Max Barry
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| Born | 18 March 1973 Stratford, Victoria, Australia[1] |
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| Genre | Humour[2] |
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Max Barry (born 18 March 1973) is an Australian author.[3] He also maintains a blog on various topics, including politics. When he published his first novel, Syrup, he spelled his name "Maxx", but subsequently has used "Max".[4]
Barry is also the creator of NationStates, an online game created to help advertise Jennifer Government that eventually evolved into its own online community. He is the owner of the website "Tales of Corporate Oppression". He lives in Melbourne with his wife and daughters and worked as a marketer for Hewlett-Packard before he became a novelist.
In early 2004 Barry converted his web site to a blog and began regularly posting to it. In the November 2004 issue of the magazine Fast Company the novel Company was ranked at number 8 on a list of the top 100 "people, ideas, and trends that will change how we work and live in 2005".[5] Barry wrote the screenplay for Syrup, which was released in theatres on 7 June 2013. Universal Pictures has acquired screen rights to Company, which will be adapted by Steve Pink. Jennifer Government was optioned by Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney's now defunct Section Eight Productions. His book, Machine Man, initially was an online serial, but has since been updated and published in 2011 by Vintage Books. The film rights have been picked up by Mandalay Pictures.[6]
Bibliography[edit]
Novels[edit]
- Syrup (1999), ISBN 0-14-029187-3
- Jennifer Government (2003), ISBN 1-4000-3092-7
- Company (2006), ISBN 0-385-51439-5
- Machine Man (2011), ISBN 0-307-47689-8
- Lexicon (2013), ISBN 1-594-20538-8[7]
- Providence (2020), ISBN 978-0-593-08517-2
- The 22 Murders of Madison May (2021), ISBN 978-0-593-08520-2
- Discordia (2021) (audio only)
Short stories[edit]
- "Attack of the Supermodels" (2001)
- "A Shade Less Perfect" (2005)
- "Springtide" (2007)
- "How I Met My Daughter" (2007)
- "I Should Buy Some Cement" (2008)
- "It Came From Cruden Farm" (2020)
Essays[edit]
- "Succeeding In Business Through Marketing Fads" (2000)
- "Things Critics Do That Piss Me Off" (2002)
- "Why Copyright Is Doomed" (2002)
- "Australia gets closer" (2014)
References[edit]
- ^ Michael Williams, "The great unknown", The Age, 24 February 2007, A2, p. 26
- ^ "Max Barry". Goodreads. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
- ^ Barry, Max (Blog). ""The Bio"". Max
- ^ Barry, Max (2009). Jennifer Government. Doubleday. Back inside sleeve. ISBN 978-0-385-50759-2.
He is the author of the cult hit Syrup, although he spelled his name 'Maxx' for that novel, 'because it seemed like a funny joke about marketing, and I failed to realize everyone would assume I was a pretentious asshole.'
- ^ Lidsky, David (Issue 88, November 2004). "Fast Forward 2005". Fast Company. p.69
- ^ Mandalay wants to build Machine Man Variety. 4 November 2009.
- ^ Upcoming4.me. "Max Barry - Lexicon cover art (US&UK) and synopsis unveiled". Upcoming4.me. Archived from the original on 12 December 2012. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
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External links[edit]
- Max Barry's official site
- NationStates game
- Tales of Corporate Oppression
- Extensive interview of Max Barry, "To Finish Writing A Novel, You Need To Be Delusional"
- NYT Review of Company
- Max's Short Stories and Essays.
- Max Barry at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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- 1973 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Australian novelists
- 21st-century Australian novelists
- Australian male bloggers
- Australian male novelists
- Australian satirists
- Australian science fiction writers
- Australian male short story writers
- Writers from Melbourne
- 20th-century Australian short story writers
- 21st-century Australian short story writers
- 20th-century Australian male writers
- 21st-century Australian male writers