M. John Harrison (1945 - ) Michael John Harrison is the author of, amongst others, the Viriconium stories, The Centauri Device, Climbers, The Course of the Heart, Signs of Life, Light and Nova Swing. He has won the Boardman Tasker Award (Climbers), the James Tiptree Jr Award (Light) and the Arthur C. Clarke Award (Nova Swing). He lives in Shropshire.
As ominous and bizarre as the title suggests. This funny, unsettling book is better left undescribed, but 'post-Brexit England haunted by green fish-people growing out of toilet bowls' should, uh, whet the appetite -- Rory Scothorne * New Statesman Books of the year * Treads the line between realism and fantasy with immense assurance and draws a portrait of watery, post-Brexit Britain that brings shivers of both unease and recognition -- Jonathan Coe, author of international bestseller Middle England * New Statesman Books of the year * A stunning masterpiece * Paul Cornell * One of the best writers of fiction currently at work in English * Robert MacFarlane * Beautifully written, utterly compelling, and like much of Harrison's works, there are scenes of such sublime strangeness that they linger in the mind long after the novel is over. As such it is another triumph from one of our finest writers, and essential reading for 2020 * Fantasy Hive * Unset tling, brilliant, and pretty much unlike anything anyone else is doing. * Locus * Harrison is a linguistic artist, constructing sentences that wrap and weave like a stream of consciousness without ever breaking focus. * Sci-Fi Paradise * This excellent book may be the most unsettling piece of fiction you read this year... * Shiny New Books * Masterful and deeply affecting. * Locus Magazine * [There is] beauty and precision of [Harrison's] psychogeographic prose. 9.4/10. * Fantasy Book Review * A deeply unsettling fever dream of a novel. 4.5 out of 5. * SFX * Richly textured...slippery and seedy. * The Spectator * Harrison's unsettling and melancholy novel, gritted with farce and dreadful laughter, shouts award-winner on every page. * The Times * The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again is a novel so good all the usual reviewerish superlatives barely seem superlative enough. -- Adam Roberts * Sibilant Fricative * Uncanny and exquisite * Morning Star * Harrison is a linguistic artist, constructing sentences that wrap and weave like a stream of consciousness without ever breaking focus...every sentence is a decadent bite of a new sensation * Sci Fi Now * One of the strangest and most unsettling novels of the year * The Herald * Like reading Thomas Pynchon underwater, this is a book of alienation, atmosphere, half glimpsed revelation - and some of the most beautiful writing you'll ever encounter. * Daily Mail * Unsettling and insinuating, fabulously alert to the spaces between things, Harrison is without peer as a chronicler of the fraught, unsteady state we're in. * The Guardian *