Nova Swing

By: M. John Harrison

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Paperback | 14 May 2026 | Edition Number 1

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"An awesomely fluent and versatile prose stylist" - INDEPENDENT

"Amazing achievement ... Harrison pulls off the almost impossible feat of seamlessly blending hard sci-fi, cyberpunk, noir crime ... while doing what all the best literature does" - Goodreads Reviewer

Set in the unique world, first featured in the award-winning Light, here is a story of love, murder, and intergalactic noir on the razors edge of the imagination, as envisioned by the incomparable M. John Harrison.

In a neighbourhood of underground clubs, body-modification chop shops, adolescent contract killers, and sexy streetwalking Monas, you'll find the Saudade Event - a zone of strange geography, twisted physics, and frightening psychic onslaughts.

Vic Serotonin is a travel agent, arranging illegal travel to and from Saudade. His latest client wants a tour and she is a woman as unpredictable as the site itself, and maybe just as dangerous. Coincidentally, a troubling new class of semi-biological artefacts start finding their way out of the site, transforming the real world in unsettling ways. Pursued by a detective intent on collaring him for his illegal tours, and hunted by a gangster convinced that the travel agent has infected him with a rogue artefact, Vic must make one final trip as the universe around him rapidly veers toward viral chaos

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An awesomely fluent and versatile prose stylist - INDEPENDENT

LIGHT is a novel of visionary power - TLS

I think this will soon be regarded as one of the most dazzling novels of its genre - DAILY TELEGRAPH

An amazing book: not just a triumphant return to science fiction, but an injection of style and content that will light up the genre - Michael Marshall Smith (aka Michael Marshall), bestselling author of THE STRAW MEN

LIGHT is brilliant - Iain M. Banks

A sequel to the bestselling LIGHT, 'a novel of full-spectrum literary dominance - GUARDIAN

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