Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 9 • Foreword (Parietal Games: Critical Writings by and on M. John Harrison) • essay by Elizabeth Hand
• 13 • Let's Make a Little Noise, Colorado: An Introduction in Eight Parts • essay by Mark Bould
• 32 •   Review: The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany • (1968) • review by M. John Harrison
• 34 •   Review: Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad • (1968) • review by M. John Harrison
• 37 •   Review: Restoree by Anne McCaffrey • (1969) • review by M. John Harrison
• 39 • The Answer Is Chicago • (1969) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 39 • The Chalk Won't Stay on the Biscuits: A Dialogue by M. John Harrison • (1970) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 44 • The Impotence of Being Stagg • (1968) • essay by M. John Harrison and Robert Meadley [as by M. John Harrison and R. G. Meadley]
• 46 • The Angle of Attack • (1968) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 49 • A Devil of a Job • (1968) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 51 • The Anthology Bag • (1969) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 54 • Trouble at t'White House • (1969) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 57 • Mr Throd and the Wise Old Crocodile • (1969) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 59 • The Cannon Kings • (1969) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 62 • Twilight Crucifixion of the Beastly Black Sheep • (1969) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 65 • The Boy from Vietnam • (1969) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 68 • Paperbag • (1969) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 70 • Come Alive - You're in the William Sansom Generation • (1969) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 73 • The Tangreese Gimmick • (1969) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 75 • Pot Pourri • (1969) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 77 • Big Brother Is Twenty-One • (1970) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 78 • The Wireless School • (1970) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 80 • Broaden Your Horizons • (1970) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 82 • Sawdust and Dead Reads • (1970) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 84 • A Literature of Comfort • (1971) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 89 • By Tennyson Out of Disney • (1971) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 92 • The Black Glak • (1972) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 96 • The Problem of Sympathy • (1972) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 101 • To the Stars and Beyond on the Fabulous Anti-Syntax Drive • (1973) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 105 • Filling Us Up • (1973) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 109 • Absorbing the Miraculous • (1974) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 112 • Coming to Life • (1975) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 117 • Sweet Analytics • (1975) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 122 • Science Fiction Book Reviews • (1979) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 133 •   Review: Port of Saints by William S. Burroughs • (1981) • review by M. John Harrison
• 135 •   Review: Kiteworld by Keith Roberts • (1985) • review by M. John Harrison
• 138 •   Review: The Folk of the Air by Peter S. Beagle • (1987) • review by M. John Harrison
• 141 •   Review: O-Zone by Paul Theroux • (1987) • review by M. John Harrison
• 144 • The Profession of Fiction • [The Profession of Science Fiction • 40] • (1989) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 154 •   Review: Escape from Kathmandu by Kim Stanley Robinson • (1990) • review by M. John Harrison
• 157 •   Review: The Paradise Motel by Eric McCormack • (1990) • review by M. John Harrison
• 158 •   Review: Heathern by Jack Womack • (1990) • review by M. John Harrison
• 161 •   Review: Halo by Tom Maddox • (1993) • review by M. John Harrison
• 163 •   Review: War Fever by J. G. Ballard • (1990) • review by M. John Harrison
• 165 •   Review: Time's Arrow by Martin Amis • (1991) • review by M. John Harrison
• 168 •   Review: The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor by John Barth • (1991) • review by M. John Harrison
• 170 •   Review: Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction by Larry McCaffery • (1992) • review by M. John Harrison
• 172 • Review of _The Water People_ (Joe Simpson) • (1992) • short fiction by M. John Harrison
• 173 • Review of _Black Dogs_ (Ian McEwan) • (1992) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 175 •   Review: The New Gothic by Patrick McGrath and Bradford Morrow • (1992) • review by M. John Harrison
• 177 • Review of _Where Does the Kissing End?_ (Kate Pullinger ) • (1992) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 179 • Review of _Hands On_ (Andrew Rosenheim) • (1993) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 180 •   Review: Dr. Haggard's Disease by Patrick McGrath • (1993) • review by M. John Harrison
• 182 •   Review: Virtual Light by William Gibson • (1993) • review by M. John Harrison
• 184 • Review of _Crazy in Alabama_ (Mark Childress) • (1993) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 185 • Review of _Against the Wall_ (Simon Yates) • (1996) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 187 •   Review: Great Apes by Will Self • (1997) • review by M. John Harrison
• 189 • Review of _The Story of My Disappearance_ (Paul Watkins) • (1997) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 191 •   Review: Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • (1997) • review by M. John Harrison
• 194 • Polluted Peak • (1997) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 198 •   Review: Toward the End of Time by John Updike • (1998) • review by M. John Harrison
• 201 • Review of _A Man in Full_ (Tom Wolfe) • (1998) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 205 •   Review: Super-Cannes by J. G. Ballard • (2000) • review by M. John Harrison
• 207 • Review of _The Bat tattoo_ (Russell Hoban) • (2002) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 212 • Review of _Seven Tales of Sex and Death_ (Patricia Duncker) • (2003) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 214 • Review of _The North of England Home Service_ (Gordon Burn) • (2003) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 216 • Review of _These Foolish Things_ (Deborah Moggach) • (2004) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 219 •   Review: The Coma by Alex Garland • (2004) • review by M. John Harrison
• 222 • Review of _The Quarry_ (Damon Galgut) • (2004) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 224 •   Review: Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds • (2002) • review by M. John Harrison
• 226 •   Review: The Birthday of the World by Ursula K. Le Guin • (2003) • review by M. John Harrison
• 227 • Review of _China_ (Alan Wall) • (2003) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 229 •   Review: Natural History by Justina Robson • (2003) • review by M. John Harrison
• 231 • Review of _Thursbitch_ (Alan Gardner) • (2003) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 233 • Review of _Her Name Was Lola_ (Russell Hoban) • (2003) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 234 •   Review: Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe by Will Self • (2004) • review by M. John Harrison
• 236 • Review of _Brother and Sister_ (Joanna Trollope) • (2004) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 238 • Review of _Firewall_ (Henning Mankell) • (2004) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 240 • Review of _Siren Song_ (Robert Edric) • (2004) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 241 • Review of _The Ninth Life of Louis Drax_ (Liz Jensen) • (2004) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 243 • Review of _Touching the Void_ (Joe Simpson) • (1989) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 245 • What Might It Be to Live in Viriconium? • (2001) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 246 • Tolkien Is Not an Issue • (2003) • essay by M. John Harrison
• 249 • A Young Man's Journey to Ladbroke Grove: M. John Harrison and the Evolution of the New Wave in Britain • essay by Rob Latham
• 265 • Form and Content in The Centauri Device • essay by Rjurik Davidson
• 275 • "All the Cities That There Have Ever Been": In Viriconium • essay by Nick Freeman
• 290 • Hard Very Severe: M. John Harrison's Climbers • essay by Graham Sleight
• 299 • Loving the Loss of the World: Tesknota and the Metaphors of the Heart • essay by Graham Fraser
• 319 • Imagine, As That Dolphin, Breathing Light • (2003) • essay by John Clute
• 323 • Light, by M. John Harrison • essay by Farah Mendlesohn
• 326 • Old, Mean and Misanthropic: An Interview with M. John Harrison • interview of M. John Harrison • interview by Mark Bould (variant of Old, Mean and Misanthropic 2002)