Nick Harkaway
Author of The Gone-Away World
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Works by Nick Harkaway
Associated Works
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Nearly Definitive Edition (2014) — some editions — 67 copies
Twelve Tomorrows: Visionary stories of the near future inspired by today's technologies (all new 2016 edition) (2015) — Contributor — 28 copies
Sunspot Jungle: Volume Two: The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction (2) (2018) — Contributor — 20 copies
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- Legal name
- Cornwell, Nicholas
- Other names
- Harkaway, Nick (pseudonym)
Truhen, Aidan (pseudonym) - Birthdate
- 1972
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Cornwall, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Cornwall, England, UK
London, England, UK - Education
- University of Cambridge (Clare College)
University College School, London, England, UK - Occupations
- novelist
- Relationships
- Le Carré, John (father)
- Awards and honors
- Guest of Honour, Phoenix Convention 7 (2010)
- Agent
- Patrick Walsh
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Statistics
- Works
- 15
- Also by
- 7
- Members
- 5,276
- Popularity
- #4,722
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 296
- ISBNs
- 103
- Languages
- 6
- Favorited
- 24
That cornerstone speculation is the "Titanium 7" medical treatment that rejuvenates and enlarges patients--at prohibitive financial cost, so that it is a perquisite and stigma of the "speciation rich" (16). Protagonist Cal Sounder has special expertise in crime connected with the T7 elite, and the story begins with the discovery of a murder where the victim is a Titan. It is irresistible to read the story as a politico-economic fable, and Harkaway even has a character declaim, "God has been a socialist since 1848 when Karl Marx explained things to him" (173).
However, when I finished the book, I realized that if it were any kind of allegory, it had instead to do with Titans as ancestors of the gods, and the creative powers of writers.
The plot is lively, with a few twists that are surprising and some likely ones that don't happen, despite an ending that is borderline-inevitable. The six longish chapters and short seventh are each sufficiently absorbing to read in a single sitting, and they contain many internal breaks to permit pauses as needed. I read the book in under a week without being especially dedicated to it. In just that brief window, I feel like the sarcastic hard-boiled voice of Cal Sounder has become a friend, and I'm a little sad to part from him.… (more)