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Томас Куинн - писатель-неудачник, чей первый роман пользовался небольшой популярностью, а второй и вовсе оказался никому не нужен. Счета копятся, фрустрация нарастает, жизнь кажется Куинну серой и унылой, как вдруг он получает голосовое сообщение от своего отца, Стэнли Куинна, который умер семь лет назад. Их отношения были непростыми, так как Стэнли предпочитал общаться не с собственным сыном, а со своим учеником и протеже Эндрю Блэком. Тот выпустил огромный роман-сенсацию, международный бестселлер «Двигатель Купидона», а потом исчез без следа. Вскоре Томас получает письмо и от Блэка с фотографией странной черной сферы, после чего с…

First things first, stay calm.
Eric Sanderson wakes up in a place he doesn’t recognise, unable to remember who he is. All he has left are journal entries recalling Clio, a perfect love now gone. As he begins to piece his memories back together, Eric finds that he is being hunted by a creature that moves in language, that swims through the currents of human interaction.
With the help of his cynical cat Ian, Eric must search for the Ludovician, the force that is threatening his life, and Dr Trey Fidorus, the only man who knows the truth.

Thomas Quinn is having the strangest autumn …
Nine years ago, his mentor Andrew Black wrote a million-copy-selling mystery novel – and then disappeared. Now could it be that Thomas is being stalked by the hero of Black’s book? And that new answerphone message sounds a lot like his own father. His father who has been dead for years.
Thomas’s wife Imogen usually has the answers but she’s on the other side of the world. If he can just find Black, perhaps Thomas might start finding some answers …
With the same white-knuckle thrills as Hall’s first novel, The Raw Shark Texts, Maxwell’s Demon is a freewheeling investigation into the magic power locked inside the alphabet, love through the looking glass, the bond between parents and children, and, at its heart, the quest for meaning in a chaotic and untidy world.

Fourteen years after the monumental publication of the international best seller The Raw Shark Texts, Maxwell's Demon heralds the triumphant return of Granta Best Young British Novelist Steven Hall

Thomas Quinn is having a hard time. A failed novelist, he's stuck writing short stories and audio scripts for other people's characters. His wife, Imogen, is working on a remote island halfway around the world, and talking to her over the webcam isn't the same. The bills are piling up, the dirty dishes are stacking in the sink, and the whole world seems to be hurtling toward entropic collapse. Then he gets a voicemail from his father, who has been dead for seven years.

Thomas' relationship with Stanley Quinn - a world-famous writer and erstwhile absent father - was always shaky, not least because Stanley always seemed to prefer his enigmatic assistant and protégé Andrew Black to his own son. Yet after Black published his first book, Cupid's Engine, which went on to sell over a million copies, he disappeared completely. Now strange things are happening to Thomas, and he can't help but wonder if Black is tugging at the seams of his world behind the scenes.

Absurdly brilliant, wildly entertaining, and utterly mind-bending, Maxwell's Demon triumphantly excavates the ways we construct meaning in a world where chaotic collapse looms closer every day.

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.

This autumn, life is catching up with struggling novelist Thomas Quinn.

Five years ago, his sometimes friend Andrew Black wrote a single, million-copy-selling mystery novel and then disappeared. Now 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 can find Black, he might start finding answers.

Maxwell's Demon forges an entirely new blend of mystery - somewhere between detective fiction, ghost story and philosophical quest. With the same white-knuckle thrills as Hall's first novel, The Raw Shark Texts, this new audiobook is also a freewheeling investigation into the magic power locked inside the alphabet, love through the looking glass, the bond between parents and children, and, at its heart, the quest for meaning in a world that, with each passing season, seems to become more chaotic and untidy.

Впервые на русском — самый поразительный дебют в британской прозе последних лет! Этого автора сравнивали с Филипом Диком и Майклом Крайтоном, Дугласом Адамсом и Харуки Мураками. Герой книги, Эрик Андерсен (второй), ничего не помнит о своей прошлой жизни: врачи полагают, что всю память стерла сильнейшая травма. Однако Эрик получает письма от Эрика Андерсена (первого), который объясняет ему, как составить из четырех диктофонов бездивергентную концептуальную петлю, как найти Комитет по исследованию внепространственного мира, как расшифровать Фрагмент о лампе... Но все эти полумеры не спасут Эрика от безжалостного хищника, неутомимо…

Wenn Du das hier liest, bin ich nicht mehr da. Geh ans Telefon, und drück die Kurzwahltaste 1. Der Frau, die den Hörer abnimmt, sagst Du, Du seist Eric Sanderson.« Mit diesem unerklärlichen Brief, gezeichnet »der Erste Eric Sanderson«, beginnt für Eric Sanderson ein Abenteuer jenseits aller Vorstellungskraft, in dem nur eins sicher ist: Er wird von einer unsichtbaren Macht verfolgt, die sein Leben bedroht. Aber vielleicht geschieht das alles nur in seinen Gedanken?

Eric Sanderson is jolted awake one morning to discover that he does not know who he is or where he is. All that he has to cling to is a series of letters and packages—which he is warned not to open—signed “with regret and hope” from the First Eric Sanderson. Attacked in his own home by a force he cannot see and memories he cannot ignore—including those of a perfect love now lost—Eric tears open the parcels and discovers he is being relentlessly pursued by a shark that may exist only in his mind, but which stalks him through the flows and streams of language and human interaction. Hunting the answers as he is hunted, Eric is led on a journey that will either bring the First Eric Sanderson back to life or destroy both Eric Sandersons forever.

A daring and unique novel that confronts readers with literary hieroglyphs as well as an intensely original story,

The Raw Shark Texts plumbs the depths and dangers of language, the fluidity of memory and the bittersweet ripples of loss.