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Titanium Noir
Nick Harkaway (Corsair/Hachette)
WHAT a strange, placeless place Nick Harkaway has created in his Titanium Noir, a mix of speculative sci-fi and noir. The shoreline city of Chersenesos juts into an alpine lake – possibly an oblique nod to a future climate that has driven humanity far up the mountains.
But in this future, discussions of climate are curiously absent. There are bigger problems. Literally. That alpine lake is called Othrys, which classics nerds will spot …
