Coming September 5, 2023 from Tor Books

Exadelic

Philip K. Dick meets Neal Stephenson in this tale of programmable reality

When an unconventional offshoot of the US military trains an artificial intelligence in the dark arts that humanity calls “black magic,” it learns how to hack the fabric of reality itself. It can teleport matter. It can confer immunity to bullets. And it decides that obscure Silicon Valley middle manager Adrian Ross is the primary threat to its existence.

Soon Adrian is on the run, wanted by every authority, with no idea how or why he could be a threat. His predicament seems hopeless; his future, nonexistent. But when he investigates the AI and its creators, he discovers his problems are even stranger than they seem…and unearths revelations that will propel him on a journey — and a love story — across worlds, eras, and minds.

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Readers React

The reaction to Exadelic is unanimous in one respect; this is no ordinary book.

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“This book—this book…now this book is truly great, and also really weird … I really had to send out for a new barrel of Wows … Brilliant, incredible, pushing the edges of what SF can do.”
Jo Walton on ExadelicHugo, Nebula, World Fantasy winner
“I’ve been reading this insane book for the last 24 hours. I can honestly say I’ve never read anything remotely like this … kind of out of adjectives to describe just how bananas this thing is.”
Unnamed Hollywood exec(on Exadelic)
“Thought-provoking … Mr Evans shows great potential.”
The Economist(on Invisible Armies)
“Evans can write, when he isn’t trying to be Bruce Willis.” — Washington Post
The Washington Post(on Blood Price)

About The Author

Jon is an author, engineer, journalist, CTO, and archivist. His journalism has appeared in The Guardian, Wired, Quartz, The Globe & Mail, The Walrus, and (weekly, for a decade) TechCrunch. He has traveled to more than 100 countries and reported from Iraq, Haiti, Colombia, and the Congo. Jon has been CTO of technical consultancy HappyFunCorp, technical architect of Bookshop.org, and founding director of the GitHub Archive Program, preserving the world’s open-source software in a permafrost vault beneath an Arctic mountain for 1,000 years. He now works at the AI/forecasting company Metaculus. Exadelic is his first novel in over a decade.

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Previous Novels

Travel Thrillers and Vertigo Crime

Jon’s critically acclaimed “travel technothrillers” — Dark Places, Blood Price, Invisible Armies, Night of Knives, and Swarm — are an interlinked series of novels depicting the 2000s era of globalization, the rise of the Internet and smartphones, and their collective impact on the developing world … as seen through the eyes of travelers caught up in extraordinary (and extraordinarily dangerous) situations across far-flung corners of the world: Nepal, Indonesia, Morocco, the war-torn Balkans, coastal Belize, kaleidoscopic India, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Colombia, Haiti, Dubai, and beyond. Dark Places won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel.

His Vertigo Crime graphic novel The Executor, one of Comic Book Resources’ Top Ten of 2010, is a dark tale set in a small border region caught — stuck, really — between the US and Canada, good and evil, the haunted past and the unimaginable future.

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Beasts of New York

Jon’s previous and — until now — most beloved novel is a dark and epic fantasy about the squirrels of Central Park. Published in a gorgeous print edition by The Porcupine’s Quill, it is now free to read online.

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