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Title: Empty Space: A Haunting

Author: M. John Harrison

Narrator: Graeme Malcolm

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

One of science fictions premiere stylists, M. John Harrison has received abundant praise and awards for his wildly imaginative ideas and transcendent prose. Now he returns to the richly complex universe of Light and Nova Swing with a stunning new novel that braids three glittering strands into a tapestry that spans vast reaches of time and space.

In the near future, an elderly English widow is stirred from her mundane existence by surreal omens and visitations. Centuries later, the space freighter Nova Swing takes on an illegal alien artifact as cargo, with consequences beyond reckoning. While on a distant planet, a nameless policewoman tries to bring order to an event zone where ordinary physics do not apply, only to find herself caught up in something even stranger and more sublime....

Editorial Reviews:

A mysterious and beautiful work of literary sci-fi, Empty Space: A Haunting takes listeners on a journey that moves back and forth in time, space, and mood, from a warm cup of tea in an English train station to the frigid vastness of space. Performer Graeme Malcolm's lush voice and lovely accent is a perfect fit for the complicated but gorgeous tale. While the three interwoven plots resist neat conclusions, a fact that may frustrate some listeners, the real highlight is M. John Harrison's masterful, finely-tuned prose.

Members Reviews:

Loved his other work...

If you're a "sit down and read the whole book in one or two sessions" kinda person, then you may understand it. I read it over a period of several weeks, and he lost me somewhere. When I read the ending it made no sense. Yet when I read Light, I not only got the ending, I was moved to tears. Maybe it's me.

Its Okay

I found myself reading a bit, growing tired of the vague and obtuse story line, reading some other book, then coming back and finally finishing. Yeah, John has a good grasp of the English language, and what is he trying to convey, a good story or a triumph of vagueness, in which to illustrate confounding aspects of the Tract. Interesting in some ways, frustrating in others.

Definitely rereadable

Loved "Light" the first in this series and "Nova Swing" was OK but needs another look after finishing on this high note... M J Harrison's style being kind of Faulkner-esk there's a stream of consciousness thing mixed with hard technology space opera is an acquired taste I guess but it hits the spot...highly recommended after starting at the beginning...

Quantum Poltergeists

After the introductory 'Light' and the dull 'Nova Swing', I expected the pace to pick up and the final part of the trilogy to result in a thrilling denouement.

Despite the fast pace of events from the present to the future and all other possible spatial and temporal dimensions, the ending was a damp squib.

So what was the Kefahuchi Tract? Can someone elucidate. Besides vomit, mucus, pointless sex, cats and a series of elevated rotating dead bodies not much seemed to happen at the end.

Despite the vast potential when playing around with quantum stuff this was a real let down!

Great book and so finely crafted.

M John Harrison's prose is so finely crafted that, as you read it, you know you're experiencing something extremely important. Empty Space is no different, and is perhaps near the pinnacle of his craft.