Steven Hall is the author of The Raw Shark Texts and was
lead writer on the bestselling video game Battlefield 1, for which
he received a Writer's Guild nomination. His 2007 debut novel, The
Raw Shark Texts, won the Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted
for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. It was an international bestseller
and has been translated into over thirty languages. In 2013, Hall
was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.
Maxwell's Demon is his second novel.
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Thirteen years after The Raw Shark Texts, Steven Hall comes back
with another dazzlingly smart postmodern treat. Maxwell's Demon is
both steeped in high European theory - think Calvino and Eco - and
enormously enjoyable
* * Observer * *
Ingeniously plotted and compulsively well-paced, a blend of
detective story and science fiction with an epistemology course
thrown in
* * Sunday Times * *
A postmodern mystery . . . Ingenious fun . . . Showily postmodern,
full of odd typographical elements, altered realities and
intertextual jokes . . . Maxwell's Demon is consistently fun and
often impressive
* * Guardian, Book of the Day * *
An engaging, pacy mystery as well as an exploration of reality,
entropy and the language of a modern creative landscape . . . The
book is full of conceptual and typographic trickery and it's soaked
in an appreciation of the written word
* * Independent, Books of the Month * *
A Pynchonesque, footnote-and theory-heavy mystery novel that's as
postmodern as they come . . . A smart, teasing and (above all)
lovable mystery tale . . . Superb
* * Telegraph * *
Dazzlingly clever, wickedly playful, devastatingly poignant
*M.R. CAREY*
Labyrinthine, mind-twisting and deliciously diabolical, yet also
unexpectedly warm-hearted. Maxwell's Demon is fantastic
*CHRIS BROOKMYRE*
As melancholy as it is captivating. Whether pertaining to
thermodynamics or company kept around a manger or autumn leaves
born of text and set free, Maxwell's Demon is hard to put down.
Even when you're done
*MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI*
A cracking detective story that seems to be investigating its own
existence
*JEFF NOON*
Moves at an exhilarating lick . . . The genius of the book is that
despite it seeming like an elegant orrery, all these wheels within
wheels are a carapace, a psychic armour against a grief (and it's
not the grief you were expecting). Beneath this truly beautiful
astrolabe is a beating human heart
* * Scotsman * *
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