NICK HARKAWAY is the author of three previous novels, The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker, and Tigerman, as well as a nonfiction work about digital culture, The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World. He is also a regular blogger for The Bookseller's FutureBook website. He lives in London with his wife, a human rights lawyer, and their two children.
A Best Science Fiction Book of 2017 -The Guardian A Pynchonesque mega-novel that periodically calls to mind the films of Inception and The Matrix. . . . What a ride! -The Washington Post 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 Opening a novel by Nick Harkaway feels like stepping into a theme park for the mind-every page you turn brings new delights for the mind and the senses. Gnomon is brilliant and terrifying, full of pleasures big and small. Basically, everything I want in a book. -Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe 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, author of Gun Machine 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 is huge fun. And it will melt your brain. . . Whoah, indeed. I wanted to give it a round of applause. -Tim Martin, The Spectator (London) Beguiling, multilayered, sprawling novel that blends elements of Philip K. Dick-tinged sci-fi, mystery, politics, and literary fiction in a most satisfying brew. . . Fans of Pynchon and William Gibson alike will devour this smart, expertly written bit of literary subversion. -Kirkus (starred review)