Listed by the Guardian as one of the top 100 science fiction books of the 21st century.
On the barren surface of an asteroid, located deep in the galaxy beneath the unbearable light of the Kefahuchi Tract, lie three objects: an abandoned spacecraft, a pair of bone dice covered with strange symbols, and a human skeleton.
What they are and what they mean are the mysteries explored and unwrapped in LIGHT, M. John Harrison's triumphant novel.
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
ISBN: 9781473227675
Number of pages: 336
Weight: 240 g
Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 26 mm
This will soon be regarded as one of the most dazzling novels of its genre - Daily TelegraphAn amazing book: not just a triumphant return to science fiction, but an injection of style and content that will light up the genreA singular stylist - Times Literary Supplementa witty and truly imaginative writer - Literary ReviewHarrison is best known as one of the restless fathers of modern SF, but to my mind he is among the most brilliant novelists writing today, with regard to whom the question of genre is an irrelevanceAustere, unflinching and desperately moving, he is one of the very great writers alive today.
I don't think this is the worst book I have ever read but it must be somewhere near the top of the avoid for ever list. I would happily take it to a book burning festival but I doubt the thing would ever burn as... More
Heinlen , Asimov , Van Vogt, Clarke , Banks , Reynolds et al and then you read Light !
The way he portrays the characters you feel that even though they are very weird that they may just live down the road at No 57....
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This is not an easy book to read - at least, not for me. It's not just that the science is pretty heavy, nor that the plot is sometimes confusing, or even that the character's motivations are sometimes... More
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