The Booker prize winner described a dystopian Britain. But haven’t we been living in that since Brexit? | Zoe Williams
But let’s also carve out a space for him on the podium of dystopian fiction, as a writer who can describe an indeterminate future in terms that are both terrifying and sound like a couple of years ago.
Key points
- Its author, M John Harrison, is renowned now for being, at 81, the oldest winner of the award, as well as the first science fiction writer to win it.
- I thought the radio people were discussing Britain post-Brexit, circa 2022.
- Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
Britain was isolated on the world stage and people missed Europe like hell, but weren’t allowed to visit, let alone live there.
In fact, they were talking about the plot of the Booker prize-winning novel The End of Everything.
Additional details
- The government had disintegrated, but everyone was carrying on pretty much as they had before.
- Now all he has to do is persuade his party Earlier this week, some people on the radio were talking about a very British dystopia.
- It didn’t need a novel: even Leave voters understand the damage that has been done, as does the PM.
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