

It begins (and is centered) in a near-future London which seems to have discovered for itself a near-perfect form of distributed democracy called The System - a place where public service is done like never-ending jury duty by all citizens, and all things are voted on all the time by everyone.

Dick, Arthur Conan Doyle and William Gibson. Gnomon is a big, ambitious book that sometimes trips over its own bigness, but reads like some kind of game of literary telephone played by Philip K. It's going to be about everything - from ancient Egypt to the distant future. It's going to be about everything.Įverything? You're still sticking with that? Totally! So now what's it going to be about? Gnomon - that's really gonna confuse people. Okay, Nick, so we have that crazy title, right?Ībsolutely, Nick.
