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Michael John Harrison (born July 26, 1945), who writes as M. John Harrison, is a British author of science fiction, fantasy and literary fiction.
Harrison was born in Warwickshire. His first story was published in 1966, and from 1968 to 1975 he was literary editor of the magazine New Worlds. His books include the Viriconium sequence of fantasies, the science fiction novel Light, and a short story collection, Things That Never Happen. He is a regular fiction reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian and the Daily Telegraph. His latest novel, Nova Swing is hitting the bookshelves in November.
M. John Harrison is a keen rock climber. His novel Climbers (1989) won the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.
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Standalone novels
The Course of the Heart (1992)
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)
Travel Arrangements (2000)
Things That Never Happen (2002, omnibus edition of The Ice Monkey and Travel Arrangements, with the addition of some previously uncollected material)
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Novels
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Collections and omnibus
Viriconium Nights (1984, US edition. Contains a shorter version 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 introduction 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)
Viriconium (2005, US edition reprinting of the omnibus compilation)
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Graphic novel adaptations
The Luck in the Head (1991, adaptatation of the short story of the same name, illustrated by Ian Miller)
Viriconium (German language adaptation and translation of "In Viriconium", illustrated by Dieter Jüdt)
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Short fiction in Michael Moorcocks Jerry Cornelius sequence
These do not appear in any of Harrison's own collections. However, they do appear in The Nature of the Catastrophe and New Nature of the Catastrophe anthologies. Harrison also collaborated with Michael Moorcock on a Jerry Cornelius comic strip illustrated by Mal Dean. The comic strips also appear in the aforementioned anthology.
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Collaborative fiction
The following were written in collaboration with Jane Johnson under the name Gabriel King:
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Tag the Cat
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Standalone
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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)
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