Inventive sci-fi thriller that answers the big questions

Julian Gough makes a futuristic smart world brilliantly believable. Juliana Socher

Connect

By Julian Gough

Picador, €17.95

The fourth novel from Nenagh-born, Berlin-based Julian Gough is a mind-warping futuristic thriller wrapped in a smorgasbord of ideas, or is it a novel about identity, love and humanity masquerading as a high-octane techno thriller? When the ride is this exciting, who really cares enough to stop and smell the neurons?

Connect is set in Nevada in the near-future, where scientist Naomi and her tech-genius but ...