SCIENCE FICTION/THRILLER

Title: Lexicon
Author: Barry, Max
Pub.: Penguin, 2013
Series: Standalone

THE BOOK: Car chases, kidnappings, blowing stuff up — all these elements are most often found in your bog standard thriller and yet they all can be found in the first 50 pages of Max Barry’s latest SF book Lexicon.  There are two storylines in Lexicon which playfully obscure and reveal truths about each other as they race to a action-packed convergence in the end of the book.   (more…)