Chaos BoundHayless point is that the almost simultaneous appearance of interest in complex systems across many disciplinesphysics, mathematics, biology, information theory, literature, literary theorysignals a profound paradigm and epistemological shift. She calls the new paradigm orderly disorder. This is a timely, informative, and enormously thought provoking book. Nancy Craig Simmons American Literature N. Katherine Hayles here investigates parallels between