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Gnomon
by Nick Harkaway
It's a near future Britain where the system takes care of you, but that means you are never not under surveillance. It is a kindness to bring in people with bad inclinations and give them a brain cleaning, so to speak.
And then Diana Hunter submits to an interrogation and she dies. Mielikki Neith is a Witness - an investigator who must upload Hunter's brain reading into her own head to find out what happened.
Then all hell breaks loose. Layers of story, misdirection, a Greek math whiz with a shark, an artist who escapes prison, a game developer who may have created the system, a submarine, and an alchemist who descends into Hades to recover her dead son. Plus an assassin and an eternal entity who hops into bodies.
You have to be prepared to go on the adventure and to engage with the text on this one. There's always some interesting echoes with Harkaway - if you need some comparisons, it'll be Neal Stephenson, Don DeLillo, and Baudrillard.
And then Diana Hunter submits to an interrogation and she dies. Mielikki Neith is a Witness - an investigator who must upload Hunter's brain reading into her own head to find out what happened.
Then all hell breaks loose. Layers of story, misdirection, a Greek math whiz with a shark, an artist who escapes prison, a game developer who may have created the system, a submarine, and an alchemist who descends into Hades to recover her dead son. Plus an assassin and an eternal entity who hops into bodies.
You have to be prepared to go on the adventure and to engage with the text on this one. There's always some interesting echoes with Harkaway - if you need some comparisons, it'll be Neal Stephenson, Don DeLillo, and Baudrillard.