![]() ![]() For my money, Light falls firmly in the Wolfean school of sci-fi: it didn’t feel all that new or reinvented. Light is catalogued as space opera, and Harrision “reinvents” it, according to Wikipedia. In the meantime, let me try to convey the atmosphere of Light. So I’ll get back to you in a couple of years on that Nobel prize. I also bought Viriconium – a fantasy series of novels and stories started in 1972 and finished in 1985. The same goes for The Centauri Device – a stand-alone space opera title published in 1974. But after reading Light, I’ll finish the entire trilogy. All three books are quite different, and Light can easily be read as a standalone novel.ĭo I agree with Mièville? I’m not sure, and besides, I’ve only read this one book. ![]() The trilogy is also known as the Empty Space trilogy – Empty Space being the title of the last book, published in 2012. It won the Triptree award, and its sequel Nova Swing won the Clarke and the PKD. Light is the first of three connected books – The Kefahuchi Tract trilogy. And yes, he writes fantasy and sf, though of a form, scale and brilliance that it shames not only the rest of the field, but most modern fiction.” Austere, unflinching and desperately moving, he is one of the very great writers alive today. John Harrison is not a Nobel laureate proves the bankruptcy of the literary establishment. ![]() China Miéville has said the following about Micheal John Harrison: “That M. ![]()
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