2015 Reading Challenge, Book 15: The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway

This is a very interesting book of post-apocalyptic fiction in the Wodehousian tradition of a salty lark told in florid and often exhaustively descriptive terms. I described it on twitter as fight club on LSD meets the Expendables and sort of explodes in slow motion. It’s a little more complicated than that, after all it is literary speculative fiction, but that’s a good description of the core story.

I found it a little meandering. Lots of asides about characters, history and background, som...