M. John Harrison is a highly respected figure in British genre fiction cited by some of the new wave of writers, most notably China Miéville as a major influence. Harrison has been contributing to the scene since the late sixties and is perhaps best known for his Viriconium series and for The Centauri Device (1974) now widely regarded as a science fiction classic. It has been a while since this writer last ventured into the realms of hard SF and so his new publishers, Gollancz, are quite rightly touting Light as one of their major releases of the year.

(Source: Gollancz)