The End of Everything

Confounding, brilliant … What drives it is the tension from all that strangeness being reported in calm, often drily witty prose * Times *
Dreamlike and baffling, The End of Everything elucidates humanity’s disintegrating existence with strange clarity – Michel Faber * Guardian *
Extremely beautiful and terrifyingly remote. Reading it hit me like a truck … It’s a novel that destabilises you - quite savagely - in the course of its reading. But you’re absolutely not walking away. You’re locked in, and you’re having the time of your life – Helen Macdonald * Observer *
Fascinating, thoroughly original…a masterly exercise in restraint, unsettling beauty and elliptical writing that can enlighten even when it obfuscates * The New York Times *
A memorable, haunting work … a world that’s all the more uncanny on account of its proximity to our own * Irish Times *
Harrison isn’t weirder than most other writers, just better. Reading The End of Everything, you feel you’re not so much reading as dreaming – 5-star review * Telegraph *
A bracing vision * Spectator *
This is a formidable book: dusky, casually horrifying, unexpectedly compassionate * Financial Times *
A work of genius * New Scientist *
A work of uncanny beauty, tender and terrifying in equal parts * Literary Review *
To take the boisterous trope of the “alien invasion” and render it into this visionary and brilliant investigation of anxious times is breath-taking chutzpah. Of which we are lucky to be the beneficiaries – China Miéville
This is powerful stuff … thrilling and disturbing – Mark Haddon
The End Of Everything is at once surreal, seductive, shrewdly funny and wholly terrifying. It proves (yet again) that M. John Harrison is a complete original, and one of the finest working writers we have – Julia Armfield
The End of Everything, a novel of absences and apparitions, of things almost recognised and far from understood, has little to do with the details, and everything to do with the tenor of how we live now. It will get deep into your bones – Chris Power
M John Harrison writes astonishingly on the page of course, but he must also be doing something else. This book is both a dream and the dream state itself. I don’t know what else to say - it feels beyond reading. Disturbing and yet revelatory. He’s changed the world here.” – Ben Pester, author of The Expansion Project
Reminded me of J. G. Ballard … an addictive, obsessive and digressionary novel about the mundanity of post-apocalyptic life, lives we might be living already * The International Times *
His deranged images and impeccably glazed sentences create a powerful sense of puzzlement or terror without his having to spell it out * London Review of Books *
An eerie, speculative novel of crisis and its aftermath * iNews Best New Books of June 2026 *
A master of decaying world futurism with a style to match, deserves every plaudit he gets * Private Eye *
This book perturbs for all the right reasons. It fits the genre-fiction bill for a post-apocalyptic sci-fi book while also conducting a profound, non-prescriptive meditation on the present day * Nerve *
Has something of the vibes of Philip K. Dick’s Ubik … a thrilling, bravura section mid-way through that’s amongst the best things you’ll read all year * Shortlist *
Brilliantly destabilising, this is weird fiction of the very highest order * Observer, Best Summer Books *
A singular, exceptional writer … he is the laureate of the liminal, the arch-mage of the margin, our edgiest genius * Scotsman *
Praise for M. John Harrison * : *
M. John Harrison is the closest thing we have to a present-day Wyndham or Ballard * New Statesman *
Harrison is without peer as a chronicler of the fraught, unsteady state we’re in – Olivia Laing
One of the best writers of fiction currently at work in English – Robert Macfarlane
With M. John Harrison, you’re never quite sure what you’re reading or where it will take you next. There are only a few certainties: that it will surprise you, sometimes astound you, and leave you profoundly changed’ – Jonathan Coe, author of The Rotters’ Club
M. John Harrison, the best British writer you’ve never heard of, operates on the margins. Unusual and impressive * Sunday Times *
Future critics will find in his writing a distinct, clear-eyed vision of late-twentieth and early-twenty-first-century life * Times Literary Supplement *
A towering genius of modern fiction – China Miéville

M. John Harrison is the award-winning author of many novels, including The Centauri Device, Climbers, The Course of the Heart, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, and Nova Swing. He has won the Boardman Tasker Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the Goldsmiths Prize. He lives in Shropshire.

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