M. John Harrison (1945 - ) Michael John Harrison is the author of, amongst others, the Viriconium stories, The Centauri Device, Climbers, The Course of the Heart, Signs of Life, Light and Nova Swing. He has won the Boardman Tasker Award (Climbers), the James Tiptree Jr Award (Light) and the Arthur C. Clarke Award (Nova Swing). He lives in Shropshire.
Unsettling and insinuating, fabulously alert to the spaces between
things, Harrison is without peer as a chronicler of the fraught,
unsteady state we're in.
*The Guardian*
Like reading Thomas Pynchon underwater, this is a book of
alienation, atmosphere, half glimpsed revelation - and some of the
most beautiful writing you'll ever encounter.
*Daily Mail*
One of the strangest and most unsettling novels of the year
*The Herald*
Harrison is a linguistic artist, constructing sentences that wrap
and weave like a stream of consciousness without ever breaking
focus...every sentence is a decadent bite of a new sensation
*Sci Fi Now*
Uncanny and exquisite
*Morning Star*
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again is a novel so good all the
usual reviewerish superlatives barely seem superlative enough.
*Sibilant Fricative*
Harrison's unsettling and melancholy novel, gritted with farce and
dreadful laughter, shouts award-winner on every page.
*The Times*
Richly textured...slippery and seedy.
*The Spectator*
A deeply unsettling fever dream of a novel. 4.5 out of 5.
*SFX*
[There is] beauty and precision of [Harrison's] psychogeographic
prose. 9.4/10.
*Fantasy Book Review*
Masterful and deeply affecting.
*Locus Magazine*
This excellent book may be the most unsettling piece of fiction you
read this year...
*Shiny New Books*
Harrison is a linguistic artist, constructing sentences that wrap
and weave like a stream of consciousness without ever breaking
focus.
*Sci-Fi Paradise*
Unsettling, brilliant, and pretty much unlike anything anyone else
is doing.
*Locus*
Beautifully written, utterly compelling, and like much of
Harrison's works, there are scenes of such sublime strangeness that
they linger in the mind long after the novel is over. As such it is
another triumph from one of our finest writers, and essential
reading for 2020
*Fantasy Hive*
One of the best writers of fiction currently at work in English
*Robert MacFarlane*
A stunning masterpiece
*Paul Cornell*
Treads the line between realism and fantasy with immense assurance
and draws a portrait of watery, post-Brexit Britain that brings
shivers of both unease and recognition
*New Statesman Books of the year*
As ominous and bizarre as the title suggests. This funny,
unsettling book is better left undescribed, but 'post-Brexit
England haunted by green fish-people growing out of toilet bowls'
should, uh, whet the appetite
*New Statesman Books of the year*
Slippery and dreamlike, a profoundly and eerily disquieting
experience . . . future critics will find in his writing a
distinct, clear-eyed vision of late-twentieth and
early-twenty-first-century life
*J.S. Barnes, Times Literary Supplement*
Brilliantly unsettling
*Olivia Laing*
M. John Harrison's masterpiece
*Frances Wilson, New Statesman*
Absolutely astonishing
*Michael Marshall Smith*
A magnificent book
*Neil Gaiman*
An extraordinary experience
*William Gibson*
A mesmerising, mysterious book . . . Haunting. Worrying.
Beautiful
*Russell T. Davies*
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