Maxwell's Demon

'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 *