M. John Harrison

M(ichael) John Harrison (born 1945) is a UK writer, mainly of science fiction and fantasy, but he has written a "mainstream" novel, Climbers (1989) (he is himself a keen rockclimber).

He is probably best known for his Viriconium series, most recently published in an omnibus edition as volume 7 in Orion/Millennium's Fantasy Masterworks series:

• "Viriconium Knights" (novelette, 1981, in Elsewhere v1, ed. Terri Winding & Mark Alan Arnold)
• The Pastel City (novel, 1971)
• "The Lords of Misrule" (1984, in Savoy Dreams, ed. David Britton & Michael Butterworth)
• "Strange Great Sins" (1983 Interzone)
• A Storm of Wings (novel, 1980)
• "The Dancer from the Dance" (novelette, 1984, in Virconium Nights [UK])
• "The Luck in the Head" (novelette, 1985, in Virconium Nights [US]) (¿1983 Interzone?)
• "The Lamia and Lord Cromis: (novelette, 1971, New Worlds Quarterly, ed. Michael Moorcock)
• In Viriconium (novel, 1982; published in the U.S. in 1983 as The Floating Gods)
• "A Young Man’s Journey to Viriconium" (novelette, 1985 Interzone)

All the short stories and novelettes were previously collected in Viriconium Nights (1985 UK). The 1984 U.S. edition omitted "The Dancer from the Dance" and "A Young Man's Journey...", but included:

• "Lamia Mutable" (1972, in Again, Dangerous Visions, ed. Harlan Ellison)
• "Events Witnessed from a City" (1975, in The Machine in Shaft Ten)
• In Viriconium (1984, original novella)

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