Series
Kefahuchi Tract Trilogy
M. John Harrison · 3 novels · 2002–2012
M. John Harrison's Kefahuchi Tract trilogy circles a strange, physics-breaking anomaly in deep space that draws scientists, smugglers, and drifters into its pull across different eras. Light moves between a near-future timeline and a far-future one drawn to the Tract itself; its sequel Nova Swing stays within one future period, where a fragment of the anomaly's altered space bleeds into the run-down port city of Saudade, giving the book a noir, Roadside-Picnic-like atmosphere; Empty Space concludes the sequence. The three novels share a setting and mood more than a continuous plot or cast.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Kefahuchi Tract Trilogy at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2000s2
- 2010s1
Shape
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Lightdarkest · calmest
- Nova Swingbrightest
- Empty Spacemost intense