M. John Harrison Reihenfolge der Bücher

One of our greatest and most original living writers sets out the perils of the writing life with joyful provocation

The beloved cult classic from the winner of the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize: a novel of life-changing moments, incredible descriptions of landscape and the power of an obsession.

"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, unidentified countries and lost lands. But more important than the places they point to are the obsessions that drive the people who so believe in them, characters who spend their lives hunting for, and haunted by, clues and maps that speak to the possibility of somewhere else.This selection of stories, drawn from over 50 years of writing, bears witness to that desire for difference: whether following backstreet occultists, amateur philosophers, down-and-outs or refugees, we see our relationship with 'the other' in microscopic detail, and share in Harrison's rejection of the idea that the world, or our understanding of it, could ever be settled."--Provided by publisher

*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 experience' William Gibson Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2020, this is fiction that pushes the boundaries of the novel form. Shaw had a breakdown, but he's getting himself back together. He has a single room, a job on a decaying London barge, and an on-off affair with a doctor's daughter called Victoria, who claims to have seen her first corpse at age thirteen. It's not ideal, but it's a life. Or it would be if Shaw hadn't got himself involved in a conspiracy theory that, on dark nights by the river, seems less and less theoretical... Meanwhile, Victoria is up in the Midlands, renovating her dead mother's house, trying to make new friends. But what, exactly, happened to her mother? Why has the local waitress disappeared into a shallow pool in a field behind the house? And why is the town so obsessed with that old Victorian morality tale, The Water Babies? As Shaw and Victoria struggle to maintain their relationship, the sunken lands are rising up again, unnoticed in the shadows around them.

Der Wissenschaftler Michael Kearney ist mit der Arbeit an dem neuen Quantencomputer beschäftigt, als ihm zunehmend unwirkliche Erscheinungen aus seiner Vergangenheit zu schaffen machen. Vierhundert Jahre später hat eine Frau, die mit dem Bewusstsein eines Raumschiffs verbunden ist, mit demselben Problem zu kämpfen. Einem Problem, das offenbar die Struktur des Universums durchzieht. Doch dann machen beide eine unfassbare Entdeckung, die das Schicksal der Menschheit für immer verändern wird.

EMPTY SPACE is a space adventure. We begin with the following dream: An alien research tool the size of a brown dwarf star hangs in the middle of nowhere, as a result of an attempt to place it equidistant from everything else in every possible universe. Somewhere in the fractal labyrinth beneath its surface, a woman lies on an allotropic carbon deck, a white paste of nanomachines oozing from the corner of her mouth. She is neither conscious nor unconscious, dead nor alive. There is something wrong with her cheekbones. At first you think she is changing from one thing into another - perhaps it's a cat, perhaps it's something that only looks like one - then you see that she is actually trying to be both things at once. She is waiting for you, she has been waiting for you for perhaps 10,000 years. She comes from the past, she comes from the future. She is about to speak... EMPTY SPACE is a sequel to LIGHT and NOVA SWING, three strands presented in alternating chapters which will work their way separately back to this image of frozen transformation.

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Eines Tages entdecken Radioastronomen eine Zone in der Galaxis, in der alle bekannten Regeln der Physik ihre Gültigkeit verlieren und in der es von Artefakten nichtmenschlicher Kulturen nur so wimmelt. Jahrhunderte nach dieser Entdeckung beginnt sich diese Zone zu verändern – und langsam auf die von Menschen bewohnten Welten auszuweiten … Nach seinem Erfolgsroman „Licht“ stellt M. John Harrison einmal mehr unter Beweis, dass er der unerreichte Meister der zeitgenössischen Science Fiction ist.

Das Science-Fiction-Ereignis des Jahres! Mit „Licht“ legt der englische Starautor M. John Harrison den ersten definitiven Science-Fiction-Roman des 21. Jahrhunderts vor: Eine atemberaubende Achterbahnfahrt durch Zeit und Raum, ein Buch, so voller Energie und Einfälle, dass man nur staunen kann. Wofür andere Autoren mehrbändige Zyklen benötigen und George Lucas sechs Filme - dafür genügt Harrison dieser eine Roman!

Seit Jahrzehnten unter den Top Ten der besten SF-Bücher aller Zeiten: M. John Harrisons legendärer Roman "Das Centauri-Spiel", mit dem der Autor des Bestsellers "Licht" das Genre der Space-Opera revolutionierte. Ohne ihn hätte es Autoren wie Peter F. Hamilton, Alastair Reynolds oder Charles Stross nie gegeben. In erstmals ungekürzter und vollständig überarbeiteter Neuausgabe.