The End of Everything by M. John Harrison
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- M. John Harrison's short story 'The Crisis' features ambiguous alien-like entities called the iGhetti that transform London into a spectral zone, yet society largely ignores them.
- In Harrison's novel 'The End of Everything', set in the 2040s, collective denial of disaster continues as coastal towns maintain normalcy despite routine violence and collapse.
- The protagonist Phillip Tennent discovers a mysterious biological artefact from the iGhetti, which grows and learns, becoming a central enigma in the plot.
- Harrison's writing emphasizes ordinary experience and the inexplicable, rejecting linear plotting and legible motives in favor of dreamy puzzlement.
- The novel reflects Harrison's belief that science fiction should embrace the inexplicable, not the explicable, challenging readers to accept ambiguity.