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'The End of Everything’ by M. John Harrison wins the 2026 Booker Prize for fiction
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Booker Prize: 2 developments since Mon 9 Nov.Why it’s moving
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M. John Harrison's slim novel is the first Booker Prize winner that's "emerged from the bona fide [sci-fi] world," according to the Booker Prize Foundation's chief executive.
ABC News didn’t include a summary, so this is NPR’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: M. John Harrison
Michael John Harrison, known for publication purposes primarily as M. John Harrison, is an English author and literary critic. His work includes the Viriconium sequence of novels and short stories (1971–1984), Climbers (1989), and the Kefahuchi Tract trilogy, which consists of Light (2002), Nova Swing (2006) and Empty Space (2012). His novel The End of Everything won the Booker Prize in 2026.4
The bigger story: Booker Prize
2 developments since Mon 9 Nov. 1 more since this one.
A Sci-Fi Novel Just Won the Booker Prize for the First Time
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2 newsrooms. Linked by John Harrison, writer, become, oldest, ever, winner
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Photo: Virtual Futures, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (licence)
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ABC News: 'The End of Everything’ by M. John Harrison wins the 2026 Booker Prize for fiction
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NPR: Apocalyptic sci-fi novel 'The End of Everything' wins this year's Booker Prize
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Background: “M. John Harrison”, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 (licence)
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