Appendiz Z - M.
John Harrison
I
could say who he writes like, but really he only writes like himself. I'm sorry
to say I've only read his Virconium stories and only his first two books of
that series multiple times (especially The Pastel City) but this is a fantastic
and richly imaginative series both beautiful and sad and hopeful with the
thought that humanity could have reached the heights from which it fell. I
could tell you of The Pastel City and Virconium but I will not. You need to
have the pleasure of reading them for yourself and seeing the great and magical
and technologically wondrous remains of mankind (man and woman if not as
entirely human as we would call ourselves now and still basically human with
our flaws and desires) for yourself.
Mr.
Harrison is still writing and has his own blog lucky enough for us.
Bibliography
A
Storm of Wings (1980)
A Young Man's Journey to Viriconium
(1985)
Variant Title: A Young Man's Journey to
London (1985)
The Adventures of Jerry Cornelius (Parts
9 & 10) (1993) with Michael Moorcock and Mal Dean and Richard Glyn Jones
[only as by Michael Moorcock and M. John Harrison and Mal Dean and R. Glyn
Jones ]
Anima (2005)
Baa Baa Blocksheep (1968)
The Bait Principle (1970)
Black Houses (1998)
The Causeway (1971)
The Centauri Device (1974)
Coming from Behind (1973)
The Committed Men (1971)
The Course of the Heart (1992)
The Dancer from the Dance (1985)
The Dead (1992) with Simon Ings
The East (1996)
Egnaro (1981)
Empty (1995)
Empty
Space (2012)
Entertaining
Angels Unawares (2002)
Events
Witnessed From a City (1975)
The
Floating Nun (Excerpt from The Committed Men) (1970)
Forever
(1989) also appeared as:
Variant
Title: The Horse of Iron and How We Can Know It and Be Changed by It Forever
(1989)
GIFCO
(1992)
The
Gift (1988)
The
Golden Cat (1998) with Jane Johnson [only as by Gabriel King ]
The
Good Detective (2007)
The
Great God Pan (1988)
Green
Five Renegade (1969)
Guilty!
(1971)
I
Did It (1996)
The
Ice Monkey (1980)
The
Ice Monkey and Other Stories (1983)
In
Autotelia (2012)
In
Viriconium (1982) Variant Title: The Floating Gods (1983)
The
Incalling (1978)
Isobel
Avens Returns to Stepney in the Spring (1994)
Keep
Smiling with Great Minutes (2008)
The
Knot Garden (2000) with Jane Johnson [only as by Gabriel King ]
The
Lamia and Lord Cromis (1971)
Variant
Title: The Lamia & Lord Cromis (2000)
Lamia
Mutable (1972)
Variant
Title: The Bringer with the Window (1972)
Light
(2002)
London
Melancholy (1969)
The
Lords of Misrule (1984)
The
Luck in the Head (1984)
The
Macbeth Expiation (1968)
The
Machine in Shaft Ten (1972) [only as by Joyce Churchill ]
The
Machine in Shaft Ten and Other Stories (1975)
Marina
(1966)
The
Neon Heart Murders (2000)
The
New Rays (1982)
Nonesuch
(2002) with Jane Johnson [only as by Gabriel King ]
The
Nostalgia Story (1970)
Nova
Swing (2006)
Old
Women (1984)
The
Orgasm Band (1975)
Parietal
Games: Critical Writings by and on M. John Harrison (2005) with Mark Bould and
Michelle Reid
The
Pastel City (1971)
Pearlant
(2012)
The
Quarry (1983)
Ring
of Pain (1971)
The
Rio Brain (1996) with Simon Ings
Running
Down (1975)
Science
& The Arts (1999)
Settling
the World (1975)
Seven
Guesses of the Heart (1996)
Signs
of Life (1997)
Small
Heirlooms (1987)
Strange
Great Sins (1983)
Suicide
Coast (1999)
Things
That Never Happen (2002)
Tourism
(2004) also appeared as:
Variant
Title: Tourists (2004)
Travel
Arrangements (2000)
Two
Extracts from a New Book (2006)
Viriconium
(1988)
Viriconium
Knights (1981)
Viriconium
Nights (1984)
Visions
of Monad (1968)
The
Wild Road (1997) with Jane Johnson [only as by Gabriel King ]
'The
Wolf That Follows' (1974)
Essays
Absorbing
the Miraculous (1974)
The
Adventures of Jerry Cornelius: The English Assassin (1980) with Richard Glyn
Jones and Mal Dean and Michael Moorcock [only as by Michael Moorcock and M.
John Harrison and Malcolm Dean and Richard Glyn Jones ]
The
Answer Is Chicago (1969)
Author's
Introduction (Things That Never Happen) (2002)
Author's
Note (The Floating Gods) (1983)
Author's
Note (Viriconium Nights) (1984)
Big
Brother Is Twenty-One (1970) [only as by Joyce Churchill ]
The
Black Glak (1972)
Breakthrough
(1987)
By
Tennyson Out of Disney (1971)
Coming
to Life (1975)
Essay:
A Literature of Comfort (1971)
Filling
Us Up (1973)
Introduction
(334) (1976)
Introduction
(The Chrysalids) (2000)
Introduction
(The Golden Barge) (1979)
Introduction
(The Tain) (2002)
Introduction
(The Vaccinator) (1999)
Letter
(Foundation #33) (1985)
Notes
from the Ivory Basement (1979)
Paperbag
(1969) [only as by Joyce Churchill ]
The
Problem of Sympathy (1972)
The
Profession of Fiction (1989)
The
Profession of Science Fiction
The
Rape of the Possible (1987)
Read
This (NYRSF, October 1994) (1994)
Read
This (NYRSF, September 1997) (1997)
Sweet
Analytics (1975)
To
the Stars and Beyond on the Fabulous Anti-Syntax Drive (1973)
Trouble
at t'White House (1969)
Why
I Write Space Opera (2003)
Vorwort
(Die Triffids) (2012)
Reviews
A
Raging Calm (1969) by Stan Barstow
Alph
(1973) by Charles Eric Maine
The
Chalk Giants (1975) by Keith Roberts
Crybaby
of the Western World (1969) by John Leonard
Dance
of the Dwarfs (1969) by Geoffrey Household
Do
Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1969) by Philip K. Dick
Escape
from Kathmandu (1990) by Kim Stanley Robinson
Excalibur
(1975) by Sanders Anne Laubenthal
Floating
Opera (1969) by John Barth
The
Folk of the Air (1987) by Peter S. Beagle
The
Getting Into Death (1975) by Thomas M. Disch
Guzman
Go Home (1969) by Alan Sillitoe
Heathern
(1990) by Jack Womack
Ipomoea
(1973) by John Rackham
King
Queen Knave (1969) by Vladimir Nabokov
Kiteworld
(1985) by Keith Roberts
Masque
of a Savage Mandarin (1975) by Philip Robinson
Mirror
Image (1973) by Michael G. Coney
The
New Apocrypha (1975) by John Sladek
O-Zone
(1987) by Paul Theroux
The
Paradise Motel (1990) by Eric McCormack
Port
of Saints (1981) by William S. Burroughs
Preserve
and Protect (1969) by Allen Drury
Pstalemate
(1973) by Lester del Rey
Restoree
(1969) by Anne McCaffrey
The
Sheep Look Up (1975) by John Brunner
Solar
Lottery (1968) by Philip K. Dick (co-reviewed with Robert Meadley ) [only as by
R. G. Meadley and M. John Harrison ]
The
Ticket That Exploded (1969) by William Burroughs
To
Ride Pegasus (1975) by Anne McCaffrey
The
Universe Makers (1973) by Donald A. Wollheim
The Pastel City is one of my all time favorite stories.
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