![]() ![]() 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.’ Independent ![]() ‘Nick Harkaway: bonkers, brilliant and hilarious … Effervescent, clever and entirely fantastic.’ Sunday Times ‘The best thing he’s ever written … It is an astonishing piece of construction, complex and witty … It is a magnificent achievement … 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 … This book seriously just destroyed me with joy.’ Warren Ellis 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. ![]()
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