BBC News reported that M. John Harrison has won this year's Booker Prize for The End of Everything, and that at the age of 81 he becomes the oldest ever winner of the prestigious literary award.

NPR reported, in a piece by Andrew Limbong, that the slim novel is the first Booker Prize winner to have "emerged from the bona fide" science fiction world, according to the chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation.

The New York Times reported, in a report by Alex Marshall, that the novel beat out higher profile books by Marlon James, Elizabeth Strout and Douglas Stuart.

The three outlets describe the book differently. NPR called it an apocalyptic science fiction novel, The New York Times called it a dystopian tale, and BBC News described it as a post-apocalyptic novel, with its headline calling the book "Baffling but brilliant." Each outlet's account of the book's subject matter therefore comes from its own description rather than from a shared summary.

None of the three reports, as summarized in the source material, gives the amount of the prize, the date or place of the announcement, or the reasoning of the judges. NPR, The New York Times and BBC News agree on the central facts that Harrison won the prize and that the novel was chosen over the other titles named in the reports.

Sources: NPR: Apocalyptic sci-fi novel 'The End of Everything' wins this year's Booker Prize; The New York Times: M. John Harrison’s ‘The End of Everything’ Wins Booker Prize; BBC News: 'Baffling but brilliant' post-apocalyptic novel The End of Everything wins Booker Prize.