A review by angus_mckeogh
Empty Space: A Haunting by M. John Harrison

2.0

The first installment of the K tract series of novels, Light, was confusing but intriguing. The second book, Nova Swing, was full of cool ideas and read more like a traditional cyberpunk sort of affair. I found this last book, Empty Space, to be utterly confusing and just not comprehensible. I’ll admit to probably not being smart enough to “get it”. But it included lizard people, a long-lost explorer presumed dead emerging from the tract, unresponsive, dead, and/or murdered individuals floating incomprehensibly above the floor, some horse-trading involving the Nova Swing, two-foot long penises, seemingly gratuitous sex, and adult genitalia attached to childlike bodies exuding from the walls. And that’s just part of it. I just didn’t get it, but it wasn’t so boring or uninteresting as to keep me from reading on. So just average. And perhaps a reread at a later date.