About the Author

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 Writers Guild nomination. The Raw Shark Texts, his 2007 debut novel, won the Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. An international bestseller, it has been translated into over thirty languages. In 2013, Hall was named one of the Best of Young British Novelists by Granta. Maxwell's Demon is his highly anticipated second novel. @stevenha11 steven-hall.org

Reviews

Praise for The Raw Shark Texts--No Source

"Written in the first person and paced like a thriller, there's an intimacy and immediacy that quickly grips, and even the long digressions on theory -- a trademark of the form -- are enjoyable to read."--Spectator

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

Ingeniously plotted and compulsively well-paced, a blend of detective story and science fiction with an epistemology course thrown in.
--Sunday Times (London)

"A wonderfully imaginative, splendidly baroque novel that is a combination of the baffling, teasing, and tantalizing. Part fantasy, part mystery, it is altogether delightful and filled with surprises--in a word, exceptional. No, make that two words; the second is fantastic. A rare, sui generis treat."--Booklist (starred review)

"A Pynchonesque, footnote- and theory-heavy mystery novel that's as postmodern as they come, and--or but, depending on the reader--it's superb . . . The novel's abiding theme is the joy of reading--always a risky ground for authors to tread. After all, your own book has to be completely lovable--which, thankfully, Maxwell's Demon is."--Telegraph

"Anyone who enjoyed The Raw Shark Texts will be delighted."--Toby Litt, author of Patience

"Dazzlingly clever, wickedly playful, devastatingly poignant."--M.R. Carey, author of The Girl with All the Gifts

"Labyrinthine, mind-twisting and deliciously diabolical, yet also unexpectedly warm-hearted. Maxwell's Demon is fantastic."--Christopher Brookmyre, author of The Last Hack

"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

"With Maxwell's Demon, Steven Hall has created a kaleidoscopic, disconcerting God game in which reality itself is thrown into deep shape-shifting shade. In an era of 'alternative truths' -- when what we believe to be authentic is often just another spurious story; when chaos and order, fiction and entropy are quicksand underfoot -- this novel couldn't be more timely. Like David Mitchell, Mark Z. Danielewski, and the Christopher Nolan of Inception, Hall has created his own unique world in which readers take a journey as mercurial and unexpected as life itself. Maxwell's Demon is a radiant and unique achievement."--Bradford Morrow, author of The Forger's Daughter

A cracking detective story that seems to be investigating its own existence. Hall explores that rich border zone that lies between fiction and non-fiction, and does it with verve and a playful, adventurous spirit. A unique voice in exploratory fiction.--Jeff Noon, author of Creeping Jenny

"Utterly thrilling . . . leaves your heart pounding"--Marie Claire

"Clever, exciting, funny and moving"--Sunday Times (London)

"Exhilarating." --Entertainment Weekly

"Rousingly inventive."--Washington Post

"Sharp and clear...writing on the edge of the form." --Los Angeles Times

"A psychological thriller with shades of Memento and The Matrix and the fiction of Mark Danielewski; page-turning, playful and chilling by turns"--The Guardian

"Dizzyingly good . . . clever, fun, gripping and shot through with melancholy"--Scotland on Sunday

"Fast, sexy, intriguing, intelligent - The Raw Shark Texts is all these and more: a cult waiting to happen, a blockbuster begging to be made. Steven Hall is a truly fantastic storyteller. Investigate, now!"--Toby Litt

"Genuinely isn't like anything you've ever read before" --Independent

"Inventive, funny and extremely smart"--Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife

"Unforgettable fiction." --Playboy

"Very entertaining. The bastard love-child of The Matrix, Jaws and The Da Vinci Code"--Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time