Titanium Noir
Book description
A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective investigating the murder of a Titan, one of society’s most powerful, medically-enhanced elites. • “Cross-genre brilliance from the superbly talented Nick Harkaway.” —William Gibson, New York Times best-selling author of Agency
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2 authors picked Titanium Noir as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The best sci-fi has a lived-in feel – think of the polluted, grimy futurism of Blade Runner or Alien.
This is something that it has in common with noir fiction. Compare, say, the cyberpunk of William Gibson with the gritty, hard-boiled detective fiction of Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett – take out the sci-fi elements, and they could be writing about the same world.
In Titanium Noir, Nick Harkaway imagines just that. It is a razor-sharp pastiche, combining the best tropes of the gum-shoe genre – the femme fatale, the world-weary PI, corrupt cops, and menacing crime bosses –…
Titanium Noir is a cyberpunk noir masterpiece in the tradition of Altered Carbon – in a world where the rich are essentially immortal, private detective Cal Sounder is an ordinary man who is asked to do the extraordinary. But the truth, as always, is much more complicated than anyone can imagine.
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