M. John Harrison, a renowned SF visionary from Warwickshire, presents an exclusive extract from his forthcoming novel ‘The End of Everything,’ published by The Quietus in June 2026. The narrative depicts a post-apocalyptic coastal English village in Kent following societal collapse and economic devastation. After a decade of confusion marked by population decline and climate shifts, a small seaside town—previously dependent on tourism, medieval heritage sites, and retirement communities—gradually decays into abandonment. The passage portrays environmental degradation, infrastructural abandonment, and social disintegration through meticulous description of landscape transformation: former gift shops and retirement suburbs now abut mudbanks and debris-strewn rivers following catastrophic flooding during conflict with the ‘iGhetti.’ Harrison’s characteristic sparse, observational prose captures temporal dislocation and geographic transformation, emphasizing humanity’s fragile relationship with coastal spaces and the slow erasure of leisure-culture infrastructure under ecological and social pressures.
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