Part broken love story, part noir, part far-reaching science fiction, this long awaited sequel to Harrisons groundbreaking "Light" is poised to break out as the science fiction novel of the year.

M. John Harrison is the award-winning author of eight previous novels and four collections of short stories. His fifth novel, Viriconium, was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize and his sixth, Climbers, won the Boardman Tasker Award. Light was recently awarded the James Tiptree Jr. Award and shortlisted for the 2002 Arthur C. Clarke Award.