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M. John Harrison’s wholly original tale of alien invasion tops columnist Emily H. Wilson’s favourite reads of the year to date THE best science-fiction book of the year so far has only just been published. The End of Everything, by M. John Harrison, is about half the length of a regular novel, but it’s so powerful and complete that there is nothing slight about it. I consumed it in one greedy gulp before getting up one morning. Weird and dangerous flotsam washes up in The End of Everything Phillip hunts for alien artefacts, hoping to sell them, and Marnie is an artist. That sounds simple, but right from the start, our heroes don’t behave as we would expect. …