About the Author

Max Barry is the author of four previous novels, including New York Times Notable Book Jennifer Government and Syrup, soon to be a major film. He is also the creator of the internet mini-phenomenon NationStates, an online political simulation game. He lives in Melbourne, Australia, with his wife and two daughters. He is a cat person.

Visit Max Barry's website at maxbarry.com, find him at facebook.com/maxbarry or follow him on twitter.com/maxbarry.

Reviews

Praise for Providence
*:*

Providence is such a blast you almost overlook how clever it is. Like Starship Troopers and 2001: A Sapce Odyssey, it's about the limit of human intelligence, the nature of humanity and the price we're prepared to pay for the survival of the species
*Daily Mail*

Providence is a light-hearted thriller with a superbly dark, existential sting in its tail
*The Times*

A quirky, character-driven commentary on the mechanisation of conflict and the sheer perversity of human nature
*Financial Times*

Compelling and innovative... Barry takes a story that has been done countless times before and makes it seem original
*Daily Mail*

[A] terrific sci-fi thriller
*Publishers Weekly*

PROVIDENCE is an absolute treat. Pulls the trick of being both irrepressibly old-school sci-fi and creepily relevant to the data-driven future
*Austin Grossman, author of Soon I Will Be Invincible*

An astonishing novel! PROVIDENCE is Philip K. Dick and William Gibson fueled by pure adrenaline (with a bit of Spielberg and Ridley Scott thrown in). The brilliant, unstoppable imagination of Max Barry glows on every page of this action-filled, yet emotionally resonant, tale. It will keep you riveted from first page till last. I read in one sitting and I guarantee you'll do the same
*Jeffery Deaver, author of The Never Game*

Action-packed and unsettling, PROVIDENCE is a sleekly-written parable about the absurdity of war--and the deeply human urge to destroy everything we don't understand, whether it comes from a distant planet or right here on Earth
*Annalee Newitz, author of Autonomous and The Future of Another Timeline*

I could not put PROVIDENCE down until I'd finished it in one thrilling sitting. This is science fiction at its best-a ship so believably alive and characters so determined, flawed, and compelling that you'll forget you're not also part of the crew
*Peng Shepherd, author of The Book of M*

PROVIDENCE'S greatest strength - apart from being terrifically entertaining - is its characters. (...) It's Barry's empathy for his characters, his willingness to dig deep into their foibles, that distinguishes PROVIDENCE from most of the golden-age science fiction that inspired it.
*Locus*

The meat of this is in its human interactions
*SciFi Bulletin*

Max Barry's excellent novel Providence
*New Scientist*

Providence is an extremely smart take on an entirely different genre ... page-turning anticipation which pays off beautifully in the final third
*SFX*

Providence is a meditation ... on the difference between programmed intelligence and the human version. Barry tells a fun and funny story that finds the perfect moments to break your heart in the best ways
*Locus*

Like Starship Troopers with added brain, this is such a blast you can overlook just how clever and thought-provoking it is
*Daily Mail*