Brilliantly realised... strikingly relevant... a resounding success * SFX *
Highly entertaining and engrossing... characters that are both complicated and likeable * SciFi Now *
Gripping... a pitch-perfect thriller, a jetpack of a plot that rocketed me from page one to page 400 in a single afternoon -- Cory Doctorow * BoingBoing *
Truly original... a crack-paced thriller... smart and tons of fun * Australian *
Barry's smartest dystopia yet * io9 *
Sophisticated and laden with subtext... clearly reaffirms Barry's status as a gifted purveyor of suspense * Time Out New York *
Best thing I've read in a long, long time... a masterpiece -- Hugh Howey, bestselling author of
WoolWonderfully crafted, dark yet humourous, fast-paced and tragic in turn * National *
An extraordinarily fast, funny, cerebral thriller -- Lev Grossman * Time *
Delightfully high-concept...think Noam Chomsky meets Christopher Nolan * Vogue *
Insanely good. Dark and twisted and sweet and humane all at once * Lauren Beukes, author of
Zoo City and
The Shining Girls *
Dazzling and spectacularly inventive. A novel that jams itself sideways into your brain and
stays there.
* Mike Carey, author of
The Devil You Know *
The perfect mix of philosophical play and shotgun-inflected chase scenes. Like someone let Grant Morrison loose on the Bourne identity franchise. -- Austin Grossman, author of
You and
Soon I Will Be InvincibleLEXICON grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily credible parallel society, punctuated by bouts of laugh-out-loud humor. * Chris Pavone, author of
The Expats *
A spellbinding, intelligent read...a freewheeling plot intermeshed with linguistic theory and some genuinely creepy horror set-pieces * Guardian *
