A gnostic tale that hits you like a kick in the gut. Harrison's bleak narrative centers around epilepsy, sex, magic, medieval legend, cancer, car crashes, and how badly fantasy can hurt. If you're the kind of reader whose biggest wish is still to get a letter from Hogwarts, or (more topically) to...
When reading this series I felt that#1 Light was amazing and one of the best SF books I have read. Regarding ideas, style and structure, world-building as well as characters.#2 Nova Swing while still high quality with excellent style and ideas, was much weaker regarding plot, characters and it's ...
If you were a climber and were expecting this to be some kind of literary version of The Eiger Sanction, then you'd probably be disappointed. But then, I don't think M. John Harrison would care too much, given that many of the readers of this book were probably expecting it to be a sci-fi masterp...
Captain Truck, son of Annie Truck, is the last of the Centaurans; a humanoid race whom humanity mostly exterminated during a terrible war. What was left of the race fled into the galaxy and intermingled, sometimes breeding with humans.It was thought during the final stages of the war that the Cen...
Ed Chianese, his ears full of the faint far voices of demons, continued to follow Vesicle because he couldn’t think of anything else to do. He was hungry, and faintly embarrassed by himself. After their escape from the Cray sisters, they had wandered about the streets east of Pierpoint until they...
Rain, anyway. At SiteCrime, all the talk was war. The Nastic – allies for a day or two some time in the middle 2400s, but now in possession of new physics and a hybrid cosmology that trumped the rest – were moving out of bases in Delta Carinae. Rumour said that EMC had a n...
I got work in a bookshop, two or three days a week. I lived with a family in Salford (they had an ummarried daughter who worked at the Colgate factory and slept in the room next to mine: at night I could hear her turn over heavily in her sleep on the other side of the partition wall), then on an ...