Max Barry was born in 1973 and lives in Melbourne, Australia. He worked for tech giant HP before he began writing fiction and developed the online nation simulation game NationStates as well as contributing to various open source software projects. He has written 4 acclaimed novels - Syrup, Company, Jennifer Government and now Machine Man - which brilliantly satirize various states of the current western human condition. His new novel, Lexicon, is published this summer.

"A meticulously devised, deviant little parable - once it starts, you can't look away" -- Austin Grossman, author of Soon I Will Be Invincible "Wickedly entertaining. A brilliant book: caustically funny and - by its closing chapter - surprisingly moving" -- SCOTT SMITH, author of The Ruins "Using precision-engineered prose, Max Barry has built a gleaming, terrifying device: part love story, part horror story, part thought experiment, all entertaining" -- Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe "Don't open this one unless you're prepared to keep reading until the last page is done" -- Seth Godin, author of Linchpin "Wickely entertaining...a brilliant book: caustically funny, and - by its closing chapter - surprisingly moving." -- SCOTT SMITH, author of A Simple Plan and The Ruins

Max Barry was born in 1973 and lives in Melbourne, Australia. He worked for tech giant HP before he began writing fiction and developed the online nation simulation game NationStates as well as contributing to various open source software projects. He has written 4 acclaimed novels - Syrup, Company, Jennifer Government and now Machine Man - which brilliantly satirize various states of the current western human condition. His new novel, Lexicon, is published this summer.

"A meticulously devised, deviant little parable - once it starts, you can't look away" -- Austin Grossman, author of Soon I Will Be Invincible "Wickedly entertaining. A brilliant book: caustically funny and - by its closing chapter - surprisingly moving" -- SCOTT SMITH, author of The Ruins "Using precision-engineered prose, Max Barry has built a gleaming, terrifying device: part love story, part horror story, part thought experiment, all entertaining" -- Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe "Don't open this one unless you're prepared to keep reading until the last page is done" -- Seth Godin, author of Linchpin "Wickely entertaining...a brilliant book: caustically funny, and - by its closing chapter - surprisingly moving." -- SCOTT SMITH, author of A Simple Plan and The Ruins

Max Barry was born in 1973 and lives in Melbourne, Australia. He worked for tech giant HP before he began writing fiction and developed the online nation simulation game NationStates as well as contributing to various open source software projects. He has written 4 acclaimed novels - Syrup, Company, Jennifer Government and now Machine Man - which brilliantly satirize various states of the current western human condition. His new novel, Lexicon, is published this summer.

"A meticulously devised, deviant little parable - once it starts, you can't look away" -- Austin Grossman, author of Soon I Will Be Invincible "Wickedly entertaining. A brilliant book: caustically funny and - by its closing chapter - surprisingly moving" -- SCOTT SMITH, author of The Ruins "Using precision-engineered prose, Max Barry has built a gleaming, terrifying device: part love story, part horror story, part thought experiment, all entertaining" -- Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe "Don't open this one unless you're prepared to keep reading until the last page is done" -- Seth Godin, author of Linchpin "Wickely entertaining...a brilliant book: caustically funny, and - by its closing chapter - surprisingly moving." -- SCOTT SMITH, author of A Simple Plan and The Ruins