M. John Harrison

Michael John Harrison (born in Warwickshire July 26, 1945), also known by his initials MJH, is a UK writer, mainly of science fiction and fantasy.

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Warwickshire - July 26 - 1945 - Science fiction - Fantasy

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He moved to London to became a student teacher during early 1960s and published his first story in 1966 ? but this he later disowned. He sold his first acknowledged story, the low-key "Baa Baa Blocksheep", to the science fiction magazine New Worlds in 1968. From 1968 to 1975 he was literary editor for the magazine.

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A keen rock climber, he wrote the mainstream novel, Climbers (1989), the only work of fiction to ever win the Boardman Tasker Memorial Award.

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Rock climber - Mainstream - Novel - 1989 - Boardman Tasker Memorial Award

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In 1999, Harrison won the Richard Evans Award, created to honor genre fiction authors selected as "highly worthy but insufficiently recognized".

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Harrison's books include several novels and collections including the Viriconium sequence. Under the pseudonym Gabriel King, he and Jane Johnson have written four books with feline heroes.

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