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Does M John Harrison’s Booker win mean science fiction is finally accepted by a ‘snobby’ literary establishment?

Does M John Harrison’s Booker win mean science fiction is finally accepted by a ‘snobby’ literary establishment?
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Kazuo Ishiguro, Jeff VanderMeer, Olivia Laing and other writers weigh in on the publishing world’s genre warsAs M John Harrison was announced as the Booker prize winner on Monday evening, the 81-year-old looked gobsmacked. Decades into his career, and long overlooked by the mainstream literary establishment, he had just won a prize that has never before rewarded a writer known…

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