The Tesseract (novel)

The Tesseract
First edition (UK)
Author	Alex Garland
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Publisher	Viking Press (UK) Riverhead Books (US)
Publication date	1998 (UK), 1999 (US)
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	226
ISBN	0-670-87016-1
OCLC	40360022

The Tesseract is a 1998 English-language novel by Alex Garland. The story intertwines the lives of Manila gangsters, mothers and street children. The novel chronicles numerous characters in non-linear storylines and explores themes of love, fate, violence, power, and choices. It is Garland's second novel.

The term 'tesseract' is used for the three-dimensional net of the four-dimensional hypercube rather than the hypercube itself. It is a metaphor for the characters' inability to understand the causes behind the events which shape their lives: they can only visualize the superficial world they inhabit.

The book was adapted into a film, The Tesseract, which changed the setting to Bangkok. It was directed by Oxide Pang and starred Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Saskia Reeves.

Works by Alex Garland

Novels	The Beach (1996) The Tesseract (1998) The Coma (2004)

Screenplays	28 Days Later (2002) Sunshine (2007) 28 Weeks Later (executive producer) (2007) Never Let Me Go (executive producer) (2010) Dredd (producer) (2012)

Films	Ex Machina (screenplay, director) (2015)

Video games	Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (co-writer) (2010) DmC: Devil May Cry (story supervisor) (2013)

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