Michael John Harrison (July 26, 1945, Warwickshire ), is a UK science fiction author, fantasy author and literary fiction author, who writes as "M. John Harrison". July 26 is the 207th day (208th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 158 days remaining. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... Warwickshire (pronounced either /ˈwɔːɹɪkˌʃə/ or /ˈwɔːɹɪkˌʃɪə/) is a landlocked non-metropolitan county in central England. ... Note that this partial list contains some authors whose works of fantastic fiction would today be called science fiction, even if they predate, or did not work in that genre. ... The definition of a fantasy author is somewhat diffuse, and a matter of opinion - Jules Verne considered H. G. Wells to be a fantasy author - and there is considerable overlap with science fiction authors and horror fiction authors. ... Literary fiction is a somewhat uneasy term that has come into common usage since around 1970, principally to distinguish serious fiction from the many types of genre fiction and popular fiction. ...

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. New Worlds was a British Science Fiction Magazine which was first published professionally in 1946. ...

A keen rock climber, he wrote the novel Climbers (1989), which won the Boardman Tasker Memorial Award. Climbers on Valkyrie at the Roaches. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Harrison's other books include the Viriconium sequence of fantasies, Light, a science fiction novel, and a short story collection, Things That Never Happen. Viriconium is a fictional city created by M. John Harrison and also the name of the cycle of novels and stories set in and around it. ...

Harrison is a regular fiction reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian and the Daily Telegraph. The Times Literary Supplement (or TLS) is a weekly literary review published in London by News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation. ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... This article deals with The Daily Telegraph in Britain, see The Daily Telegraph (Australia) for the Australian publication The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855. ...

Works

Fiction

Viriconium sequence

Novels

• The Pastel City (1971) (novel)
• A Storm of Wings (1980) (novel)
• In Viriconium (USA edition The Floating Gods) (1982). Nominated for the Guardian Fiction Prize (novel)

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Collections and omnibus

• Viriconium Nights (1984) (US edition). Contains a shorter verison 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 introdution 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)

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Graphic novel adaptation

• The Luck in the Head (1991) (adaptatation of the short story of the same name, illusrated by Ian Miller)
• Viriconium (German language adapation and translation of "In Viriconium", illustrated by Dieter Jüdt)

Gabriel King novels

• The Wild Road (1997) (novel in collaboration with Jane Johnson, as "Gabriel King")
• The Golden Cat 1998) (novel, as above)
• The Knot Garden (2000) (novel, as above)
• Nonesuch (2001) (novel, as above)

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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 2003 James Tiptree, Jr. Award
• Anima (2005, an omnibus edition of Signs of Life and The Course of the Heart).

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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 previously uncollected material)

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.