Nick Harkaway is the author of Gnomon, as well as The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker (for which he won the Oxfam Emerging Writers Prize and the Kitschies’ coveted Red Tentacle) and Tigerman. He has been described variously as ‘J. G. Ballard’s geeky younger brother’, ‘William Makepeace Thackerary on acid’ and ‘a British mimetic speculative godgame novelist’. The Blind Giant, his only full length non-fiction work, examines the interaction of technology and humanity and how best to live in a world where gadgets have become fundamental.
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
The Gone-Away World (2008) is a post-apocalyptic comedy/tragedy about our world before and after the Gone-Away Bombs have wiped up out much of humanity and the world we know. It is about Gonzo Lubitsch and his nameless best friend, who work for a special crew that is assigned to put of a fire along the Jorgmond pipeline, which produced the special material “Fox” that can eliminate the Stuff, the matter that is left over after gone-away bombs have removed the information from matter so that it no longer can form coherent form and structure.
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Wow, sounds terrific. Adding it to my list.
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