Description: "Very funny and hugely entertaining. . . . And brilliant. Read it."-- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Bewilders, amazes, entertains. . . . a Catch-22 for the 21st century. . . . a work of extraordinary imagination and charisma. . . genius"- -The New York Observer "The Gone-Away World, is a gripping, satirical, postapocalyptic war epic populated with mimes, ninjas, bureaucrats, chimera, and gun-toting nerds."-- New York Magazine "The Gone-Away World, an epic, stupendous outburst of a book, is more friction than science, more dark than fantasy, and more than anyone would''ve expected had they known the author''s true identity. It''s about the end of the world, the perils of thinking too hard (about anything), and friendship, family, and love. In that sense, it''s a lot like War and Peace - huge, unexpected, and written by some guy you probably should have read already and can''t wait to hear more from - with better ordnance and nearly the same mental and moral heft. . . . Harkaway''s absurdist humanism reads like a surrealist smashup of Pynchon and Pratchett, Vonnegut and Heller, but his voice is his own, thick with creamed idealism, grim jaw-set hope, and a palpable tang of the here and now, the war and the peace. . . . The Gone-Away World is a flat-out ferociously good novel, and Harkaway has heralded his own coming with one hell of a bang."-- Austin Chronicle "Leaves the reader gasping for both adjectives and description. It''s a powerful and accomplished first novel that weaves elements of romance, mystery, SF/F and -- yes -- thriller together in a way that leaves no doubt that the master storyteller gene really is something that can be passed along." --January Magazine "Harkaway delivers plenty of action and surprises. . . . With an absurdist streak reminiscent of Vonnegut, Pynchon or Heller. . . . Likely to be this season''s major conversation-starter."-- San Francisco Chronicle "Vivid and exciting. Harkaway manages to meld a vision of war more germane to today''s world, and take it to its most horrifying, apocalyptic conclusion."-- Charleston City Paper Advance praise: "A brilliant, stunning novel, The Gone-Away World is smart and funny and capacious of heart; the writing is fluid, the storytelling utterly fearless. It''s the best book I''ve read in quite some time." -Scott Smith, author of The Ruins "Nick Harkaway is hot stuff. You'll need asbestos gloves for this one." -Len Deighton, author of The IPCRESS File " The Gone-Away World grows richer, smarter, and more entertaining with every page. In the weeks after I finished reading it, my mind kept roaming free of other books and dreaming about this one instead." -Kevin Brockmeier, author of The View from the Seventh Layer "A big new book by a big new writer. Harkaway describes the Gone-Away World in words that whiz and ping like bullets ricocheting off the walls of the reader's mind. He's the real thing." -Russell Hoban, author of Riddley Walker Praise from the UK: "[A] magnificent, sprawling, epic workCould easily become a modern classic. Its scope and ambition are extraordinary, its execution is often breathtaking, and its style is by turns hilarious, outrageous, devastating, hip and profound Its bleakly humorous futuristic vision is not dissimilar to that of Kurt Vonnegut, while its visceral, scattershot energy brings to mind landmark American books like The World According to Garp and Catch-22 The ghosts of Douglas Adams and P G Wodehouse haunt some of the finest passages here There are profound meditations on war, commercialism and the nature of humanity, and there are also hugely entertaining pass

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