Keywords: Weird fiction, science fiction, quantum fiction, uncanny, hauntology, M. Moreover, recurring markers in the texts point towards each narrative's being embedded in an overarching theme that connects most of Harrison's fiction, which is the notion of secondary world fantasy literature as escapism - presented in a way that is clearly anti-escapist. It exists in an entangled intermediate state, and only the reader's interpretation creates one fixed meaning. Both approaches are equally valid since the Tract is presented as a quantum phenomenon. From a writer acclaimed for his high-concept SF and stunning prose comes the final chapter in the multi-award-winning trilogy that began with Light and Nova Swing This space adventures begins with the following dream: An alien research tool the size of a brown dwarf star hangs in the middle of nowhere, as a result of an attempt to place it equidistant from everything else in every possible. Secondly, as a literary phenomenon, a psychological journey. Firstly, stressing the 'science' in science fiction, as a black hole without an event horizon, affecting all of reality and preserving old data.

I will present several ways of reading the Tract. Still, the Tract is characterised as essentially Weird. John Harrison's Empty Space trilogy. Many instances of Tract activity follow the conventions of a classic haunting. I will discuss the exception to this rigorous division, namely the Kefahuchi Tract, the central mystery in M. However, those categories are connected by the sublime, a quantum state that can collapse into either awe or horror. John Harrison's Empty Space Trilogy and Weird Theory' by Christina Scholz has been published in the current issue of Textual Practice (Routledge).Ĭhina Miéville states that since the concepts of Hauntology and Weird are diametrically opposed, only one of them can be attributed to any literary phenomenon at a time.

Empty Space by M. John Harrison