![]() ![]() ![]() In this world, Diana Hunter, “a writer of obscurantist magical realist novels” read in fragmentary samizdat editions, harbored antinomian thoughts-and, given the recent news that the brain remains conscious for at least a short time after death, it makes sense that Neith should try to get inside her brain to ferret out subversion. “By extension,” writes the genre-hopping British novelist Harkaway ( Tigerman, 2014, etc.), “it means something perpendicular to everything else, such as the upright part of a sundial.” It is different from its surroundings, and so is everything that police investigator Mielikki Neith (as in ’neath, where hidden things are to be found) learns about the case just assigned to her: it involves a dissident, now deceased, in a near-future society where citizens patrol each other by means of social media, totalitarianism with a thin veneer of friendly hyperdemocracy, all committee work and political correctness. In surveying, a gnomon is a set square used to mark right angles on a chart. Dick–tinged sci-fi, mystery, politics, and literary fiction in a most satisfying brew. ![]() ![]() Beguiling, multilayered, sprawling novel that blends elements of Philip K. ![]()
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