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Titanium Noir
Nick Harkaway (Corsair/Hachette)
WHAT an odd, placeless place Nick Harkaway has created in his Titanium Noir, a mixture of speculative sci-fi and noir. The shoreline metropolis of Chersenesos juts into an alpine lake – presumably an indirect nod to a future local weather that has pushed humanity far up the mountains.
However on this future, discussions of local weather are curiously absent. There are larger issues. Actually. That alpine lake known as Othrys, which classics nerds will spot …