Parietal Games: Critical Writings by and on M. John Harrison ed. Mark Bould & Michelle Reid (The Science Fiction Foundation, August 2005, 0-903007-05-3, £20.00, 357pp, tp, nf)
Collection of most of M. John Harrison’s critical writings plus some reviews of his books and essays on his work.
- 9 · Foreword · Elizabeth Hand · fw
- 13 · Let’s Make a Little Noise, Colorado: An Introduction in Eight Parts · Mark Bould · in
- 31 · Part A: By M. John Harrison
- 32 · The Einstein Intersection · M. John Harrison · br Speculation #18, May 1968 [Ref. Samuel R. Delany]
- 34 · Bug Jack Barron · M. John Harrison · br Speculation #19, September 1968 [Ref. Norman Spinrad]
- 37 · Body Schema Fantasies: Restoree · M. John Harrison · br Speculation #21, February 1969 [Ref. Anne McCaffrey]
- 39 · The Answer Is Chicago · M. John Harrison · br Speculation #24, September/October 1969 [Ref. Robert A. Heinlein]
- 39 · The Chalk Won’t Stay on the Biscuits: A Dialogue · M. John Harrison · ar Speculation #25, January 1970
- 44 · The Impotence of Being Stagg · M. John Harrison & R. G. Meadley · br New Worlds #184, November 1968
- 46 · The Angle of Attack · M. John Harrison · br New Worlds #185, December 1968, as by Joyce Churchill
- 49 · A Devil of a Job · M. John Harrison · br New Worlds #185, December 1968
- 51 · The Anthology Bag · M. John Harrison · br New Worlds #186, January 1969, as by Joyce Churchill
- 54 · Trouble at t’White House · M. John Harrison · br New Worlds #187, February 1969
- 57 · Mr. Throd and the Wise Old Crocodile · M. John Harrison · br New Worlds #188, March 1969
- 59 · The Cannon Kings · M. John Harrison · br New Worlds #189, April 1969, as by Joyce Churchill
- 62 · Twilight Crucifixion of the Beastly Black Sheep · M. John Harrison · br New Worlds #190, May 1969
- 65 · The Boy from Vietnam · M. John Harrison · br New Worlds #191, June 1969
- 68 · Paperbag · M. John Harrison · br New Worlds #192, July 1969, as by Joyce Churchill
- 70 · Come Alive—You’re in the William Sansom Generation · M. John Harrison · br New Worlds #194, September/October 1969, as by Joyce Churchill
- 73 · The Tangreese Gimmick · M. John Harrison · br New Worlds #195, November 1969
- 75 · Pot Pourri · M. John Harrison · br New Worlds #196, December 1969 [Ref. David Solomon]; review of The Marijuana Papers.
- 77 · Big Brother Is Twenty-One · M. John Harrison · ar New Worlds #197, January 1970, as by Joyce Churchill
- 78 · The Wireless School · M. John Harrison · br New Worlds #197, January 1970
- 80 · Broaden Your Horizons · M. John Harrison · br New Worlds #199, March 1970, as by Joyce Churchill
- 82 · Sawdust and Dead Reads · M. John Harrison · br New Worlds #200, April 1970, as by Joyce Churchill
- 84 · A Literature of Comfort · M. John Harrison · br New Worlds Quarterly ed. Michael Moorcock, Sphere, 1971
- 89 · By Tennyson Out of Disney · M. John Harrison · ar New Worlds Quarterly 2 ed. Michael Moorcock, Sphere, 1971
- 92 · The Black Glak · M. John Harrison · br New Worlds Quarterly 3 ed. Michael Moorcock, Sphere, 1972
- 96 · The Problem of Sympathy · M. John Harrison · br New Worlds Quarterly 4 ed. Michael Moorcock, Sphere, 1972
- 101 · To the Stars and Beyond on the Fabulous Anti-Syntax Drive · M. John Harrison · ar New Worlds Quarterly 5 ed. Michael Moorcock, Sphere, 1973
- 105 · Filling Us Up · M. John Harrison · br New Worlds 6 ed. Michael Moorcock & Charles Platt, Sphere, 1973
- 109 · Absorbing the Miraculous · M. John Harrison · br New Worlds 7 ed. Hilary Bailey & Charles Platt, Sphere, 1974
- 112 · Coming to Life · M. John Harrison · br New Worlds 8 ed. Hilary Bailey, Sphere, 1975
- 117 · Sweet Analytics · M. John Harrison · ar New Worlds 9 ed. Hilary Bailey, Corgi, 1975
- 122 · Science Fiction Book Reviews · M. John Harrison · rc New Manchester Review January 12 1979
- 123 · Science Fiction Book Reviews · M. John Harrison · rc New Manchester Review March 9 1979
- 125 · Science Fiction Book Reviews · M. John Harrison · rc New Manchester Review June 15 1979
- 127 · Science Fiction Book Reviews · M. John Harrison · rc New Manchester Review October 5 1979
- 129 · Science Fiction Book Reviews · M. John Harrison · rc New Manchester Review November 30 1979
- 131 · Science Fiction Book Reviews · M. John Harrison · rc New Manchester Review December 14 1979
- 133 · Port of Saints · M. John Harrison · br Foundation #22, June 1981 [Ref. William S. Burroughs]
- 135 · Kiteworld · M. John Harrison · br Foundation #35, Winter 1985/1986 [Ref. Keith Roberts]
- 138 · The Folk of the Air · M. John Harrison · br Foundation #38, Winter 1986/1987 [Ref. Peter S. Beagle]
- 141 · O-Zone · M. John Harrison · br Foundation #40, Summer 1987 [Ref. Paul Theroux]
- 144 · The Profession of Science Fiction, 40: The Profession of Fiction · M. John Harrison · ar Foundation #46, Autumn 1989
- 154 · Escape from Kathmandu · M. John Harrison · br Foundation #47, Winter 1989/1990 [Ref. Kim Stanley Robinson]
- 157 · The Paradise Motel · M. John Harrison · br Foundation #48, Spring 1990 [Ref. Eric McCormack]
- 158 · Heathern · M. John Harrison · br Foundation #50, Autumn 1990 [Ref. Jack Womack]
- 161 · Halo · M. John Harrison · br Foundation #57, Spring 1993 [Ref. Tom Maddox]
- 163 · Dream Cargoes: War Fever · M. John Harrison · br The Times Literary Supplement November 23 1990 [Ref. J. G. Ballard]
- 165 · Speeding to Cradle from Grave: Time’s Arrow · M. John Harrison · br The Times Literary Supplement September 20 1991 [Ref. Martin Amis]
- 168 · Adrift on a Sea of Stories: The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor · M. John Harrison · br The Times Literary Supplement November 15 1991 [Ref. John Barth]
- 170 · Nerd Into Shaman: Storming the Reality Studio · M. John Harrison · br The Times Literary Supplement March 13 1992 [Ref. Larry McCaffery]
- 172 · Going Into the Void: The Water People · M. John Harrison · br The Times Literary Supplement May 29 1992 [Ref. Joe Simpson]
- 173 · Beating the Retreat: Black Dogs · M. John Harrison · br The Times Literary Supplement June 19 1992 [Ref. Ian McEwan]
- 175 · Following the Embalmer’s Trade: The Picador Book of the New Gothic · M. John Harrison · br The Times Literary Supplement October 9 1992 [Ref. Patrick McGrath & Bradford Morrow]
- 177 · Lifting the Coffin-Lid: Where Does Kissing End? · M. John Harrison · br The Times Literary Supplement November 20 1992 [Ref. Kate Pullinger]
- 179 · Cursors and Presursors: Hands On · M. John Harrison · br The Times Literary Supplement February 26 1993 [Ref. Andrew Rosenheim]
- 180 · Love as Melodrama: Dr Haggard’s Disease · M. John Harrison · br The Times Literary Supplement May 14 1993 [Ref. Patrick McGrath]
- 182 · Here Come the Style Pirates: Virtual Light · M. John Harrison · br The Times Literary Supplement October 1 1993 [Ref. William Gibson]
- 184 · A Southern Child: Crazy in Alabama · M. John Harrison · br The Times Literary Supplement October 29 1993 [Ref. Mark Childress]
- 185 · The Man Who Cut the Rope: Against the Wall · M. John Harrison · br The Times Literary Supplement November 22 1996 [Ref. Simon Yates]
- 187 · On Simian Street with Dr Self: Great Apes · M. John Harrison · br The Times Literary Supplement May 9 1997 [Ref. Will Self]
- 189 · Wars and Lies in Bars: The Story of My Disappearance · M. John Harrison · br The Times Literary Supplement August 29 1997 [Ref. Paul Watkins]
- 191 · Second Time Around: Timequake · M. John Harrison · br The Times Literary Supplement September 26 1997 [Ref. Kurt Vonnegut]
- 194 · Polluted Peak: Into Thin Air & Dark Shadows Falling: The Death Zone · M. John Harrison · br The Times Literary Supplement December 26 1997 [Ref. Jon Krakauer, Joe Simpson & Matt Dickinson]
- 198 · Updike Man Faces the Infinite, Perhaps: Toward the End of Time · M. John Harrison · br The Times Literary Supplement February 6 1998 [Ref. John Updike]
- 201 · We’re Talking Larger’n Life Here: A Man in Full · M. John Harrison · br The Times Literary Supplement November 27 1998 [Ref. Tom Wolfe]
- 205 · That Old Magus: Super-Cannes · M. John Harrison · br The Times Literary Supplement September 8 2000 [Ref. J. G. Ballard]
- 207 · Conversations with a Museum: The Bat Tattoo · M. John Harrison · br The Times Literary Supplement October 18 2002 [Ref. Russell Hoban]
- 212 · Cheerfully Creepy: Seven Tales of Sex and Death · M. John Harrison · br The Times Literary Supplement March 28 2003 [Ref. Patricia Duncker]
- 214 · All the Old Nostalgia: The North of England Home Service · M. John Harrison · br The Times Literary Supplement May 9 2003 [Ref. Gordon Burn]
- 216 · Waiting for the End: These Foolish Things · M. John Harrison · br The Times Literary Supplement February 6 2004 [Ref. Deborah Moggach]
- 219 · From Dream-Scene to Dream-Scene: The Coma · M. John Harrison · br The Times Literary Supplement July 2 2004 [Ref. Alex Garland]
- 222 · Death and the Landscape: The Quarry · M. John Harrison · br The Times Literary Supplement September 10 2004 [Ref. Damon Galgut]
- 224 · Confessions of an Astrophysicist: Redemption Ark · M. John Harrison · br The Guardian August 10 2002 [Ref. Alastair Reynolds]
- 226 · Worlds Apart: The Birthday of the World · M. John Harrison · br The Guardian January 18 2003 [Ref. Ursula K. Le Guin]
- 227 · All Fired Up with Nowhere to Go: China · M. John Harrison · br The Guardian April 19 2003 [Ref. Alan Wall]
- 229 · Meat vs. Machine: Natural History · M. John Harrison · br The Guardian June 7 2003 [Ref. Justina Robson]
- 231 · Rubbing Salt in the Wounds: Thursbitch · M. John Harrison · br The Guardian October 18 2003 [Ref. Alan Garner]
- 233 · Be-Bop-A-Lula, and Lola: Her Name Was Lola · M. John Harrison · br The Guardian November 15 2003 [Ref. Russell Hoban]
- 234 · Rocky the Rasta versus Creosote Man: Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe · M. John Harrison · br The Guardian January 3 2004 [Ref. Will Self]
- 236 · A Memo from the Author to Herself: Brother and Sister · M. John Harrison · br The Guardian February 14 2004 [Ref. Joanna Trollope]
- 238 · Wallander’s World: Firewall · M. John Harrison · br The Guardian April 10 2004 [Ref. Henning Mankell]
- 240 · Muddy Waters: Siren Song · M. John Harrison · br The Guardian June 12 2004 [Ref. Robert Edric]
- 241 · This Boy’s Lives: The Ninth Life of Louis Drax · M. John Harrison · br The Guardian June 26 2004 [Ref. Liz Jensen]
- 243 · Go Tell It Off the Mountain: Touching the Void · M. John Harrison · br The Spectator June 10 1989 [Ref. Joe Simpson]
- 245 · What It Might Be Like to Live in Viriconium · M. John Harrison · ar Fantastic Metropolis October 2001; given as “What Might It Be Like to Live in Viriconium” on the article itself.
- 246 · Tolkien Is Not an Issue · M. John Harrison · ar The Third Alternative #33, Winter 2003
- 248 · Part B: On M. John Harrison
- 249 · A Young Man’s Journey to Ladbroke Grove: M. John Harrison and the Evolution of the New Wave in Britain · Rob Latham · ar
- 265 · Form and Content in The Centauri Device · Rjurik Davidson · ar
- 275 · “All the Cities That There Have Ever Been”: In Viriconium · Nick Freeman · ar
- 290 · Hard Very Severe: M. John Harrison’s Climbers · Graham Sleight · ar
- 299 · Loving the Loss of the World: Tesknota and the Metaphors of the Heart · Graham Fraser · ar
- 319 · Imagine, As That Dolphin, Breathing Light · John Clute · ar
- 323 · Light · Farah Mendlesohn · br
- 326 · Old, Mean and Misanthropic: An Interview with M. John Harrison · Mark Bould · iv Vector November/December 2002
lightly edited transcript of interview conducted on 13th April 2002 at Signs of Life event co-ordinated by BSFA & SFF.
- 343 · About the Contributors · [uncredited] · bg
- 345 · Bibliographies · [uncredited] · bi
- 351 · Index · [uncredited] · ix
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