Awards

• Short-listed for RSL Encore Award 2022 (UK)

Overview

This autumn, life is catching up with struggling novelist Thomas Quinn. Five years ago, his mentor, Andrew Black, wrote a mystery novel that sold a million copies—and then he disappeared. Could it be that Quinn is being stalked by the hero of Black’s book? His wife, Imogen, usually has the answers, but she’s working on the other side of the world and talking to her on webcam just isn’t the same. Quinn finds himself in a world that might well be coming apart at the seams. If he could find Black, he might be able to discover the truth.

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'A fast, sharp-toothed work of genius. This is Moby Dick meets Jorge Luis Borges by way of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. An instant classic.' * Matt Haig on The Raw Shark Texts * 'A cult in the making.' * Time Out on The Raw Shark Texts * 'Clever, exciting, funny and moving.' * Sunday Times on The Raw Shark Texts * 'If Paul Auster and Haruki Murakami collaborated on Moby Dick crossed with The Wizard of Oz, they might produce something like Hall's deliriously ambitious debut, which mixes profound themes with playful plot twists...A narrative feat of hallucinatory imagination.' * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on The Raw Shark Texts *

'A fast, sharp-toothed work of genius. This is Moby Dick meets Jorge Luis Borges by way of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. An instant classic.' * Matt Haig on The Raw Shark Texts * 'A cult in the making.' * Time Out on The Raw Shark Texts * 'If Paul Auster and Haruki Murakami collaborated on Moby Dick crossed with The Wizard of Oz, they might produce something like Hall's deliriously ambitious debut, which mixes profound themes with playful plot twists...A narrative feat of hallucinatory imagination.' * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on The Raw Shark Texts * 'Clever, exciting, funny and moving.' * Sunday Times on The Raw Shark Texts * '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 * 'Labyrinthine, mind-twisting and deliciously diabolical, yet also unexpectedly warm-hearted. Maxwell's Demon is fantastic.' * Christopher Brookmyre * 'I enjoyed Maxwell's Demon a great deal. Anyone who enjoyed The Raw Shark Texts will be delighted.' * Toby Litt *

'I enjoyed Maxwell's Demon a great deal. Anyone who enjoyed The Raw Shark Texts will be delighted.' * Toby Litt * 'Labyrinthine, mind-twisting and deliciously diabolical, yet also unexpectedly warm-hearted. Maxwell's Demon is fantastic.' * Christopher Brookmyre * '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 * 'Dazzlingly clever, wickedly playful, devastatingly poignant.' * M. R. Carey * 'A wonderfully imaginative, splendidly baroque novel that is a combination of the baffling, teasing and tantalising. 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 * '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 * '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.' * Stuart Kelly Scotsman * 'A smart, teasing and (above all) loveable mystery tale . . . Superb.' * Sunday Telegraph * '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 entropic and sprawling mystery . . . Mind-twisting . . . Introspective and philosophical, the novel explores the dangers that occur when fatalistic urges take over.' * New Statesman * '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 * 'It's Raymond Chandler meets Dan Brown meets Albert Einstein. Meets Christopher Nolan. Meets Jorge Luis Borges. It's a mind-expanding page-turning adventure-mystery that crackles with intelligence and intrigue; a book about books (sort of) that's been beautifully rendered in book form.' * Foyles * 'Anyone who has a taste for postmodern hijinks - fans of Thomas Pynchon or Mark Z. Danielewski - will be drawn to the menace and profusion, the same-like brilliance and black hilarity of Maxwell's Demon.' * Sydney Morning Herald *

Author Information

Steven Hall’s 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. Hall was also the lead writer on the bestselling video game Battlefield 1, which sold over 3 million copies in its first week of release. In 2013, Hall was named as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. Maxwell’s Demon is his long-anticipated second novel.

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