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M. John Harrison

Harrison, Michael John

July 26, 1945 (age 80)

Birth place: Rugby, Warwickshire, England, UK

166 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
November 1968 52 Short Fiction Baa Baa Blocksheep New Worlds, November 1968
December 1968 61 Review Black Easter New Worlds, December 1968
December 1968 60 Review Jesus Christs New Worlds, December 1968
December 1968 61 Review Nova New Worlds, December 1968
December 1968 62 Review Picnic on Paradise New Worlds, December 1968
December 1968 62 Review The Last Unicorn New Worlds, December 1968
December 1968 63 Review The Reproductive System New Worlds, December 1968
February 1969 60 Review The Ticket That Exploded New Worlds, February 1969
February 1969 59 Essay Trouble at t'White House New Worlds, February 1969
April 1969 17 Short Fiction The Ash Circus New Worlds, April 1969
May 1969 62 Short Fiction London Melancholy The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1969
June 1969 60 Essay The Boy from Vietnam New Worlds, June 1969
August 1969 12 Short Fiction The Nash Circuit New Worlds, August 1969
November 1969 31 Essay The Tangreese Gimmick New Worlds, November 1969
December 1969 27 Essay Pot Pourri New Worlds, December 1969
January 1970 22 Short Fiction The Nostalgia Story New Worlds, January 1970
January 1970 32|32.1 Essay The Wireless School New Worlds, January 1970
February 1970 20 Short Fiction The Bait Principle New Worlds, February 1970
April 1970 8 Short Fiction The Floating Nun (Excerpt from The Committed Men) New Worlds, April 1970
September 1972 21 Review The Committed Men Vector 61
December 1972 42 Review The Committed Men The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1972
January 1974 56 Short Fiction The Centauri Device The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1974
May 1975 22 Review The Centauri Device The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1975
June 1976 109 Review The Machine in Shaft Ten and Other Stories Foundation, #10 June 1976
January 1977 20 Review The Pastel City Delap's F & SF Review, January 1977
1978 |2 Short Fiction Guilty! New Worlds, Spring 1978
1979 14 Interview New and Other Worlds New Worlds, Spring 1979
1979 8 Essay Notes from the Ivory Basement New Worlds, Spring 1979
1980 16 Short Fiction The Sudden Embodiment Of Benedict Paucemanly Something Else, Spring 1980
August 1980 10 Review A Storm of Wings Fantasy Newsletter, No. 27 August 1980
October 1980 61 Review A Storm of Wings The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1980
December 1980 15 Review A Storm of Wings Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, December 1980
February 1981 101 Review A Storm of Wings Foundation, #21 February 1981
June 1981 104 Review Port of Saints Foundation, #22 June 1981
August 1981 19 Review The Pastel City Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 31, 1981
October 1981 5 Interview The Last Rebel: An Interview with M. John Harrison Foundation, #23 October 1981
March 1982 3 Short Fiction The New Rays Interzone, Spring 1982
February 1983 9|9.1 Review In Viriconium Locus, #265 February 1983
March 1983 33|33.1 Review In Viriconium Interzone, Spring 1983
April 1983 16|16.3 Review In Viriconium Imagine, April 1983
June 1983 168 Review The Floating Gods Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 1983
July 1983 36 Review The Floating Gods The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1983
September 1983 32 Short Fiction Strange Great Sins Interzone, Autumn 1983
November 1983 90 Review In Viriconium Foundation, #29 November 1983
November 1983 90 Review The Ice Monkey Foundation, #29 November 1983
December 1983 32 Review The Ice Monkey Vector 117
January 1984 34 Review In Viriconium Omega Science Digest, January-February 1984
June 1984 24 Review In Viriconium White Dwarf, June 1984
September 1984 23 Short Fiction The Luck in the Head Interzone, Autumn 1984
October 1984 3 Interview The Condition of Falling Vector 122
1985 101 Essay Letter (Foundation #33) Foundation, #33 Spring 1985
February 1985 187 Review Viriconium Nights Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 1985
February 1985 15 Review Viriconium Nights Fantasy Review, February 1985
June 1985 29 Short Fiction A Young Man's Journey to Viriconium Interzone, Summer 1985
October 1985 Review Viriconium Nights Vector 128
October 1985 16 Review Viriconium Nights White Dwarf, October 1985
1986 74 Review Kiteworld Foundation, #35 Winter 1985/1986
December 1986 Interview A Young Man's Journey from Viriconium Vector 135
December 1986 31 Interview M. John Harrison Interzone, Winter 1986
December 1986 Review Viriconium Nights Paperback Inferno, #63
1987 90 Review O-Zone Foundation, #40 Summer 1987
1987 79 Review The Folk of the Air Foundation, #38 Winter 1986/87
January 1987 42 Review The Centauri Device Science Fiction Chronicle, #88 January 1987
February 1987 Review The Centauri Device Vector 136
February 1987 Review The Centauri Device Paperback Inferno, #64
October 1987 Review The Pastel City Paperback Inferno, #68
December 1987 Review A Storm of Wings Paperback Inferno, #69
August 1988 Review The Ice Monkey Paperback Inferno, #73
1989 5 Essay The Profession of Fiction Foundation, #46 Autumn 1989
August 1989 16 Review The Committed Men Critical Wave, #12
1990 94 Review Escape from Kathmandu Foundation, #47 Winter 1989/1990
1990 119 Review Heathern Foundation, #50 Autumn 1990
1990 104 Review The Paradise Motel Foundation, #48 Spring 1990
February 1992 18 Review The Luck in the Head Vector 165
March 1992 67 Review The Luck in the Head Interzone, March 1992
April 1992 11 Short Fiction Anima Interzone, April 1992
April 1992 8 Review The Luck in the Head Paperback Inferno, #95
August 1992 19 Review The Course of the Heart Vector 168
December 1992 18 Review The Course of the Heart Locus, #383 December 1992
1993 5 Interview A Detective Fiction of the Heart Foundation, #58 Summer 1993
1993 101 Review Halo Foundation, #57 Spring 1993
1993 7 Interview On the Edge: The Last Holmfirth Interview with M. John Harrison Foundation, #57 Spring 1993
1993 98 Review The Course of the Heart Foundation, #57 Spring 1993
January 1993 49 Short Fiction The Dead Interzone, January 1993
October 1994 17 Essay Read This (NYRSF, October 1994) The New York Review of Science Fiction, October 1994
November 1994 62 Short Fiction Isobel Avens Returns to Stepney in the Spring Omni, November 1994
February 1996 26 Short Fiction The Rio Brain Interzone, February 1996
December 1996 6 Short Fiction The East Interzone, December 1996
June 1997 23 Review Signs of Life Locus, #437 June 1997
June 1997 53 Review Signs of Life Interzone, June 1997
August 1997 39 Review Signs of Life The Edge, Vol. 2, #5, August-September 1997
August 1997 31 Interview The Committed Man Interzone, August 1997
September 1997 10 Essay Read This (NYRSF, September 1997) The New York Review of Science Fiction, September 1997
September 1997 Review Signs of Life Vector 195
1998 30 Interview Gabriel King - Feliduo Odyssey, Issue 3
1998 104 Review Signs of Life Foundation, Summer 1998
January 1998 35 Review Signs of Life The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 1998
February 1998 154 Review Signs of Life Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1998
March 1998 154 Review Signs of Life Asimov's Science Fiction, March 1998
May 1998 11 Interview M. John Harrison Interview The Edge, Vol. 2, #7, May/June 1998
September 1998 34 Review Signs of Life Vector 201
July 1999 142 Short Fiction Suicide Coast The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1999
2000 6 Short Fiction GIFCO The Third Alternative, #23
2000 43 Review Travel Arrangements The Third Alternative, #25
April 2000 61 Short Fiction The Neon Heart Murders The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 2000
September 2000 35 Review Viriconium Vector 213
November 2000 23 Review The Centauri Device Vector 214
December 2000 20 Review Travel Arrangements Locus, #479 December 2000
December 2000 57 Review Travel Arrangements Interzone, December 2000
February 2001 37 Review Travel Arrangements The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2001
February 2001 139 Review Travel Arrangements Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2001
2002 122 Review Light Foundation, #86 Autumn 2002
2002 126 Review Light Foundation, #86 Autumn 2002
2002 28 Interview Vital Signs: M John Harrison interviewed The Third Alternative, #29
November 2002 17 Review Light Locus, #502 November 2002
November 2002 5 Interview Old, Mean and Misanthropic Vector 226
December 2002 29 Review Light Locus, #503 December 2002
January 2003 24 Review Light Vector 227
February 2003 Review Things That Never Happen Realms of Fantasy, February 2003
March 2003 38 Review Light The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2003
March 2003 38 Review Things That Never Happen The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2003
April 2003 58 Review Light Interzone, April 2003
June 2003 Interview Interview: M. John Harrison Strange Horizons, 9 June 2003
June 2003 6 Review Light The New York Review of Science Fiction, June 2003
August 2003 136 Review Things That Never Happen Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2003
August 2003 43 Essay Why I Write Space Opera Locus, #511 August 2003
December 2003 6 Interview M. John Harrison: No Escape Locus, #515 December 2003
July 2004 34 Review Light Locus, #522 July 2004
September 2004 7 Review Light The New York Review of Science Fiction, September 2004
September 2004 66 Review The Course of the Heart Locus, #524 September 2004
December 2004 72 Review Light Amazing Stories, December 2004
January 2005 34 Review Things That Never Happen Interzone, January-February 2005
February 2005 117 Review Light Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue #17, February/March 2005
February 2005 |5 Review Light Reflection's Edge, February 2005
March 2006 33 Review Parietal Games: Critical Writings by and on M. John Harrison Locus, #542 March 2006
April 2006 Review Parietal Games: Critical Writings by and on M. John Harrison Strange Horizons, 10 April 2006
July 2006 348 Review Parietal Games: Critical Writings by and on M. John Harrison Science Fiction Studies, July 2006
November 2006 19 Review Nova Swing Locus, #550 November 2006
December 2006 Review Nova Swing Strange Horizons, 4 December 2006
April 2007 Review Nova Swing Strange Horizons, 16 April 2007
April 2007 28 Short Fiction The Good Detective Interzone, April 2007
July 2007 23 Review Nova Swing Vector 253
March 2009 22 Review Nova Swing The New York Review of Science Fiction, March 2009
April 2009 Review The Centauri Device StarShipSofa, No 81
2012 Short Fiction In Autotelia Arc 1.1: The Future Always Wins
September 2012 113|113.2 Review Empty Space SFX, September 2012
October 2012 18 Review Empty Space: A Haunting Locus, #621 October 2012
November 2012 78 Review Empty Space Interzone, November-December 2012
2013 36 Review Empty Space Vector 272 Spring 2013
March 2013 21 Review Empty Space: A Haunting Locus, #626 March 2013
July 2013 Review Empty Space Strange Horizons, 15 July 2013
September 2013 88 Review Empty Space Galaxy's Edge, Issue 4: September 2013
November 2013 82 Review Getting Out of There Black Static, Issue 37, November-December 2013
April 2014 Short Fiction Psychoarchaeology Arc 2.2 / Chromewash
December 2017 15 Review You Should Come with Me Now Locus, #683 December 2017
February 2018 |3 Review You Should Come with Me Now Strange Horizons, 19 February 2018
June 2018 |14.4 Review You Should Come with Me Now Shoreline of Infinity, Summer 2018
December 2019 Short Fiction Colonising the Future Visions, Issue Two: Visions of Humanity, 2019
January 2020 |72.2 Review "Doe Lea" Black Static, January-February 2020
September 2020 84 Interview M. John Harrison: The Hyperobject in the Shadows Interzone, September-October 2020
September 2020 82 Review The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again Interzone, September-October 2020
November 2020 |5 Review Settling the World: Selected Stories 1970-2020 Strange Horizons, 23 November 2020
March 2021 175|175 Review Settling the World Interzone, March-June 2021
May 2021 80 Review The Crisis MIT Technology Review, May/June 2021
May 2021 80|80.1 Review The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again MIT Technology Review, May/June 2021
September 2021 116|116.1 Review The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September-October 2021

30 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
1971 Novel The Committed Men M. John Harrison
1971 Novel The Pastel City M. John Harrison
1974 Novel The Centauri Device M. John Harrison
1975 Collection The Machine in Shaft Ten and Other Stories M. John Harrison
1980 Novel A Storm of Wings M. John Harrison
1982 Novel In Viriconium M. John Harrison
1983 Novel The Floating Gods M. John Harrison
1983 Collection The Ice Monkey and Other Stories M. John Harrison
1984 Collection Viriconium Nights M. John Harrison
1988 Omnibus Viriconium M. John Harrison
1989 Novel Climbers M. John Harrison
1991 Chapbook The Luck in the Head M. John Harrison
1992 Novel The Course of the Heart M. John Harrison
1997 Novel Signs of Life M. John Harrison
2000 Collection Travel Arrangements M. John Harrison
2000 Omnibus Viriconium M. John Harrison
2002 Novel Light M. John Harrison
2002 Collection Things That Never Happen M. John Harrison
2005 Omnibus Anima M. John Harrison
2005 Nonfiction Parietal Games: Critical Writings by and on M. John Harrison M. John Harrison & Mark Bould & Michelle Reid
2006 Novel Nova Swing M. John Harrison
2012 Novel Empty Space M. John Harrison
2013 Chapbook Getting Out of There M. John Harrison
2017 Collection You Should Come with Me Now: Stories of Ghosts M. John Harrison
2019 Chapbook 'Doe Lea' M. John Harrison
2020 Collection Settling the World: Selected Stories 1970-2020 M. John Harrison
2020 Novel The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again M. John Harrison
2021 Chapbook English Heritage M. John Harrison
2023 Nonfiction Wish I Was Here M. John Harrison
8888 Novel By Gas Mask and Fire Hydrant M. John Harrison

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
1981 British Fantasy Award August Derleth Fantasy Award (Best Novel) A Storm of Wings Nominee
1981 Locus Poll Award Best Fantasy Novel A Storm of Wings Nominee
1983 British Fantasy Award August Derleth Fantasy Award (Best Novel) In Viriconium Nominee
1983 Locus Poll Award Best Fantasy Novel In Viriconium Nominee
1984 Philip K. Dick Award Philip K. Dick Award In Viriconium Nominee
1985 British Science Fiction Award Best Short Fiction A Young Man's Journey to Viriconium Nominee
1985 Locus Poll Award Best Collection Viriconium Nights Nominee
1985 World Fantasy Award Best Anthology/Collection (old) Viriconium Nights Nominee
1986 Locus Poll Award Best Collection Viriconium Nights Nominee
1996 British Science Fiction Award Best Short Fiction The East Nominee
1997 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Novel Signs of Life Nominee
1997 British Science Fiction Award Best Novel Signs of Life Nominee
1997 James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award Gender-bending SF Signs of Life Nominee
1998 British Fantasy Award August Derleth Fantasy Award (Best Novel) Signs of Life Nominee
2000 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Suicide Coast Nominee
2000 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Best Short Science Fiction Suicide Coast Nominee
2001 Locus Poll Award Best Collection Travel Arrangements Nominee
2001 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story The Neon Heart Murders Nominee
2001 World Fantasy Award Best Collection Travel Arrangements Nominee
2002 British Science Fiction Award Best Novel Light Nominee
2002 James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award Gender-bending SF Light Winner
2003 Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Science Fiction Novel Light Nominee
2003 Locus Poll Award Best SF Novel Light Nominee
2004 British Fantasy Award Best Collection Things That Never Happen Nominee
2004 Locus Poll Award Best Collection Things That Never Happen Nominee
2005 British Fantasy Award Best Collection Things That Never Happen Nominee
2005 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis Bestes ausländisches Werk Licht Nominee
2005 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Tourism Nominee
2006 British Science Fiction Award Best Novel Nova Swing Nominee
2007 Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Science Fiction Novel Nova Swing Winner
2007 British Fantasy Award August Derleth Fantasy Award (Best Novel) Nova Swing Nominee
2007 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Best Science Fiction Novel Nova Swing Nominee
2007 Locus Poll Award Best SF Novel Nova Swing Nominee
2008 Philip K. Dick Award Philip K. Dick Award Nova Swing Winner
2012 British Science Fiction Award Best Novel Empty Space Nominee
2012 Locus Online 21st Century Science Fiction Novel Light Nominee
2013 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Best Science Fiction Novel Empty Space Finalist
2013 Locus Poll Award Best SF Novel Empty Space Nominee
2013 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story In Autotelia Nominee
2018 Locus Poll Award Best Collection You Should Come with Me Now: Stories of Ghosts Nominee
2020 British Science Fiction Award Best Novel The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again Nominee
2021 Locus Poll Award Best Collection Settling the World: Selected Stories 1970-2020 Nominee
2021 Locus Poll Award Best Fantasy Novel The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again Nominee
2021 Shirley Jackson Award Best Collection Settling the World: Selected Stories 1970-2020 Nominee
2024 Locus Poll Award Best Non-Fiction Wish I Was Here Nominee
2024 World Fantasy Award Special Award, Professional Wish I Was Here Nominee
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