice Monkey and Travel Arrangements, with the addition of some previously uncollected material)
Viriconium sequence
Novels
- The Pastel City (1971)
- A Storm of Wings (1980)
- In Viriconium (USA edition The Floating Gods, 1982. Nominated for the Guardian Fiction Prize)
Collections and omnibus
- Viriconium Nights (1984, US edition. Contains a shorter version of the novel "In Viriconium")
- Viriconium Nights (1985, UK Edition. Drops several stories, including the short version of "In Viriconium", adds two more recent stories and features revised texts)
- Viriconium (1988, omnibus of short stories plus long version of In Viriconium with introduction by Iain Banks)
- Viriconium (2000, omnibus compilation of all of the Viriconium novels and the UK edition of Viriconium Nights with introduction by Neil Gaiman)
Graphic novel adaptations
- The Luck in the Head (1991, adaptatation of the short story of the same name, illustrated by Ian Miller)
- Viriconium (German language adaptation and translation of "In Viriconium", illustrated by Dieter Jüdt)
Short fiction in
- “The Ash Circus” (1969)
- “The Nash Circuit” (1969)
- “The Flesh Circle” (1971)
These do not appear in any of Harrison's own collections. However, they do appear in The Nature of the Castrophe and New Nature of the Catastrophe anthologies. Harrison also collaborated with Moorcock on Jerry Cornelius comic strip illustrateed by Mal Dean. The comic strips also appear in the afore-mentioned anthology.Collaborative fiction
Tag the Cat
- The Wild Road (1997, in collaboration with Jane Johnson, as "Gabriel King")
- The Golden Cat 1998, in collaboration with Jane Johnson, as Gabriel King)
- The Knot Garden (2000, in collaboration with Jane Johnson, as Gabriel King)
Standalone
- Nonesuch (2001, in collaboration with Jane Johnson, as Gabriel King)
Nonfiction
- Fawcett on Rock (1987, ghostwritten autobiography of legendary British rock climber, as by "Mike Harrison")
- Parietal Games (2005, edited by Mark Bould and Michelle Reid, compiling Harrison's reviews and essays from 1968 to 2004, it also contains eight essays on Harrison's fiction by other authors, as well as an interview with the author)
External links
- [mjohnharrison.com] M. John Harrison's official Web site
- [] at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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