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★★★★☆ 3.86 • Goodreads

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Craved Chasm City's plague-rot noir and memory-warped revenge? Gnomon by Nick Harkaway fractures surveillance-state intrigue across nested timelines that reward your obsessive thread-mapping.

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Why It's Your Next Read

  • Nested narratives demand your full attention
  • Surveillance dystopia w/ philosophical teeth & fury
  • Anti-heroes navigate power—no clean heroes here
  • AI & consciousness probed without handholding

If you loved Chasm City's plague-rot noir and memory-warped revenge plots, Gnomon doubles down on layered intrigue: a surveillance state, nested identities bleeding across timelines, and conspiracies that reward the reader who maps every thread. Harkaway serves the same intellectual feast—consciousness, AI, and identity fragmentation rendered with hard-edged rigor—while stripping away any pretense of heroism in favor of morally ambiguous operators navigating power's brittle scaffolding.

No cheap resolutions, no hand-holding—just the existential dread you crave.

This is cyberpunk philosophy weaponized as thriller, where societal rot hides beneath algorithmic perfection and every revelation fractures your grip on what's real. No cheap resolutions, no hand-holding—just the existential dread you crave.

If Chasm City taught you to distrust memory, Gnomon will make you question whether you ever had a self to lose.

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What Readers Are Saying

"Gnomon is challenging, wonderful, descriptively fascinating, unrelentingly clever and in the end worth every moment of your time. Highly Recommended." Liz Barnsley, Goodreads
"This is one of those books that makes you feel that for years you've been killing time... It stretches the sense of what books can do. It gets better the more you think about it, the more you give to it." Max, Goodreads
"I loved it from the first few chapters. I found myself rereading paragraphs because I just wanted to spend time appreciating the writing." Rachel (TheShadesofOrange), Goodreads

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