News

March 22, 2011
SPIRAL goes on sale in the US!

March 17, 2011
SPIRAL debuts in the United Kingdom.

March 18, 2011
SPIRAL infects the Wall Street Journal.
Big Sales for Tiny-Robot Tale:
With a story of nanotechnology, a professor's first novel spreads around the world. Read the full article.

March 13, 2011
SPIRAL reviewed in the New York Times.
Very, Very Bad Things, Very, Very Tiny Packages by Janet Maslin:
"Paul McEuen's techno-thriller, Spiral, sounds like something written by Michael Crichton in his prime...."
   —New York Times (read the full review)

March 9, 2011
Nature Magazine gives SPIRAL a glowing review.
Fiction: Attack of the killer fungi: Philip Ball applauds physicist Paul McEuen's debut thriller about a madness-inducing mould.

January 26, 2011
SPIRAL selected as Review of the Day at Booklist.
Spiral. (starred review) McEuen, Paul (Author):
"It's hard to reckon with the realization that a prominent scientist in a cutting-edge field, writing his first novel in his "spare time," has created what may be the most gripping and engrossing thriller this reviewer has ever read in almost 50 years of thriller reading...A stunning achievement."
   —Thomas Gaughan

January 24, 2011
SPIRAL profiled in Publishers Weekly First Fiction, 2011.
Publishers Weekly profiles 10 debut authors. Amazingly, three of them are currently or recently Ithacans.

December 18, 2010
SPIRAL profiled in Die Welt.
Die Welt is one of Germany's largest newspapers. The interviewer came to Ithaca for a day of discussion and tours of the setting of SPIRAL. A great piece, assuming you can read German.

December 1, 2010
SPIRAL debuts in the Netherlands under the title HET EXPERIMENT.

November, 2010
SPIRAL a bestseller in Germany.
SPIRAL makes it to number 45 on Spiegel's extended bestseller list of hardcover fiction.

October 20, 2010
SPIRAL debuts in Germany!
Scherz (the German publisher) has pulled out all the stops, even giving away a car as part of the promotion. Their website for the book is here, including a cool trailer.

April 19, 2010
SPIRAL, the Movie?
SPIRAL has been optioned by Chockstone Pictures, the makers of THE ROAD.