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Climbers by M. John Harrison
Category: Fiction
Retreating from his failed marriage to Pauline, Mike leaves London for the Yorkshire moors, where he meets Norman and his entourage, busy pursuing their own dreams of escape. Travelling from crag to crag throughout the country, they are searching for the unattainable: the perfect climb. Through rock-cli ...Show more
Climbers: A Novel by M. John Harrison
Category: Fiction
One of M. John Harrison's most acclaimed novels in a career of near universal acclaim, CLIMBERS is, perhaps, the least fantastical of his novels. Yet it carries life-changing moments, descriptions of landscape bordering on the hallucinogenic and flights of pure fictive power that leave any notion of the ...Show more
Climbers - With an Introduction by Robert Macfarlane by M. John Harrison
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'No one alive can write sentences like he can. He's the missing evolutionary link between William Burroughs and Virginia Woolf' Olivia Laing'Among the most brilliant novelists writing today' Robert Macfarlane'Truly gets to the heart of that strange, indefinable otherness of the wild northern landscape' ...Show more
Light by M.John Harrison
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Listed by the Guardian as one of the top 100 science fiction books of the 21st century. On the barren surface of an asteroid, located deep in the galaxy beneath the unbearable light of the Kefahuchi Tract, lie three objects: an abandoned spacecraft, a pair of bone dice covered with strange symbols, and ...Show more
Light by John M. Harrison; Sam Green (Designed by)
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Gollancz S. F. Ser.
On the barren surface of an asteroid, located deep in the galaxy beneath the unbearable light of the Kefahuchi Tract, lie three objects: an abandoned spacecraft, a pair of bone dice covered with strange symbols, and a human skeleton. What they are and what they mean are the mysteries explored and unwrap ...Show more
Nova Swing by M.John Harrison
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Gollancz S.F.
It is some time after Ed Chianese's trip into the Kefahuchi Tract. A major industry of the Halo is now tourism. The Tract has begun to expand and change, but, more problematically, parts of it have also begun to fall to earth, piecemeal, on the Beach planets. We are in a city, perhaps on New Venusport o ...Show more
The Centauri Device by M.John Harrison
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
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 which might hold the key to settling a vicious space war. ...Show more