An enormous, shaggy, infuriating, amazing and quite unforgettable piece of fiction, it’s the kind of thing only science fiction can do.' (Adam Roberts Guardian, Science-Fiction Books of the Year) This story of near-future mass surveillance, artificial intelligence and human identity reads as if 11 novels have been crowded into a matter-transporter pod, emerging on the other side weirdly melded. 'Nick Harkaway’s most ambitious novel yet. This book seriously just destroyed me with joy.' (Warren Ellis) He’s never written a bad book, but this is the one that’ll see him mentioned in the same breath as William Gibson and David Mitchell. It is an astonishing piece of construction, complex and witty. It is deeply troubling, magnificently strange, and an exhilarating read.' (Emily St.

' Gnomon is an extraordinary novel, and one I can’t stop thinking about some weeks after I read it.

'Sinopsis' puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro. When Neith opens the record of the interrogation, she finds not Hunters mind but four others, none of which can possibly be there: the banker Constantine Kyriakos, pursued by a ghostly shark that eats corporations the alchemist Athenais Karthagonensis, jilted lover of St Augustine of Hippo and mother to his dead son, kidnapped a It is the most democratic of governments, and Neith will protect it with her life. She is a woman in her prime, a stalwart advocate of the System. Mielikki Neith is the investigator charged with discovering how this tragedy occurred. Denounced, arrested and interrogated by a machine that reads your life history from your brain, she dies in custody. She is off the grid in a society where the grid is everything. She runs a lending library and conducts business by barter. Every action is seen, every word is recorded.ĭiana Hunter is a refusenik, a has-been cult novelist who lives in a house with its own Faraday cage: no electronic signals can enter or leave. Near-future Britain is not just a nation under surveillance but one built on it: a radical experiment in personal transparency and ambient direct democracy. is the missing, but somehow logical, link between David Mitchell and Terry Pratchett. Nick Harkaway: bonkers, brilliant and hilarious Effervescent, clever and entirely fantastic. The best thing hes ever written It is an astonishing piece of construction, complex and witty It is a magnificent achievement Hes never written a bad book, but this is the one thatll see him mentioned in the same breath as William Gibson and David Mitchell This book seriously just destroyed me with joy. It is deeply troubling, magnificently strange, and an exhilarating read.' Emily St. 'Gnomon is an extraordinary novel, and one I cant stop thinking about some weeks after I read it.

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