M. John Harrison
English author and critic · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1945 · age 81
Michael John Harrison, known for publication purposes primarily as M. John Harrison, is an English author and literary critic.
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202686× usual on 10 NovReceived the Booker Prize on 9 November 2026.9 November 2026, 86 times the usual readers on 10 November 2026See the moment2008Philip K. Dick AwardAward2007Arthur C. Clarke AwardAward2005Tähtivaeltaja AwardAward2002“Generally, it was impossible to understand the motives of aliens.”In their wordsChapter 2 “Gold Diggers of 2400 AD” (p. 16)“People think it’s a failure to live alone. But it isn’t. The failure is to live with someone because you can’t face anything else.”In their wordsChapter 4 “Operations of the Heart” (p. 29)“Anna accumulated things as a way of insulating herself against her own thoughts.”In their wordsChapter 16 “The Venture Capital” (p. 150)“They were arrant newcomers, driven by the nouveau enthusiasms of a cowboy economy. They had no idea what they had come for, or how to get it: they only knew they would.”In their wordsChapter 17 “The Lost Entradas” (p. 181)“She had impressed him as capable of behaviour even more meaningless than most human beings. He had watched her kill her own people with a ferocity that betrayed real grief.”In their wordsChapter 29 “Surgery” (p. 361)“Everywhere you look it unpacks to infinity. What you look for, you find. And you people can have it.”In their wordsChapter 31 “I’ve Been Here” (p. 390)Otherwise AwardAward1945Born26 July 1945
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His work includes the Viriconium sequence of novels and short stories (1971-1984), Climbers (1989), and the Kefahuchi Tract trilogy, which consists of Light (2002), Nova Swing (2006) and Empty Space (2012).
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Born 1945 · age 81
