Juris Ex Machina

JURIS EX MACHINA serves up a potent recipe spiced with an inventive plot, characters to match, constant action, and tension so real you will bite through the inside of your lower lip. John Maly conjures an entirely new world that does not immerse you, it swallows you whole...

-- Kirk Marty, author of Quantum Terra

John W. Maly’s first novel is a taut, suspenseful, mind-bending thriller that’s as doom laden and timely as tomorrow’s headlines... a dark spiral that will have readers up all night turning the pages.
-- Jay Bonansinga, New York Times bestselling author of Stan Lee’s The Devil’s Quintet: The Armageddon Code and The Walking Dead novels

This book should NOT be classified as Science Fiction but, instead, Science Probability...a thoroughly entertaining and completely plausible look of where our future may very well be headed...
-- Dean Haglund, actor in The Lone Gunman and The X-Files

Technical without being pompous, this intelligently composed novel is an arresting trip into a terrifyingly plausible future where justice has been reduced to equations and algorithms… Not a single word goes to waste, as brilliant plotting, subtle foreshadowing, and purposeful scenes connect everything, though never predictably.
-- Jennifer Jackson, Indies Today

John Maly’s JURIS EX MACHINA is that rare fictional creation: a deeply compelling story, one that surprises and delights with its inventiveness and crisply unfurling plot, and one that’s also populated by characters who are finely textured—feeling, breathing, living creatures whose concerns quickly become the concerns of the reader. In a word, it’s engrossing. You've got to read this book.
-- Jack Livings, award-winning author of The Blizzard Party and The Dog

This novel will captivate readers who enjoy thought-provoking narratives exploring the intersection of AI and human reliance on technology. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
-- Stephanie Runyon, OnlineBookClub

A page-turner you won’t want to put down! John W. Maly pulls us into a cinematic future world and delivers a story that makes us question the relationship between humanity and technology, even as the plot takes us on a breathless edge-of-our-seats ride.
-- Kris Faatz, author of Fourteen Stones

Juris Ex Machina is a fast-paced book set in a futuristic domed city… the world is well-developed and so vividly described I felt like I was in the middle of the story.
-- The International Review of Books

Maly reveals a deep understanding of both technology and law—creating  a compelling story and characters that keeps the reader on the hook until the final page.
-- K. C. O'Connell

Deftly balancing reality and science fiction, Juris Ex Machina presents a what-if tale of frightening proportions...
-- James Burnham, author of The Fruit of the Fallen

JURIS EX MACHINA is a rip-roaring, wild, and kaleidoscopic ride that lies somewhere between Orwell’s 1984, Asimov’s I Robot, and The Road Warrior. It leads readers through a scintillating, futuristic world of dystopian intrigue...
-- Liam Taliesin, author of Lithium Fire

This riveting, timely novel invites us to take a hard look at humanity’s best intentions run amok, and at the enormous risk of surrendering fallible free will to idealistic, automated systems.
-- Angela Pneuman, author of Lay It On My Heart and Home Remedies

John Maly envisions a world of computers running the show using artificial intelligence as the brain power behind everything including legal decisions.... [A] compelling story that is both terrifying and touchingly human.... A fast-paced read into the AI world of the future.”
-- Linda Moore, author of Attribution and Five Days in Bogota

Juris Ex Machina is a genre-bending science fiction thriller set in the distant future... The world building here is extraordinary. I was easily able to suspend disbelief and enter life in Arcadia. The author has degrees in law and computer engineering and has worked in computer technology litigation, so he is well-versed in his subject matter. Juris Ex Machina is well worth reading for its insights into artificial intelligence.
-- Suanne Schafer, Midwest Book Review

It has it all, a sci fi plot, a love story, a likable main character who is demonized. I don't want to give away any spoilers but check this book out, you won't regret it.
-- BookSirens

I found it hard to put Juris Ex Machina down! Antihero Rainville starts out as a clever, kind, but immature guy, who lives in a future where tech makes his life easy. It all changes when Rainville is wrongly found guilty by a jury of robotic minds for using tech to blow up a city block. Hooked, I dove into the story to discover if true justice was possible for Rainville.
-- Maribeth Decker, author of Peace in Passing

Maly’s style of writing is as poetic as it is thought-provoking. His characters pull on your heart strings and his storyline will cause you to question everything you’ve ever known about the past, present, and future of the legal field. This fabulous debut novel has passages that make you close your eyes just so you can savor them. This is the kind of book you'll want to revisit time and again. An incredible read from start to finish, that will leave you wanting more and hoping for a sequel!
-- Angela W.

JURIS EX MACHINA introduced me to an extraordinary world I didn’t know existed... This is an extremely powerful story with a plot with so many twists and turns, it is impossible to put the book down! I recommend it to anybody who enjoys a genius futuristic novel.
-- Maryam S.