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[Comment from Jon Courtenay Grimwood][1]: > Light is the kind of novel other writers read and think: "Why don't I just give up and go home?" That was certainly my first reaction on reading its mix of coldly perfect prose and attractively twisted insanity. It's also the only book to bring me unpleasantly close to sympathising with a serial killer. But this is M John Harrison: so antihero Michael Kearney is a mathematically brilliant, dice-throwing, reality-changing hyper-intelligent serial killer haunted by a horse-skulled personal demon. > Harrison's genius is to tie Kearney's narrative…

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5 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2007
    Spectra · 418 pages · 9780553587333
  • Ebook · English · 2004
    Random House Publishing Group · 9780553900699
  • Other · English · 2019
    Orion Publishing Group, Limited · 336 pages · 9781473227675
  • Other · English · 2004
    Bantam · 310 pages · 9780553382952
  • Other · English · 2002
    Gollancz · 320 pages · 9780575070264
Space and timeFictionScience FictionSerial murderersFiction, science fiction, generalLGBTQ gender identityLGBTQ science fiction & fantasy