M. John Harrison
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4 Quotations from M. John Harrison
| Denebian adj. | 1974 The Centauri Device in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 58/1 He had a loose-limbed Denebian queen…on bass; his drummer was a local man…. He stalked the Denebian bass through the harmonies. |
| dystopic adj. | 1972 The Problem of Sympathy in M. Moorcock New Worlds 4 12 It is in touches like these—parodies and extensions of the new brutalities, the mental and psychic curtailments of liberty practised on the aged, the socially inferior, the helpless—which reveal that a change of emphasis has not simply accompanies but motivated Story’s shift to this kind of dystopic subject matter. |
| light n. 2 | 2002 Light (2004) 12 We have several missions available forty lights down the Beach. |
| New Weird n. | 2002 Introduction in C. Miéville The Tain 3 (heading) China Miéville & the New Weird…. Good fiction has an uncanny quality; and that’s enough to make it ‘fantasy’ and ‘mainstream’ at the same time. Let’s go out there, we might say, meaning, into this mainstream arena, and make the readers uncomfortable. Instead of splitting hairs let’s do some acts of the countermundane. |