M. John Harrison
Author Biography & Works
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Books by M. John Harrison
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M. John Harrison's The Centauri Device (1974) was a new wave space opera that was acknowledged as a major influence by writers as varied as Iain M. Banks and China...
Nova Swing
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A far-future space opera by M. John Harrison, set on a world touched by the Event Horizon, where a detective and a smuggler follow strange visitors and stranger objects. It...
Empty Space
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EMPTY SPACE is a space adventure. We begin with the following dream: An alien research tool the size of a brown dwarf star hangs in the middle of nowhere, as...
The Centauri Device
Do you know what they used to call cyberpunk in the 70s? "Hippie space opera", according to the New Worlds Magazine. At least that's what they called Harrison's third space...
Licht - Die Trilogie: Drei Romane
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With The Centauri Device, M. John Harrison provided the foundation text of the British Renaissance, or the New Space Opera, or both (depending on who you listen to). Then he...
Viriconium
A defining series in the Dying Earth sub-genre because of its use of metafiction.
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