About the author
M. John Harrison is a British novelist, short-story writer, and critic whose work moves between science fiction, fantasy, literary fiction, and forms that resist a stable genre. His major sequences include Viriconium and the Kefahuchi Tract novels.
The End of Everything is concerned with endings at both human and cosmic scale. Harrison keeps the language precise while refusing the consolations and explanatory machinery that a conventional catastrophe story might supply.
Where to start
Start with The End of Everything for a short, concentrated example of Harrison's late style and his distrust of tidy explanations.