This chapter opens the collection by challenging the widespread assumptions that postmodernism is over as a literary period, and waning in its value as a critical framework. While we have moved beyond the late-twentieth century ‘peak’ period of postmodernism, its legacy continues to actually quite a notable degree in contemporary British fiction, and postmodernism remains a valuable paradigm to anyone seeking to make sense of prominent currents within twentieth- and twenty-first century British fiction.