M. John Harrison’s “The End of Everything,” a novel that imagines aliens overrunning Britain, has won the Booker Prize, the prestigious literary award. (Wikipedia) By ALEX MARSHALL When M. John Harrison began his writing career, in the 1960s, he sometimes spoke with other science fiction writers about the genre’s poor reputation. “Why shouldn’t a well written SF be considered to be literary fiction?” he recalled asking, during a recent BBC interview. Some 60 years later, the idea that sci-fi…
