Harrison's first novel, The Committed Men ( 19), is an impressive Post-Holocaust story set in a fractured England, centring physically on the ruins of the motorways, and generating a powerful sense of entropic dismantlement. Further work – except for the Viriconium tales, which have been left separate – was assembled in The Ice Monkey and Other Stories (coll 1983), which includes some sf tales of a striking and obdurate coldness in Travel Arrangements (coll 2000), which contains more fantasy in Things That Never Happen (coll 2003), a career retrospective with some new material and in You Should Come With Me Now: Stories of Ghosts (coll 2017), most of whose contents are concisely and sometimes radiantly abstracted from obedience to genre. At the heart of this story – as in much of Harrison's shorter work from this point onwards – lies a sense that the deepest sin is not to abjure God but to abjure the fullness of the world itself. It is only on understanding the devastating thoroughness of its articulation of Entropy in terms of moral contamination that it can be seen as genuinely radical. Typical fiction from Harrison's early career was assembled in The Machine in Shaft Ten and Other Stories (coll 1975), a volume which reveals its New-Wave provenance in narrative discontinuities and subheads after the fashion of J G Ballard, though the finest story published here, 'Running Down' (in New Worlds 8: The Science Fiction Quarterly, anth 1975, ed Hilary Bailey), is a tale whose surface seems conventional. He also wrote considerable criticism for New Worlds, usually as Joyce Churchill, and served for some time as its literary editor, this material, plus later nonfiction, being assembled as Parietal Games: Critical Writings By and On M John Harrison (anth 2005), a volume which contains, as a kind of extended introduction to his work, a set of essays edited by Mark Bould and Michelle Reid. (1945- ) UK author and rock-climber, who began to publish work of genre interest with 'Marina' for Science Fantasy #81 in February 1966 as by John Harrison he was most closely identified in the 1960s with New Worlds, where he released his first sf story, 'Baa Baa Blocksheep', in November 1968, and for which he later wrote some of the best tales using the Jerry Cornelius template, or Icon, from the series created by Michael Moorcock.

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