![]() ![]() ![]() Yes, our lives are controlled by the System, the outgrowth of a computer game expanded to the real world, and, yes, all our actions, emotions, and biological processes are monitored by an electronic police force called the Witness, which can detect when we are soon to experience a health crisis or commit a crime as well as how we feel about various public issues. The world of near-future Britain has become a total surveillance state, but this Big Brother isn’t evil, or so we want to believe. The notions of apocalypse and postapocalypse have been key ingredients in all of Harkaway’s previous novels, but here he takes them in an altogether new direction, both thematically and narratively. With every new novel, Harkaway manages to further explode the idea of boundaries as useful tools to contain our understanding of character, genre, and story. ![]()
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