M. John Harrison

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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1971
  • Latest Book:
    June 2026
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Full Series List in Order

Light

1 - Light (Nov-2002)
2 - Nova Swing (Oct-2006)

Viriconium

1 - Pastel City (Sep-1971)
2 - A Storm of Wings (Jan-1982)
3 - The Floating Gods (Feb-1983)
4 - Viriconium Nights (Aug-1984)
Viriconium: Books 1 - 4 (Oct-2005)

Books in Order: 22 titles

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  • The End of Everything

  • Wish I Was Here

    BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, THE OBSERVER (LONDON), GRANTA, AND TLS One of our greatest and most original living writers sets out the perils of the writing life with joyful provocation in this “anti-memoir.”M. John Harrison has produ...

  • Climbers

  • Settling the World

    Throughout his career, M. John Harrison???s writing has defied categorisation, building worlds both unreal and all-too real, overlapping and interlocking with each other. His stories are replete with fissures and portals into parallel dimensions, uni...

  • The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again

    *WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2020**A New Statesman Book of the Year*'A mesmerising, mysterious book . . . Haunting. Worrying. Beautiful' Russell T. Davis'Brilliantly unsettling' Olivia Laing'A magificent book' Neil Gaiman'An extraordinary experien...

  • You Should Come With Me Now

    M. John Harrison is a cartographer of the liminal. His work sits at the boundaries between genres - horror and science fiction, fantasy and travel writing - just as his characters occupy the no man's land between the spatial and the spiritual. Her...

  • Empty Space

    One of science fiction’s premiere stylists, M. John Harrison has received abundant praise and awards for his wildly imaginative ideas and transcendent prose. Now he returns to the richly complex universe of Light and Nova Swing with a stunning new ...

  • Nova Swing

    Light - 2

    Years after Ed Chianese's fateful trip into the Kefahuchi Tract, the tract has begun to expand and change in ways we never could have predicted--and even more terrifying, parts of it have actually begun to fall to Earth, transforming the landscapes t...

  • Viriconium: Books 1 - 4

    Viriconium

    Available to American readers for the first time, this landmark collection gathers four groundbreaking fantasy classics from the acclaimed author of Light. Set in the imagined city of Viriconium, here are the masterworks that revolutionized a genre a...



  • The Course of the Heart

    The author of Things That Never Happen (starred review, Publishers Weekly) and Light (Tiptree Award winner) delivers an extraordinary, genre-bending novel that weaves together mythology, sexuality, and the troubled past and present of Eastern Europe....

  • Things That Never Happen

    John Harrison is one of the most critically acclaimed writers in England. Over the last 30 years Harrison has been inspiring readers and writers alike on both sides of the Atlantic. Despite this, Harrison's fiction is almost entirely unavailable in t...

  • Light

    Light - 1

    In M. John Harrison’s dangerously illuminating new novel, three quantum outlaws face a universe of their own creation, a universe where you make up the rules as you go along and break them just as fast, where there’s only one thing more mysteriou...

  • Signs of Life

    Chronicles the symbiotic relationship between Mike Rose--head of a courier company that serves the genetics industry, and Isobel Avens--a woman twenty years younger than he and obsessed with the desire to fly...

  • Luck in the Head

    This eerie and visually arresting tale is set in the grotesque city of Uroconium, where Ardwick Crome dreams of a strange ritual from his childhood. The women of his village pursue a "lamb"; to eat a pie made from its head is considered good luck. Bu...

  • The Great God Pan

    This stunning collection of novellas and short stories by masters of the macabre brings to fans and newcomers an unrelenting spell of horror and suspense. These are tales that strike beyond sheer terror, as their disturbing visions capture the dark r...

  • The Ice Monkey

  • Harrison M Viriconium Nights

  • The Centauri Device

    John Truck was to outward appearances just another lowlife spaceship captain. But he was also the last of the Centaurans ' or at least, half of him was ' which meant that he was the only person who could operate the Centauri Device, a sentient bomb w...

  • Viriconium Nights

    Viriconium - 4



  • The Floating Gods

    Viriconium - 3

  • A Storm of Wings

    Viriconium - 2

  • Pastel City

    Viriconium - 1

    A glittering future world has vanished... Viriconium, the Pastel City, last of the Afternoon Cultures, is left a wasteland of crumbling ruins. The secrete sparks of discontent between North and South have been fanned to savage flames. The peaceful so...

Award-Winning Books by M. John Harrison

Nova Swing
2008 Philip K. Dick Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

M. John Harrison has published 22 books.

The next book by M. John Harrison, The End of Everything, will be published in June 2026.

The first book by M. John Harrison, Pastel City, was published in September 1971.

Yes. M. John Harrison has 2 series.
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