What is left to the inhabitants is a sort of clinging to the past. The Kefahuchi Tract is the frontier of everything, beyond science as a source of understanding, beyond definitions of humanity. He takes the hardest of hard far-out futuristic concepts to the point that even the future people don’t understand what is going on around them, something that usually inspires awe in very serious SF books, and Harrison plays with them in a story that frames the entire future and the human condition in a lovingly mocking way.Įmpty Space has multiple meanings.
It is just an SF environment to play with, or to react against.
Harrison does not seem to take it seriously as a possible future. In this crazy future, humanity will be the same tragicomical mess that it is today, with all the same typical people. Whereas the previous volumes could be read independently from one another, this one embraces both. Loosely connected to the previous books, Empty Space follows three timelines which feature characters from both Light (2002), such as Anna Kearney, and Nova Swing (2006) like Fat Antoyne. John Harrison’s magisterial Kefahuchi Tract series. Empty Space is the third and final entry in M.
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