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Towards the end of things, someone asked Michael Kearney, 'How do you see yourself spending the first minute of the new millennium?' Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating, Strange, Remarkable Book Nov 18 2003
By Abigail Nussbaum
Format:Paperback
M. John Harrison's Light is indescribable. A mind-warping romp that exists somewhere in the continuum between hard SF and cyberpunk. A cruel, violent story, with a core of pure forgiveness and grace. The story of three throughly unlikable people, who nevertheless earn the reader's affection. At times tragic, at others bitingly sarcastic, and even funny in certain patches. It requires the reader's complete confidence - one must trust that Harrison knows what he's doing. Amazingly, that trust is repaid.

I could try to say a few words about the plot, but to do so seems almost beside the point. A reader cracking open this deceptively slim novel had better not expect anything even approaching a linear plot. Almost to the very end, Harrison keeps his readers befuddled - the best you can hope for is to hang on as he drags you into the deepest, oddest reaches of the galaxy. Then, only a few pages before the end, like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat, Harrison manages to tie it all together.

If you're looking for Sci Fi that breaks the mold, that challenges you, that is as much about inner space as outer space, look no further.

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best Oct 5 2003
By Andy
Format:Paperback
If you like Banks, MacLeod, Mieville, Vinge, McAuley, Stephenson and Gibson, you should read this. As good or better as any of their best. It's hard sf, it's literary - it features rounded sympathetic characters, the vast scale of space opera, suspense, intense sex, lost loves, ghost programs, psycho killers, contract assassins, intergalactic carnivals, aliens, virtual worlds, a singularity, human-machine blendings, science funding battles, subtle pop references, condensed visual imagery, 3 different narrative streams...and a universe of "more...and more after that." Wow.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Tiptree Winner from Harrison Blows the SF Competition Away July 23 2003
By Leigh Blackmore
Format:Paperback
LIGHT by M John Harrison marks a return for this author to science fiction of a genre type - it's a big, thrill-packed space opera that delivers on all the promise of his long-ago CENTAURI DEVICE. Yet simultaneously it retains all the characteristics of his writing since that time - the peculiar take on things that appears in his short stories is present here, with bizarrely-named characters and unexpected ideas aplenty. This novel is a Moebius strip woven of three plots - the quantum physicist and serial killer Kearney and how his fate intersects with that of Seria Mau Genlicher, K-ship pilot; and with that of 'Chianese' Ed, hooked on a strangely addictive form of virtual reality. Behind all this is the shadowy presence of the Shrander, an entity whose agenda is perhaps? made clear by the astounding climax to this novel. It's difficult to rate this book too highly, since it succeeds on so many levels. I was blown away by the visual impact of a scene where a coin is set spinning on its edge as two characters race through a mazelike habitation; and that was but one tiny thread in this complex book. I loved the off-kilter Kray sisters, menacing oddball characters to rival such great Harrison creations from earlier books as Benedict Paucemanly. The light in the Kefahuchi Tract illuminates a book which is a sheer pleasure to read and hits the buttons of both action and literary quality. A must-read!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sparkling
Harrison is a brilliant, whimsical and wholly original writer. Three parallel plot lines frame the storyline here. Read more
Published on Jan 12 2011 by BC Lion
3.0 out of 5 stars Read it with a cheap holo of the Kefahuchi Tract on my wall
It seems like every location 2/3 of the protagonists went SOMEBODY had a cheap holo of the Kefahuchi Tract on the wall, so why not? Read more
Published on Jun 20 2004 by Emperor Norton
2.0 out of 5 stars Glitzy and stylish but somehow ultimately insubstantial
I am a big fan of M. John Harrison, from the Centauri Device through to the Viriconium books which I think are some of the finest fantasy works ever written. Read more
Published on Feb 22 2004 by David Worton
1.0 out of 5 stars a very disappointing read
I bought Light on the strength of reviews and quotes, which I later discover to have been written largely by the author's mates - an apparently prevalent and ethically questionable... Read more
Published on Jan 14 2004
1.0 out of 5 stars Very Confusing
Imagine if you will, turning on your high pressure garden hose only to find you havent got control of it. Read more
Published on Oct 4 2003 by MR M T Payton
3.0 out of 5 stars Britcosmic adventure that didn't inspire me.
I'm afraid I found this book a slight disappointment. If I was a newcomer to SF I might be more impressed, but I've read much better SF before... Read more
Published on Aug 15 2003 by C. I. Black
5.0 out of 5 stars Tiptree Award Winner in 2003!
For baffling reasons, this book is not available in the U.S. It is a remarkable story worth checking out. It won the James A. Tiptree Award in 2003.
Published on May 30 2003
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