Michael John Harrison (born July 26, 1945), who writes as M. John Harrison, is an English author and reviewer, whose novels include In Viriconium (1982), Climbers (1989), and Light (2002). He currently resides in London.
Harrison was born in Rugby, Warwickshire in 1945. According to the jacket blurb of his first novel, he was treated to a technical education which didn't stick; he worked at various times as a groom (North Warwicks Hunt), a teache...
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Michael John Harrison (born July 26, 1945), who writes as M. John Harrison, is an English author and reviewer, whose novels include In Viriconium (1982), Climbers (1989), and Light (2002). He currently resides in London.
Harrison was born in Rugby, Warwickshire in 1945. According to the jacket blurb of his first novel, he was treated to a technical education which didn't stick; he worked at various times as a groom (North Warwicks Hunt), a teacher, and a clerk for a masonic charity outfit; his hobbies included dwarfs, electric guitars and writing pastiches of H.H. Munro.
From 1968 to 1975 he was literary editor of the science fiction magazine New Worlds and was part of the so-called New Wave (science fiction) movement of British sf which also included writers such as Norman Spinrad, Barrington Bayley and Thomas M. Disch. As reviewer for New Worlds he often used the pseudonym 'Joyce Churchill'. Amongst his works of that period are three stories utilising the Jerry Cornelius character...
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