Nick Harkaway

A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR '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. [A] story of near-future mass surveillance, artificial intelligence and human identity ... An amazing and quite unforgettable piece of fiction.' Guardian 'Harkaway dazzles.' Daily Mail 'Wonderfully good.' Sunday Times 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. When suspected dissident Diana Hunter dies in custody, it marks the first time a citizen has been killed during an interrogation. Mielikki Neith, a trusted state inspector, is assigned to find out what went wrong. Immersing herself in neural recordings of the interrogation, what she finds isn't Hunter but rather a panorama of characters within Hunter's psyche. Embedded in the memories of these impossible lives lies a code which Neith must decipher to find out what Hunter is hiding. The staggering consequences of what she finds will reverberate throughout the world.

Gnomon

Assigned to a ceremonial post in Mancreu, British consul and Afghanistan war veteran Lester Ferris is compelled to disregard widespread underworld activities while bonding with a comic-addicted youth who during a violent uprising desperately relies on him for help. By the award-winning author of Angelmaker.

A Novel

Tigerman

With a fire burning along the Jorgmund Pipe, Gonzo Lubitsch and his colleagues at the Haulage and HazMat Emergency Civil Freebooting Company are hired to put it out--and to save humankind in the process.

The Gone-Away World

From the author of The Gone-Away World and the forthcoming Angelmaker—an exhilarating espionage murder-mystery eShort. There has been a strange death in the quiet village of Shrewton: old Donny Caspian has lost his head. In the Copper Kettle tea rooms, Tom Rice, a junior nobody from the Treasury, puzzles over the details of the case. He has been sent by his superiors to oversee the investigation, but is he supposed to help or hinder? At the next table, octogenarian superspy Edie Banister nibbles a slice of cake and struggles not to become Miss Marple. But what is the connection between the two? Who killed Donny Caspian, and why? Taking in Rice's present and Edie's daring past, from duels on shipboard to death in back alleys, “Edie Investigates” is a superb short story from the incomparable Nick Harkaway. Also included with this short, the first chapter of Nick Harkaway's long-awaited new novel Angelmaker.

Edie Investigates

The digital age. An age of isolation, warped communication, disintegrating community. Where unfiltered and unregulated information pours relentlessly into our lives, destroying what it means to be human. Or an age of marvels. Where there is a world of wonder at our fingertips. Where we can communicate across the globe, learn in the blink of an eye, pull down the barriers that divide us and move forward together. Whatever your reaction to technological culture, the speed with which our world is changing is both mesmerising and challenging. In The Blind Giant, novelist and tech blogger Nick Harkaway draws together fascinating and disparate ideas to challenge the notion that digital culture is the source of all our modern ills, while at the same time showing where the dangers are real and suggesting how they can be combated. Ultimately, the choice is ours: engage with the machines that we have created, or risk creating a world which is designed for corporations and computers rather than people. This is an essential handbook for everyone trying to be human in a digital age.

Being Human in a Digital World

The Blind Giant

Il mondo dopo la fine del mondo

From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World - a new riveting action spy thriller, blistering gangster noir, and howling absurdist comedy: a propulsively entertaining tale about a mobster's son and a retired secret agent who are forced to team up to save the world. All Joe Spork wants is a quiet life. He repairs clockwork and lives above his shop in a wet, unknown bit of London. The bills don't always get paid and he's single and has no prospects of improving his lot, but at least he's not trying to compete with the reputation of Mathew "Tommy Gun" Spork, his infamous criminal dad. Edie Banister lives quietly and wishes she didn't. She's nearly ninety and remembers when she wasn't. She's a former superspy and now she's... well... old. Worse yet, the things she fought to save don't seem to exist anymore, and she's beginning to wonder if they ever did. When Joe fixes one particularly unusual device, his life is suddenly upended. The client? Unknown. And the device? It's a 1950s doomsday machine. And having triggered it, Joe now faces the wrath of both the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator, Edie's old arch-nemesis. With Joe's once-quiet world now populated with mad monks, psychopathic serial killers, scientific geniuses and threats to the future of conscious life in the universe, he realises that the only way to survive is to muster the courage to fight, help Edie complete a mission she gave up years ago, and pick up his father's old gun...

Angelmaker

The River of the Rich imagines a world in which there is a medical process which changes people into stronger, smarter, bigger humans, with a much longer lifespan - known as Titans.But the procedure is incredibly expensive, so only a very small number of people in the world are able to afford it. The rest of the world both envy and hate them.When Cal Sounder takes on a specialist role of being the go-to detective whenever a crime is committed involving a Titan, he finds it relatively easy to keep the peace, most of the time. But then along comes a case which threatens to expose all the carefully managed tensions of society at large...

Titanium Noir

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel - the story of a detective investigating the murder of a Titan, one of society's most powerful, medically-enhanced elites. 'A highly entertaining, satisfying blend of classic detective noir and inventive speculative fiction' the Guardian 'Cross-genre brilliance from the superbly talented Nick Harkaway' William Gibson, New York Times best-selling author of Agency Cal Sounder is a detective working for the police on certain very sensitive cases. So when he's called in to investigate a homicide at a local apartment, he is surprised at first to see that the victim appears to be a rather typical techie. But on closer inspection, he finds the victim is over seven feet tall. And even though he doesn't look a day over thirty, he is actually ninety years old. Clearly, he is a Titan - one of this dystopian, near-future society's genetically-altered elites. There are only a few thousand Titans worldwide, all thanks to Stefan Tonfamecasca's discovery of the controversial T7 genetic therapy, which elevated his family to near godlike status. A dead Titan is big news . . . a murdered Titan is unimaginable. But Titans are Cal's specialty. In fact, his ex-girlfriend, Athena, is a Titan. And not just any Titan - she's Stefan's daughter, heir to the Tonfamecasca empire. As Cal digs deeper into the murder investigation, he begins to unravel the complicated threads of what should have been a straightforward case, and it soon becomes clear he's on the trail of a crime whose roots run deep into the dark heart of the world. Titanium Noir is a tightly woven, intricate tale of murder, betrayal, and vengeance. 'I picked up Titanium Noir and then it returned the favor, sending me reeling with thrilling velocity through Nick Harkaway's latest world of dark wonders until it set me down at the last fine Harkaway sentence with all the lightness, strength, and brilliance of its hard bright titular element' Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize winning author 'Titanium Noir blends the best of the science fiction and crime genres to create something vibrant and new. Captivating from start to finish' the Big Issue

Jake Arnott

Cecelia Ahern

Jenny Colgan

Trudi Canavan

A. L. Kennedy

Time Trips is a unique and beautifully illustrated collection of Doctor Who adventures from bestselling and award-winning writers including Joanne Harris, Trudi Canavan, Nick Harkaway, A.L. Kennedy and more. Taking you from ancient Alexandria to nameless planets in the far future, these tales are at turns funny, frightening, moving and thought-provoking short stories that are bigger on the inside . Time Trips includes: The Anti-Hero (featuring the Second Doctor) by Stella Duffy Salt of the Earth (featuring the Third Doctor) by Trudi Canavan The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Time Traveller (featuring the Third Doctor) by Joanne Harris The Death Pit (featuring the Fourth Doctor) by A.L. Kennedy A Handful of Stardust (featuring the Sixth Doctor) by Jake Arnott The Bog Warrior (featuring the Tenth Doctor) by Cecelia Ahern Keeping Up with the Joneses (featuring the Tenth Doctor) by Nick Harkaway Into the Nowhere (featuring the Eleventh Doctor) by Jenny T. Colgan.

Time Trips

Claire North

President Adam Roberts

"Irregularity is incredible, 'a webwork of reference, inspiration, inference and opposition' which investigates the place of the imagination in an era on the very edge of enlightenment" - Tor.com "There is just so much to appreciate and enjoy.... fourteen individual, impeccably formed, visions of literary minds. I'm pleased to confirm that each and every one them, and the tales they have to tell, are most definitely worthy of your time." - The Eloquent Page "Clever, subversive and just so much fun" - A Fantastical Librarian "One of the best short story anthologies I've ever read, executed with an incredible amount of cleverness. Huge achievement." - Under the Radar --- During the Age of Reason, the world's greatest minds named, measured and catalogued the world around them. They brought order and discipline to the universe. Except where they didn't. Irregularity collects fourteen original stories from extraordinary literary voices, each featuring someone - or something - that refused to obey the dictates of reason: Darwin's other voyage, the secret names of spiders, the assassination of Isaac Newton and an utterly impossible book. --- Contents include: "Fairchild's Folly" by Tiffani Angus "A Game Proposition" by Rose Biggin "A Woman Out of Time" by Kim Curran "The Heart of Aris Kindt" by Richard de Nooy "Footprint" by Archie Black "An Experiment in the Formulae of Thought" by Simon Guerrier "Irregularity" by Nick Harkaway "Circulation" by Roger Luckhurst "The Voyage of the Basset" by Claire North "The Assassination of Isaac Newton by the Coward Robert Boyle" by Adam Roberts "Animalia Paradoxa" by Henrietta Rose-Innes "The Last Escapement" by James Smythe "The Darkness" by M. Suddain "The Spiders of Stockholm" by E. J. Swift Fom John Harrison to Ada Lovelace, Isaac Newton to Emilie du Chatelet, these stories showcase the Age of Reason in a very different light. Irregularity also contains an afterword by Sophie Waring and Richard Dunn, Head of Science and Technology at Royal Museums Greenwich. Irregularity is illustrated by Gary Northfield, inspired by paintings provided by the National Maritime Museum. The cover shows "Resolution," artwork by Howard Hardiman. Irregularity is published to coincide with the Ships, Clocks and Stars exhibition at the Royal Maritime Museum, part of Longitude Season - a celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Longitude Act.

Irregularity

Nicholas Cornwell

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective investigating the murder of a Titan, one of society’s most powerful, medically-enhanced elites “Cross-genre brilliance from the superbly talented Nick Harkaway.” —William Gibson, New York Times best-selling author of Agency Cal Sounder is a detective working for the police on certain very sensitive cases. So when he’s called in to investigate a homicide at a local apartment, he’s surprised by the routineness of it all. But when he arrives on scene, Cal soon learns that the victim—Roddy Tebbit, an otherwise milquetoast techie—is well over seven feet tall. And although he doesn’t look a day over thirty, he is ninety-one years old. Tebbit is a Titan—one of this dystopian, near-future society’s genetically altered elites. And this case is definitely Cal’s thing. There are only a few thousand Titans worldwide, thanks to Stefan Tonfamecasca’s discovery of the controversial T7 genetic therapy, which elevated his family to godlike status. T7 turns average humans into near-immortal distortions of themselves—with immense physical proportions to match their ostentatious, unreachable lifestyles. A dead Titan is big news . . . a murdered Titan is unimaginable. But these modified magnates are Cal’s specialty. In fact, his own ex-girlfriend, Athena, is a Titan. And not just any—she is Stefan’s daughter, heir to the massive Tonfamecasca empire. As the murder investigation intensifies, Cal begins to unravel the complicated threads of what should have been a straightforward case, and it becomes clear he’s on the trail of a crime whose roots run deep into the dark heart of the world.

A novel

Grande-Bretagne. Futur proche. La monarchie constitutionnelle parlementaire qu'on croyait éternelle a laissé place au Système, un mode de démocratie directe où le citoyen est fortement incité à participer et voter. La population est surveillée en permanence par le Témoin : la somme de toutes les caméras de surveillance et de tout le suivi numérique que permettent les objets connectés. Au cours d'un interrogatoire par lecture mentale, la dissidente Diana Hunter décède. Mielikki Neith, une inspectrice du Témoin, fidèle au Système, est chargée de l'enquête. Alors qu'elle devrait être en mesure d'explorer la psyché de Hunter, Mielikki se retrouve confrontée à trois mémoires différentes : celle d'un financier grec attaqué par un requin, celle d'une alchimiste et celle d'un vieux peintre éthiopien. Pour Neith, dont les certitudes commencent à s'effriter, un incroyable voyage au coeur de la pensée humaine commence. Aussi déroutant que dangereux. Nick Harkaway est l'auteur de quatre romans, dont Gonzo Lubitsch ou l'incroyable odyssée (Robert Laffont, 2010).

Gnomon - tome 2

A Wall Street Journal and Booklist Best Mystery of 2012 From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World, blistering gangster noir meets howling absurdist comedy as the forces of good square off against the forces of evil, and only an unassuming clockwork repairman and an octogenarian former superspy can save the world from total destruction. Joe Spork spends his days fixing antique clocks. The son of infamous London criminal Mathew “Tommy Gun” Spork, he has turned his back on his family’s mobster history and aims to live a quiet life. That orderly existence is suddenly upended when Joe activates a particularly unusual clockwork mechanism. His client, Edie Banister, is more than the kindly old lady she appears to be—she’s a retired international secret agent. And the device? It’s a 1950s doomsday machine. Having triggered it, Joe now faces the wrath of both the British government and a diabolical South Asian dictator who is also Edie’s old arch-nemesis. On the upside, Joe’s got a girl: a bold receptionist named Polly whose smarts, savvy and sex appeal may be just what he needs. With Joe’s once-quiet world suddenly overrun by mad monks, psychopathic serial killers, scientific geniuses and threats to the future of conscious life in the universe, he realizes that the only way to survive is to muster the courage to fight, help Edie complete a mission she abandoned years ago and pick up his father’s old gun . . .

How to Survive in the Digital Age

El Tubo de Jorgmund es la columna vertebral del mundo y está en llamas. Gonzo Lubitsch, héroe de profesión y solucionador de problemas, es contratado para apagarlo. Pero hay más en el incendio y en el propio Tubo de lo que parece a primera vista. El encargo llevará a Gonzo y a su mejor amigo, el narrador, de vuelta a sus propios orígenes y hasta el oscuro corazón de la Compañía de Jorgmund. El mundo que vimos desaparecer es una aventura vertiginosa, hilarante y épica, y la crónica de un amor y su pérdida. Una odisea repleta de ninjas, piratas y conspiraciones políticas; con heroísmos inesperados en tierras extrañas y peligrosas y con una amistad puesta a prueba al límite. Pero también es la historia de un mundo no demasiado distinto al nuestro y desesperadamente necesitado de héroes, por improbables que estos sean.

El mundo que vimos desaparecer

Grande-Bretagne. Futur proche. La monarchie constitutionnelle parlementaire qu’on croyait éternelle a laissé place au Système, un mode de démocratie directe où le citoyen est fortement incité à participer et voter. La population est surveillée en permanence par le Témoin : la somme de toutes les caméras de surveillance et de tout le suivi numérique que permettent les objets connectés. Au cours d’un interrogatoire par lecture mentale, la dissidente Diana Hunter décède. Mielikki Neith, une inspectrice du Témoin, fidèle au Système, est chargée de l’enquête. Alors qu’elle devrait être en mesure d’explorer la psyché de Hunter, Mielikki se retrouve confrontée à trois mémoires différentes : celle d’un financier grec attaqué par un requin, celle d’une alchimiste et celle d’un vieux peintre éthiopien. Pour Neith, dont les certitudes commencent à s’effriter, un incroyable voyage au cœur de la pensée humaine commence. Aussi déroutant que dangereux. Nick Harkaway est l’auteur de quatre romans, dont Gonzo Lubitsch ou l’incroyable odyssée (Robert Laffont, 2010).

Gnomon - tome 1

Joanne Harris

Stella Duffy

A.L. Kennedy

Time Trips is a unique and beautifully illustrated collection of Doctor Who adventures from bestselling and award-winning writers including Joanne Harris, Trudi Canavan, Nick Harkaway, A.L. Kennedy and more. Taking you from ancient Alexandria to nameless planets in the far future, these tales are at turns funny, frightening, moving and thought-provoking – short stories that are bigger on the inside. Time Trips includes: The Anti-Hero (featuring the Second Doctor) by Stella Duffy Salt of the Earth (featuring the Third Doctor) by Trudi Canavan The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Time Traveller (featuring the Third Doctor) by Joanne Harris The Death Pit (featuring the Fourth Doctor) by A.L. Kennedy A Handful of Stardust (featuring the Sixth Doctor) by Jake Arnott The Bog Warrior (featuring the Tenth Doctor) by Cecelia Ahern Keeping Up with the Joneses (featuring the Tenth Doctor) by Nick Harkaway Into the Nowhere (featuring the Eleventh Doctor) by Jenny T. Colgan

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