M. John Harrison

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Michael John Harrison (born July 26, 1945 in Rugby in the Peak District ) is a British science fiction writer.

Life

Michael John Harrison is the son of engineer Spencer Harrison and Dorothy Harrison, nee Lee. He worked as a junior teacher in Warwickshire from 1963 to 1965 and as a clerk at the Royal Masonic Charity Institute in 1966 . Since then he has been a freelance writer. From 1978 to 1979 he was editor and critic of New Worlds magazine and contributed to the New Manchester Review .

In 1971 he published his The Pastel City , a fantasy novel set in Viriconium, the last city in a distant future. People live on the rubbish and dumps of the past and use a technique they no longer understand and can no longer reproduce. This first novel was followed by another Viriconium novel ( A Storm of Wings ) in 1980 , and two volumes of stories from Viriconium in 1982 and 1984.

Together with the author Jane Johnson he also uses the pseudonym "Gabriel King".

Harrison currently lives in West London .

Awards

bibliography

Series

The series are arranged according to the year of publication of the first volume.

Jerry Cornelius (short stories)
  • The Ash Circus (1969)
  • The Nash Circuit (1969)
  • The Flesh Circle (1971)
  • The Adventures of Jerry Cornelius: The English Assassin (1980, with Michael Moorcock)
  • The Adventures of Jerry Cornelius (Parts 9 & 10, 1993, with Michael Moorcock, Mal Dean and Richard Glyn Jones)
Viriconium
  • 1 The Pastel City (1971)
    • German: The Pastel City. Translated by Rosemarie Ott. Bastei-Taschenbuch # 21037, 1974, ISBN 3-404-00197-4 .
  • 2 A Storm of Wings (1980)
    • English: The rustling of darker swinging. Translated by Rainer Mantz. Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch # 20058, 1984, ISBN 3-404-20058-6 .
  • 3 In Viriconium (1982, also as The Floating Gods , 1983)
    • English: The gods of the pastel city. Translated by Rainer Mantz. Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch # 20078, 1985, ISBN 3-404-20078-0 .
  • 4 Viriconium Nights (1984, collection)
  • The Lamia and Lord Cromis (1971, short story)
  • Lamia Mutable (1972, short story, also as The Bringer with the Window , 1972)
  • Events Witnessed From a City (1975, short story)
  • Viriconium Knights (1981, short story)
  • Strange Great Sins (1983, short story)
  • The Lords of Misrule (1984, short story)
  • In Viriconium (1984, short story)
  • The Luck in the Head (1984, short story)
  • A Young Man's Journey to Viriconium (1985, short story, also called A Young Man's Journey to London )
  • The Dancer from the Dance (1985, short story)
Tag, the Cat (with Jane Johnson, also as Gabriel King)
  • 1 The Wild Road (1997)
  • 2 The Golden Cat (1998)
  • 3 The Knot Garden (2000)
  • 4 Nonesuch (2002)
Kefahuchi Tract Trilogy

Single novels

  • The Committed Men (1971)
    • German: idealists of hell. Translated by Waltraud Götting. Bastei Lübbe science fiction bestseller # 22049, 1982, ISBN 3-404-22049-8 .
  • The Centauri Device (1974)
    • German: In my hand - the earth. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Bestseller # 22031, 1981, ISBN 3-404-22031-5 . Also called: The Centauri machine. Heyne (Science Fiction Masterpieces), 2006, ISBN 3-453-52156-0 .
  • Climbers (1989)
  • The Course of the Heart (1992)
  • Signs of Life (1997)

Collections

  • The Machine in Shaft Ten and Other Stories (1975)
  • The Ice Monkey and Other Stories (1983)
  • Travel Arrangements (2000)
  • Things That Never Happen (2002)
  • You Should Come with Me Now (2017)

Short stories

  • Marina (1966, as John Harrison)
  • The Macbeth Expiation (1968)
  • Visions of Monad (1968)
  • Baa Baa Blocksheep (1968)
  • Green Five Renegade (1969)
  • London Melancholy (1969)
    • German: City in the Fog. In: Wulf H. Bergner (Ed.): At the end of all dreams. Heyne SF&F # 3204, 1970.
  • The Nostalgia Story (1970)
  • The Bait Principle (1970)
  • The Floating Nun (excerpt from The Committed Men , 1970)
  • Guilty! (1971)
  • Ring of Pain (1971)
  • The Causeway (1971)
  • The Machine in Shaft Ten (1972, as Joyce Churchill)
  • Coming from Behind (1973)
  • 'The Wolf That Follows' (1974)
  • The Centauri Device (1974)
  • Running Down (1975)
  • Settling the World (1975)
    • German: Peace on earth. In: Werner Fuchs (Ed.): Street of the snakes. Knaur Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5761, 1983, ISBN 3-426-05761-1 .
  • The Orgasm Band (1975)
  • The Incalling (1978)
  • The Ice Monkey (1980)
  • The Sudden Embodiment Of Benedict Paucemanly (1980)
  • Egnaro (1981)
  • The New Rays (1982)
  • The Quarry (1983)
  • Old Women (1984)
  • Small Heirlooms (1987)
    • German: Small Heirloom. In: Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling (ed.): The new book of fantasy. Bastei Lübbe Paperback # 28191, 1990, ISBN 3-404-28191-8 .
  • The Gift (1988)
  • The Great God Pan (1988)
  • The Horse of Iron & How We Can Know It & Be Changed By It Forever (1989)
  • GIFCO (1992)
  • The Dead (1992, with Simon Ings)
  • Anima (1992)
  • Isobel Avens Returns to Stepney in the Spring (1994)
  • Empty (1995)
  • I Did It (1996)
  • Seven Guesses of the Heart (1996)
  • The Rio Brain (1996, with Simon Ings)
  • The East (1996)
  • Black Houses (1998)
  • Science & The Arts (1999)
  • Suicide Coast (1999)
  • The Neon Heart Murders (2000)
  • Entertaining Angels Unawares (2002)
  • Cicisbeo (2003)
  • Tourism (2004, also as: Tourists )
  • From Climbers (2006)
  • Two Extracts from a New Book (2006)
  • The Good Detective (2007)
  • Keep Smiling with Great Minutes (2008)
  • Places You Didn't Think to Look for Yourself (2008)
  • Name This City (2009)
  • The Walls (2011)
  • Anti Promethean (2011)
  • In Autotelia (2012)
  • Eleven Land: The Lost Palaces (2012)
  • Recovering the Rites (2012)
  • In the Crime Quarter (2012)
  • Lost & Found (2012)
  • A Web (2012)
  • Last Transmission from the Deep Halls (2013)
  • Rockets of the Western Suburbs (2013)
  • Cave and Julia (2013)
  • Explaining the Undiscovered Continent (2013)
  • Cries (2013)
  • Awake Early (2013)
  • Getting Out of There (2013)
  • Jackdaw Bingo (2013)
  • Royal Estate (2013)
  • Psychoarcheology (2014)
  • Earth Advengers (2014)
  • Back to the Island (2014)
  • Animals (2014)
  • Alternate World (2015)
  • Babies from Sand (2016)
  • At the Seaside (2017)
  • Dog People (2017)
  • Here (2017)
  • Imaginary Reviews (2017)
  • Jack of Mercy's (2017)
  • Self-Storage (2017)
  • Studio (2017)
  • The Crisis (2017)
  • The Old Fox (2017)
  • The Theory Cadre (2017)
  • Under the Ginger Moon (2017)
  • Yummie (2017)

Non-fiction

  • Parietal Games: Critical Writings by and on M. John Harrison (2005, with Mark Bould and Michelle Reid)

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Harrison, M. John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harrison, Michael John (full name); Churchill, Joyce (pseudonym); Harrison, John (pseudonym); King, Gabriel (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Rugby (Warwickshire)