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Source Back in June, our science fiction columnist Emily H. Wilson made a bold claim: M. John Harrison’s The End of Everything was not only “the best science-fiction book of the year so far”, but also a “wholly original… work of genius”. Not only has Emily been proved right, but perhaps she didn’t go quite far enough. This story of an alien invasion won the Booker prize last night, making it – in the Booker judges’ opinion, at least – not just the best science fiction book of the year so far, but the best novel in any genre of the year. New Scientist I haven’t read it. Have any here?

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