This year’s Booker Prize winner is (gasp!) a science fiction novel! How fabulous. M. John Harrison won for The End of Everything. I haven’t read it, but now I want to.
The End of Everything can be read as a thriller, a mystery, a satire, a dystopia, a road novel, a work of realism; whatever the reader is looking for can be found here, albeit told at a slant and with a twist. The book offers something for everyone!
And here’s a piece by one of the judges on reading the contenders, and the strange and wondrous experience of swimming through this uniquely human sea.
Judging this year’s Booker prize taught me our humanity cannot be captured by algorithms and data
The before times have come and gone, and we seem to be moving towards something new, but do not yet know what. In the meantime, people will continue to write novels that will console and enchant, challenge and provoke. My year of reading has shown what a gift that can be.
To consider for your to-be-read list!
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