Climbers
"Harrison's style has the suddenness of current film. His cinematic eye and vocal mimicry are preternatural. Each inmage is stunning. As in a Mike Leigh film, 'ordinary' people turn bizarre under the camera's brilliant defintion, so that they seem both idiosyncratic and typical." --London review of Books.
"A writer who can describe the grip and fallout of an obsession with the strength that comes from knowledge." --Guardian.
Things
That Never Happen
"Harrison's new collection is wonderfully haunting. Its subject is the fragility of the 'real world' and how it is shattered by unmotivated violence, unusual belief systems, madness, dreams and death. His stories are full of insight and extraordinaty imagery." --The Times.
"A cross between John Fowles and Iris Murdoch" --Independent on Sunday.
Light
"Sentence by sentence [Harrison] is almost certainly one of the most skilled SF writers alive... an unusually strong and even, for all its brutality, touching example of how character and physics can illuminate each other in the best hard SF. Light is likely to be one of the most rewarding and challenging novels of the year, and goes a long way toward explaining just what it is that Harrison can do that other writers find so astonishing." --Locus.
Course
of the Heart
"Harrison has taken bold risks, but the risks pay off. This memorable
book is the manifestation of a powerfully distinct vision, at once sleazy
and iridescent." --TLS.
Light
"Mike Harrison is the only writer on Earth equally attuned to the essential strangeness both of quantum physics and the attritional banalities of modern urban life. This is space opera for these dark times, and Light is brilliant." -- Iain Banks
Things
That Never Happen
"From the Barley Brothers of his Viriconium books, to the pornographic archons of "The Great God Pan", to the tawdry urban voodoo of "The Incalling", MJH investigates the terrible dilemma of the secular visionary: transcendence is necessary, and it is possible, and it is all around us and it leads back here." -- China Mieville.