Editing M. John Harrison (section)

==Style==
His work has been acclaimed by writers including [[Angela Carter]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thewhitereview.org/reviews/m-john-harrisons-come-now/|title = M. John Harrison's 'You Should Come with Me Now'}}</ref> [[Neil Gaiman]],<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UHA5DwAAQBAJ|title=You Should Come with Me Now: Stories of Ghosts|isbn=9781910974346|last1=John Harrison|first1=M.|date=23 November 2017|publisher=Comma Press }}</ref> [[Iain Banks]] (who called him "a Zen master of prose"),<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HhFwh3sVqTwC&q=Zen+master+m+john+Harrison&pg=PT1|title = The Centauri Device|isbn = 9780575088054|last1 = John Harrison|first1 = M.|date = 30 December 2010| publisher=Orion }}</ref> [[China Miéville]],<ref>"A lot of literary fiction has become its own cliché and it's become very mannered. Of course there's a lot of appallingly bad pulp fiction but when this stuff finds something new and locates itself as part of the tradition it's as good as anything. There are some writers in that tradition in terms of their use of language who as prose stylists are the equal of anyone alive. I'm thinking of people like John Crowley, M John Harrison, Gene Wolfe." {{cite web |last=Marshall | first=Richard | title=The Road to Perdido: An Interview with China Mieville |url=http://www.3ammagazine.com/litarchives/2003/feb/interview_china_mieville.html |website=3:AM Magazine |access-date=2020-01-20}}</ref> [[William Gibson]],<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s-ARrgEACAAJ|title=The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again|isbn=9780575096363|last1=John Harrison|first1=M.|date=15 April 2021|publisher=Orion Publishing Group, Limited }}</ref> [[Robert Macfarlane (writer)|Robert Macfarlane]]<ref name=macfarlane /> and [[Clive Barker]], who has referred to him as "a blazing original".<ref>{{Cite web |title=M. John Harrison Books {{!}} Page 1 {{!}} World of Books |url=https://www.wob.com/en-gb/books/author/m-john-harrison |access-date=2024-06-11 |website=www.wob.com}}</ref> [[Olivia Laing]] has said of him: "No one alive can write sentences as he can. He’s the missing evolutionary link between William Burroughs and Virginia Woolf".<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-06-19|title=The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M John Harrison review – brilliantly unsettling|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/19/the-sunken-land-begins-to-rise-again-by-m-john-harrison-review-brilliantly-unsettling|access-date=2020-08-03|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> In a ''Locus'' magazine interview, Harrison describes his work as "a deliberate intention to illustrate human values by describing their absence."<ref>{{Cite web |title="Вирикониум" от М. Джон Харисън - Стивън Кинг : Тъмната кула |url=https://www.forum.king-bg.info/viewtopic.php?t=2716 |access-date=2024-06-11 |website=www.forum.king-bg.info}}</ref>

Many of Harrison's novels include expansions or reworkings of previously published short stories. For instance, "The Ice Monkey" (title story of the collection) provides the basis for the novel ''Climbers'' (1989); the novel ''The Course of the Heart'' (1992) is based on his short story "The Great God Pan". The story  "Isobel Avens Returns to Stepney in the Spring" is expanded as the novel ''Signs of Life'' (1996); the short story "Anima", first published in ''Interzone'' magazine, also forms one of the central thematic threads of ''Signs of Life''.

In interviews, Harrison has described himself as an anarchist,<ref>[http://www.anarchistfiction.net/m-john-harrison/ Spectrum SF interview] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100127204926/http://www.anarchistfiction.net/m-john-harrison/ |date=27 January 2010 }}</ref> and Michael Moorcock wrote in an essay entitled "Starship Stormtroopers" that, "His books are full of anarchists &ndash; some of them very bizarre like the anarchist aesthetes of ''The Centauri Device''."<ref>{{cite web|last=Moorcock| first=Michael| url=http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/moorcock.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021224193414/http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/moorcock.html | archive-date=2002-12-24| title=Starship Stormtroopers| year=1977| access-date=2006-03-04}}</ref>