My name is Mike Harrison.
My first novel, The Committed Men, was published by Hutchinson New Authors in 1971. In Viriconium was nominated for the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1982. It was followed by two collections of short stories, The Ice Monkey, 1984, and Viriconium Nights, 1985. Climbers, 1989, won the Boardman Tasker Memorial Award. The Luck in the Head, 1991, a collaboration with Ian Miller, was a graphic novel based on one of the Viriconium short stories.
The Course of the Heart was published in 1992, followed by Signs of Life in 1997. A comprehensive collection of short stories, Things That Never Happen, and Light, a science fiction novel, appeared in 2002. Light was co-winner of the 2003 James Tiptree Memorial Award. Nova Swing, 2006, won the Arthur C Clarke Award in 2007 and the Philip K Dick Award in 2008.
My short stories have appeared in a range of venues including the Times Literary Supplement, Time Out, & The Independent on Sunday. I review fiction for the TLS & the Guardian. In 2003 I was on the jury of the Michael Powell Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival; in 2009, I shared with Sarah Hall & Nicholas Royle the pleasure of judging the Manchester Fiction Prize.
I am working on a new book. My website is here.
Photo: Cath Phillips
