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The Guardian view on M John Harrison’s Booker win: a new frontier for science fiction | Editorial

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The Guardian view on M John Harrison’s Booker win: a new frontier for science fiction | Editorial
"The End of Everything is a novel for our age of permacrisis. Genre boundaries belong to the past “Science fiction will never be Literature with a capital ‘L,’” began a New York Times review of Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake back in 2003. Now, the seemingly impossible has happened – M John Harrison’s The End of Everything is the first science fiction novel to win the Booker prize. Fans have hailed this as a victory for a long-marginalised genre. The author himself was not so sure. “Writin"

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