Maxwell's Demon
Feb 2021 · Canongate Books
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‘Ingeniously plotted and compulsively well-paced’ Sunday Times
‘A cracking detective story that seems to be investigating its own existence’ Jeff Noon
'Are you there, Tom?'
I stood in the doorway, staring at the phone.
My father had been dead for almost seven years.
When Thomas Quinn receives a seemingly impossible voice message, he can’t help but wonder if Andrew Black – a legendary, reclusive mystery writer and his father’s protégé – is somehow involved.
Thomas knows that Black can’t be trusted, that he should be avoided at all costs. But as the search for answers spirals into an examination of the nature of time, entropy, the true forms of angels, fictional stalkers and the secrets of the nativity set . . . Thomas realises that he might not have a choice.
‘A cracking detective story that seems to be investigating its own existence’ Jeff Noon
'Are you there, Tom?'
I stood in the doorway, staring at the phone.
My father had been dead for almost seven years.
When Thomas Quinn receives a seemingly impossible voice message, he can’t help but wonder if Andrew Black – a legendary, reclusive mystery writer and his father’s protégé – is somehow involved.
Thomas knows that Black can’t be trusted, that he should be avoided at all costs. But as the search for answers spirals into an examination of the nature of time, entropy, the true forms of angels, fictional stalkers and the secrets of the nativity set . . . Thomas realises that he might not have a choice.
‘Ingeniously plotted and compulsively well-paced’ Sunday Times
‘A cracking detective story that seems to be investigating its own existence’ Jeff Noon
'Are you there, Tom?'
I stood in the doorway, staring at the phone.
My father had been dead for almost seven years.
When Thomas Quinn receives a...
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Caroline Price
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February 9, 2021
Maxwell's Demon is a very unusual novel, it's hard to slot it into a specific genre but it's beautifully written and pressed all the right buttons for me. Thomas Quinn is struggling as a writer, his only published work some years ago was panned by his mentor, Andrew Black who had written one fantastically successful (1,000,000 plus copies sold) and then disappeared. Black had also usurped Thomas' place in his father's life. Things become decidedly Kafkaesque as the novel progresses. This is only Stephen Hall's second novel and it deserves to be a huge success. Very highly recommended.
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 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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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...
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