The fantastic new novel by the author of Angelmaker and The Gone-Away World.
Nick Harkaway was born in Cornwall in 1972. Author of the novels The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker and Tigerman, he lives in London with his wife and two children.
Gnomon is an extraordinary novel, and one I can’t stop thinking
about some weeks after I read it. It is deeply troubling,
magnificently strange, and an exhilarating read.
*Emily St. John Mandel, author of 'Station Eleven'*
Nick Harkaway’s most ambitious novel yet. 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. An enormous, shaggy,
infuriating, amazing and quite unforgettable piece of fiction, it’s
the kind of thing only science fiction can do.
*Guardian, Science-Fiction Books of the Year*
One of the most remarkable things about the remarkable Nick
Harkaway is the irrelevance of his literary heritage. The son of
John le Carré, he is very much his own author ... There’s a lot of
explanation in this book, but then there’s a lot of everything
going on in it. Densely texted pages of ideas, references and
similes fizz and sparkle and burst into life in a fireworks display
that keeps going ... The writing, too, is rarely anything other
than impressive ... Gnomon does reward perseverance. Ludicrously
complicated it may be, but it’s also wonderfully good.
*Sunday Times*
[A] prowling deep-sea monster of a novel … A sci-fi detective
procedural, violent thriller and multi-layered mystery combine
brilliantly to pull us through a profound exploration of power and
paranoia, technology and myth … Harkaway dazzles, baffles and
teases before guiding us through bloody darkness into
understanding.
*Daily Mail*
This huge sci-fi detective novel of ideas is so eccentric, so
audaciously plotted and so completely labyrinthine and bizarre that
I had to put it aside more than once to emit Keanu-like “Whoahs” of
appreciation ... It’s a technological shaggy-dog tale that
threatens to out-Gibson William Gibson ... It is huge fun. And it
will melt your brain … 700 odd pages power relentlessly by, only to
touch down with the delicacy of a SpaceX rocket on – ah yes – the
only possible ending. Whoah indeed. I wanted to give it a round of
applause.
*Spectator*
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