An amazing and quite unforgettable piece of fiction. story of near-future mass surveillance, artificial intelligence and human identity. 'Nick Harkaway’s most ambitious novel yet. It is deeply troubling, magnificently strange, and an exhilarating read.' Emily St. Gnomon by Nick Harkaway: 9780525432937 : Books From the widely acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World and Tigerman, comes a virtuosic new novel set in a near-future, high-tech surveillance state, that. 'Gnomon is an extraordinary novel, and one I can’t stop thinking about some weeks after I read it.

The staggering consequences of what she finds will reverberate throughout the world. Immersing herself in neural recordings of the interrogation, what she finds isn't Hunter but rather a panorama of characters within Hunter's psyche.Įmbedded in the memories of these impossible lives lies a code which Neith must decipher to find out what Hunter is hiding. Mielikki Neith, a trusted state inspector, is assigned to find out what went wrong. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. When suspected dissident Diana Hunter dies in custody, it marks the first time a citizen has been killed during an interrogation. Gnomon: A novel - Ebook written by Nick Harkaway. Near-future Britain is a state in which citizens are constantly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of 'transparency.' Every action is seen, every word is recorded and the System has access to thoughts and memories. Random House presents the audiobook edition of Gnomon, written by Nick Harkaway, read by Ben Onwukwe.

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