Nick Harkaway
Nick Harkaway
Nick Harkawayis a novelist and commentator. He is the author of the novels The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker and Tigerman; and a non-fiction study of the digital world, The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
mind teeth
Never mind, never mind, let's get to the part where we smite the unrighteous. I've brought my most alarming teeth!
pie ephemeral hot
A cherry pie is . . . ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from too hot to edible to cold to stale to mouldy, and finally to a post-pie state where only history can tell you that it was once considered food. The pie is a parable of human life.
children bored stripes
Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.
silly flower ninja
Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate.
scary stories path
No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are going to leave the path, you better have your wits about you and know better than to trust the first scary old lady who talks to you in public.
tupperware
That's what you get for ignoring the beauty of Tupperware.
home clothes people
Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything.
heaven hell mime
I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.
media cities worry
We should be worrying about if you live in the city you're more likely to have anxiety or mood disorders and to be schizophrenic. More than the problems people have from social media.
photography lying cat
Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.
block writing skills
ARGH! There's no such thing [as writer's block]. Seriously: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. You know what there is? There's a bunch of problems, creative and otherwise, that can stop you writing. They are not block. They are important skills.
ends 80s courses
In a lot of places, of course, the '80s had never really come to an end.
space people maps
I have wrangles with Facebook, entered fictitious trips because I can't get the map to get off my page, don't want people to know where I live. It is possible to carve out a space that's your own.
writing law errors
Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.