Niall Harrison

Niall Harrison is an independent critic based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He is a former editor of Strange Horizons (www.strangehorizons.com), and his writing has also appeared in The New York Review of Science Fiction, Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, and others. He has been a judge for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and a Guest of Honor at the 2023 British National Science Convention. His collection All These Worlds: Reviews and Essays is forthcoming from Briardene Books.

Dancing on the World’s Thin Crust: On the MIT Press’s Radium Age Series

Niall Harrison reviews three early-20th-century science fiction novels published as part of the MIT Press’s Radium Age series....

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Surfing the Megatext

YOU WOULD THINK, after a career of nearly thirty years, that it would be easy to attach a label to a writer. But over the course of nineteen novels and more than eighty short stories, Paul McAuley has ranged widely, oscillating ...

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The City and the Starved

FOUNDED IN 1997, helmed by Jason Williams (publisher) and Jeremy Lassen (editor-in-chief), Night Shade Books has in the last few years made a concerted and largely successful effort to establish itself as one of SF and fantasy’s talent-spotters. They ...

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