M John Harrison Books in Order

In a ruined Britain of cancer, persecution, and collapsing social order, a small group tries to protect a mutant child. Harrison's debut is brief, bleak, and full of raw post-apocalyptic menace.

Lord tegeus-Cromis leaves retirement to defend Viriconium, a decaying far-future city where forgotten technology looks like magic. What begins as a quest fantasy quickly turns stranger, sadder, and more uneasy.

John Truck, a drifting space pilot and the last usable descendant of a destroyed race, is hunted by rival powers who need him to activate a superweapon. A baroque, cynical space opera with apocalypse on its mind.

Harrison's first collection gathers early stories from Viriconium and beyond. Expect wrecked futures, weird cities, and sharp experiments that already show his taste for disorientation and decay.

Viriconium faces an invasion that feels part alien assault, part change in how reality is seen. Old loyalties and old certainties break down as the city slips deeper into nightmare.

In a city gripped by exhaustion and metaphysical plague, an artist moves through intrigue, decay, and dark comedy. Harrison shifts the series away from heroic adventure toward something dreamlike and unsettling.

These stories turn from overt adventure toward colder, stranger emotional territory. The collection mixes realism, the uncanny, and speculative elements while tracking loneliness, obsession, and the stubborn weight of the real.

These linked stories wander through Viriconium's streets, masks, and failures, showing the city from oblique angles. Together they make the setting feel more haunted, unstable, and unforgettable.

After a broken marriage, Mike is drawn into the obsessive world of northern English rock climbers. Harrison makes cliffs, friendship, risk, and emotional drift feel equally hard to navigate.

This graphic collaboration with Ian Miller adapts one of Harrison's most vivid Viriconium stories. A feverish city, bad luck, and grotesque imagery combine in a short, nightmarish descent.

Years after a student ritual went wrong, four people are still marked by what happened, even if none of them can fully remember it. A strange, intimate novel of dread, desire, and damaged transcendence.

Mick China Rose runs a courier service on the edges of the genetics industry and falls for Isobel Avens, a woman who longs to fly. Love, biotech, and obsession tangle in a near-future England gone sour.

House cat Tag gets lost in London's streets and discovers the Wild Road, a hidden network used by animals across time and space. To save the cat kingdom, he must find the king and queen before the Alchemist does.

A prophecy, missing golden kittens, and a threat to the Wild Road send Tag and his allies on a wider quest. The sequel keeps the feline fantasy charm but raises the danger and scale.

A later collection of oblique, unsettling stories in which fantasy and realism keep bleeding together. These pieces are less about neat twists than atmosphere, desire, and the feeling that the world has slipped sideways.

Anna Prescott arrives in Ashmore hoping for a fresh start, only to find strange neighbours, dream-haunted secrets, and two kittens who pull her deeper in. A linked gothic fantasy where the Wild Road runs close to ordinary life.

A serial-killer physicist in 1999 London, a rogue K ship pilot, and a washed-up future adventurer circle the mystery of the Kefahuchi Tract. Harrison turns space opera into something darker, stranger, and deeply human.

John Dawe inherits the manor house Nonesuch, but the old place brings fire, grief, family secrets, and a mounting sense of dread. This darker linked novel folds cats, dreams, and haunted domestic life together.

Harrison's career-spanning selected stories brings together science fiction, fantasy, and the uncanny in one sharp volume. It is one of the best places to see his range, from early genre work to later, stranger pieces.

This omnibus brings together The Course of the Heart and Signs of Life, two unsettling novels about obsession, desire, and altered reality. It is a strong way to see Harrison's 1990s fiction side by side.

On Saudade, the strange Event is leaking bad physics into everyday life. Illegal guide Vic Serotonin takes one last job and gets pulled into murder, contraband artefacts, and reality itself coming loose.

The last Kefahuchi Tract novel loops together several broken lives across future space and a damaged contemporary world. It is less about answers than obsession, haunting, and what happens when reality refuses to stay stable.

Set around a fractured coastal landscape and an old disappearance, this long story follows Julia through grief, damaged memory, and the uncanny pressure of place. Harrison keeps the mystery close and the explanations just out of reach.

An unemployed middle-aged man named Shaw is drawn into maps, seances, and a cult around Annie Swan and her brother Tim. What starts as shabby suburbia opens onto older, stranger forms of life.

This collection of ghost stories is ghostly in the broadest Harrison sense: uneasy, funny, modern, and hard to pin down. The hauntings come through failed relationships, altered places, and reality turning suddenly porous.

Drawn from five decades of work, this selected stories volume follows Harrison's recurring obsessions with maps, portals, damaged lives, and the unknowable. It is a broad, rewarding survey of how his fiction changes and rhymes.

Shaw and Victoria drift through a waterlogged, uneasy England where conspiracy theories, old stories, and something nonhuman keep pressing at the edges. Quietly creepy, funny, and hard to shake.

Part memoir, part notebook, part argument with the idea of memoir itself, this anti-memoir looks at childhood, writing, memory, and self-invention. It is fragmentary, sly, and often very funny.