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. The Raw Shark Texts, his debut novel, 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. His long-anticipated second novel Maxwell's Demon is forthcoming from Canongate in 2021.

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A fast, sharp-toothed work of genius. An instant classic--MATT HAIG

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

A horror-dystopic-philosophical mash-up that has critics drawing comparisons to Borges-- "New York Times"

Jaws meets Alice in Wonderland . . . An avant-garde thriller in which these devil-fish of the unconscious somehow escape the symbolic realm-- "Times Literary Supplement"

No novel with a cat called Ian in it can fail to win a place in my heart-- "Daily Telegraph"

A thriller with elements of sci-fi, romance and memoir . . . A cracking read . . . but it's the outrageous inventiveness that marks it out as really special-- "Irish Independent"

A cult in the making-- "Time Out"

Very entertaining. The bastard love-child of The Matrix, Jaws and The Da Vinci Code--MARK HADDON

Clever, exciting, funny and moving-- "Sunday Times"