Max Barry. Putnam, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-08520-2. At the start of this middling SF thriller from Barry (Providence), Madison May, a 22-year-old New York City real estate agent, ...

Max Barry's disturbing novel Providence lays out the case, says Sally Adee. 1 April 2020 HAL, the AI that goes disastrously wrong in 2001: A Space Odyssey. AF Archive/Alamy. Book. Providence ...

Max Barry’s debut novel, the corporate satire “Syrup,” was published in 1999, heralding a very successful career built on an uncommonly heterogenous canon. True to form, after the far-out ...

Humanity battles hostile aliens with the aid of advanced machine intelligence, in Barry’s SF thriller, 'Providence' (Putnam, Mar.).

"Providence" by Max Barry (Putnam) A crew of research scientists makes first contact with an alien species of creatures that look like salamanders and it all goes horribly wrong. The violence i… ...