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I'll admit up front that Harkaway's debut, The Gone-Away World, is one of my favourite books and his subsequent novels aren't too shabby either, but his fourth is quite remarkable. It is set partially in a near-future Britain run by the System, a data network that both organises the citizenry into an active direct democracy and keeps their lives efficient and safe. Data privacy is a thing of the past; you can query someone's identity and life by direct access to the System and Harkaway skillfull
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So good. So hard to describe. This is a near future utopia that turns into a murder mystery enfolded in a video game. This is science fiction at its best. The near future is a genius expansion of our current wisdom of social media, high surveillance life into a world where everything is under constant monitoring, but it's for the good of the world. Decisions are made by direct voting in a poll-the-audience sort of way.
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Nov 28, 2017
Poly
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