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Signs of Life (Paperback)

by M.John Harrison (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Flamingo; New Ed edition (20 April 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0006546048
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006546047
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 785,818 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Mick Rose runs a sometimes illegal courier service to the genetics industry. His lover Isobel is dissatisfied - she wants to be more beautiful. When she takes a new DNA-based genetic treatment, Mick finds out more than he wants to know about the goods his firm has been carrying.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars a fine book from a master writer, 30 Jun 2003
By Steven Davis (Stamford, Linc's England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Signs Of Life (Hardcover)
If I had the money I would put a copy of this book in every hotel room in the world. It is a book that contains such fine writing everyone should get a chance to read it.
John M Harrison is a writer at the top of his trade; his use of prose is sublime. Somehow he can convey in four or five words things most writers struggle to tell you in a whole paragraph.
The three main characters are as if written by Picasso bold confident outline with the details rendered minimally but the resulting portrait is more powerful than the most detailed word pictures.
The story is about life love rejection rebirth, I have read this book countless times and the emphasis of the story changes every time I read it.
This is a fine book.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Clever, funny, grim and hopeful, 18 Jan 2000
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This extraordinary story weaves its way from genre to genre--romance, thriller, sf and horror novel--to tease out the dreams, feelings, failures and inner realities of the narrator and his friends. In the west we long ago lost the distinction between the words "dream" and "aspiration": M John Harrison uses the new biotechnology to show very clearly that the two words are not synonymous. If you like a book that delights in *being* a book; if you like a book that thinks; if you want to know what the novel is going to be like in the next millenium; if you'd like to see how it's possible to write a horror-sf-women's romance for men: read this.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Not for everybody., 23 May 1999
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Requires the reader to have a functioning imagination.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Put Down Your Pen
Harrison draws his characters with the intensity and one-pointedness of Disney enamel; the lifedirt collected under fingernails and the fierce clarity of the last thing you... Read more
Published 6 days ago by ThinkerBoy

4.0 out of 5 stars Shades of Cornelius
The only stories to match Moorcock's in the Jerry Cornelius collection The New Nature of the Catastrophe are M. John Harrison's, written in the early 70s. Read more
Published on 5 May 2001

4.0 out of 5 stars Chill, unsettling and rather too plausible
Slapdash irresponsible scientists, criminally negligent couriers, corruption, exploitation and cruelty - these are just the bits sticking up out of this murky water. Read more
Published on 23 Oct 2000 by Jason Mills

5.0 out of 5 stars My best read this year vivid, engaging, frightening, superb
At last a book for adults, the auther has managed to write a tale that combines vivid descriptions and imaginative use of language, making an elegant stucture for the reader to... Read more
Published on 27 Aug 1999

2.0 out of 5 stars What is this book about??
This is abook populated by people with dopey names (China? Choe?) with badly described life itineries. Read more
Published on 5 Mar 1999

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