“Being a parent is weird. It changes people in subtle and unsubtle ways. In my case, it awoke a kind of manic sentinel in my brain. Anything in the house that might be a threat to the kids or to my wife gets terminated - food, sharp edges, poor wiring.”

British novelist and commentator

Nick Harkaway, born Nicholas Cornwell, is a British novelist and commentator. He is known for writing under the name Nick Harkaway, and has 132 quotes on the site. Under that name, he wrote the novels The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker, Tigerman, Gnomon, Titanium Noir, and Karla's Choice, as well as the non-fiction study The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World. He also wrote two novels under the pseudonym Aidan Truhen.