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The Quantum Magician de Derek Künsken

The Quantum Magician: The Quantum Evolution, cartea 1

Autor Derek Künsken
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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 oct 2018
The Ultimate Heist

Belisarius is a Homo quantus, engineered with impossible insight. But his gift is also a curse – an uncontrollable, even suicidal drive to know, to understand. Genetically flawed, he leaves his people to find a different life, and ends up becoming the galaxy's greatest con man and thief.

But the jobs are getting too easy and his extraordinary brain is chafing at the neglect. When a client offers him untold wealth to move a squadron of secret warships across an enemy wormhole, Belisarius jumps at it.

Now he must embrace his true nature to pull off the job, alongside a crew of extraordinary men and women. If he succeeds, he could trigger an interstellar war... or the next step in human evolution.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781781085707
ISBN-10: 1781085706
Pagini: 480
Ilustrații: illustrated throughout
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Solaris
Colecția Solaris
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Victor Tanasa a dat nota:

I was so close to giving up on this. The book starts with Bel, the con man, assembling a group of misfits to help him pull off an audacious heist, Ocean's 11 style. It felt a bit by the numbers and I wasn't surprised when all of them agreed to join in. This part was sprinkled with fragments of world-building and characterisation, but too little for my tastes and by the hundredth page I wasn't sure I cared about all these characters. But after the gang got together, things started improving fast. Motivations were discussed, you got to learn more about the different factions inhabiting Künsken's universe, the plan and its implications are revealed. From there till the end it was great fun. The author clearly possesses a vast imagination. The way he constructed the different races of mankind was really well done, as were the the Quantum's man abilities. Although they stem from real science but then quickly venture into fantasy territory, that wasn't an issue at all, as they were interesting and used well. Excellent for a debut novel.

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Notă biografică

Derek Künsken has built genetically engineered viruses, worked with street children and refugees in Latin America, served as a Canadian diplomat, and, most importantly, taught his son about super-heroes and science. His short fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Beneath Ceaseless Skies and multiple times in Asimov’s Science Fiction. His stories have been adapted into audio podcasts, reprinted in various Year’s Best anthologies, and translated into multiple languages. They have also been short-listed for various awards, and won the Asimov’s Readers’ Award in 2013.

Recenzii

"The Quantum Magician is the type of book you go back to... and read again" -- Strange Alliances
"...a caper worthy of Jean-Pierre Melville" -- The B&N SciFi and Fantasy Blog
"A boldly ambitious debut" -- SFX Magazine
"...a delightfully engaging heist story." -- Caroline Mersey, Science Fiction Book Club
"I have no problems raving about this book. A truly wild backdrop of space-opera with wormholes, big space-fleet conflict and empires.... what could go wrong?" -- Brad K. Horner
"Technology changes us-even our bodies-in fundamental ways, and Kunsken handles this wonderfully" -- Cixin Liu
"An audacious con job, scintillating future technology, and meditations on the nature of fractured humanity" -- Yoon Ha Lee

Descriere

Belisarius is a quantum man, an engineered Homo quantus who fled the powerful insight of dangerously addictive quantum senses. He found a precarious balance as a con man, but when a client offers him untold wealth to move a squadron of warships across an enemy wormhole, he must embrace his birthright to even try. In fact, the job is so big that he'll need a crew built from all the new sub-branches of humanity. If he succeeds, he might trigger an interstellar war, but success might also point the way to the next step of Homo quantus evolution.

* The breathtaking debut from acclaimed short story writer Derek Künsken.
* The Quantum Magician is set in the same universe as Derek's Persephone Descending, which appeared in the November, 2014 issue of Analog, as well as stories published in Analog's sister magazine, Asimov's Scenice Fiction.
* "With its audacious con job, scintillating future technology, and meditations on the nature of fractured humanity, The Quantum Magician is a pleasure to read." – Yoon Ha Lee
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