The Quantum Magician

Posted on 03 January 2017 by Derek Künsken

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. Free Download Books The Quantum Magician author Derek Künsken – kino-fada.fr 5 Stars Outrageously Imaginative Delicious hard science, even to the mysteries of quantum unknowns, quantum possibilities Great prose, fabulous characters, far better than any Oceans 11 rip off you could imagine Rigorously founded in real science, and extrapolating wonderfully into sci fi I m happy to watch various physical laws be broken now and then for such a great heist plotAs usual with my reviews, please first read the publisher s blurb summary of the book Thank you, NetGalley an 5 Stars Outrageously Imaginative Delicious hard science, even to the mysteries of quantum unknowns, quantum possibilities Great prose, fabulous characters, far better than any Oceans 11 rip off you could imagine Rigorously founded in real science, and extrapolating wonderfully into sci fi I m happy to watch various physical laws be broken now and then for such a great heist plotAs usual with my reviews, please first read the publisher s blurb summary of the book Thank you, NetGalley and Solaris for this ARC.Some amazing world building here, and the relationship between the Puppet race of humans and their Divine masters, the Numen, is extraordinary I ve never read such an incredible master slave race construct before.This is a heist story, with each extraordinary character fulfilling a role in the crime, each one amazing and full bodied in behaviour and thought The heist barrels along, with unexpected but quite plausible twis...Originally posted at multifarious, space faring human civilization Derek K nsken envisions for his debut novel The Quantum Magician relies on a network of wormholes to move from system to system Powerful patron nations control all the wormholes while subordinate client nations must contract with patrons to use them The Sub Saharan Union, a small client nation, longs for independence from the hegemonic Congregate, which controls access to the only wor Originally posted at multifarious, space faring human civilization Derek K nsken envisions for his debut novel The Quantum Magician relies on a network of wormholes to move from system to system Powerful patron nations control all the wormholes while subordin...I have no problems raving about this book It has everything I love about SF and then I get the best things I love about the thriller mystery genre HEISTS.At first, I believed this was written as a homage or aaccessible version of Hannu Rajaniemi s Quantum Thief, and I was right to a degree It forwent the truly odd stuff and gave us a readable and full explanation of quantum mechanics and name dropped a fewwhile throwing us into awidespread future that never quite touched I have no problems raving about this book It has everything I love about SF and then I get the best things I love about the thriller mystery genre HEISTS.At first, I believed this was written as a homage or aaccessible version of Hannu Rajaniemi s Quantum Thief, and I was right to a degree It forwent the truly odd stuff and gave us a readable and full explanation of quantum mechanics and name dropped a fewwhile throwing us into awidespread future that never quite touched the singularity.In other words, it had odd cultures and odder branches of humanity but it still felt a lot like everything we know Bruisers coming in the form of gene modded humans able to withstand punishing press...I was overjoyed to come across this on a best books of October list that I instantly grabbed a copy as it sounded right up my reading street I have a soft spot for science fiction so long as it has an original and intriguing premise, and this most certainly did I mean, what could be better than the heist of a lifetime in space Trust me, you have never read a book like this before Make no mistake, this is hard science fiction at its absolute best, and a simply magnificent full length deb I was overjoyed to come across this on a best books of October list that I instantly grabbed a copy as it sounded right up my reading street I have a soft spot for science fiction so long as it has an original and intriguing premise, and this most certainly did I mean, what could be better than...Some books you know almost immediately aren t going to work for you And yet the obsessive compulsive reader might feel compelled to finish them anyway And that kinda sucks And yes, I am such a reader, a completist by nature And this one had such a promising premise and title and turned out to be such a chore to get through From page one it was just too sciency, for the lack of aappropriate word Sure it is science fiction, some science is to be expected, but this was positively overlo Some books you know almost immediately aren t going to work for you And yet the obsessive compulsive reader might feel compelled to finish them anyway And that kinda sucks And yes, I am such a reader, a completist by nature And this one had such a promising premise and title and turned out to be such a chore to get through From page one it was just too sciency, for the lack of aappropriate word Sure it is science fiction, some science is to be expected, but this was positively overloaded with the techy aspects, so that it was in fact top heavy But the time you get to the bottom, fiction in this case, you re tired and kind of indifferent In fact it wasn t until ab...The Quantum Magician is the debut sci fi novel from Derek K nsken It s a book nominally about a heist and a con, moving some impossibly precious things from one place to another without interacting with the intervening authorities But it s also a story about humanity and transhumanism about the way people are willing to change themselves or others to adapt to an environment, and about the costs that are born out of that decision It s about old friendships and new alliances the trust you ca The Quantum Magician is the debut sci fi novel from Derek K nsken It s a book nominally about a heist and a con, moving some impossibly precious things from one place to another without interacting with the intervening authorities But it s also a story about humanity and transhumanism about the way people are willing to change themselves or others to adapt to an environment, and about the costs that are born out of that decision It s about old friendships and new alliances the trust you can put into those who have never betrayed you, and in those who have hurt you before It s a human story well, mostly One about people, the way they interact with each other, what they re willing to do, and what or who they re willing to compromise to reach their goals But there s also a ...Many thanks to Solaris and Netgalley for this read I was very excited to read this book, but also a little apprehensive In theory I love hard science fi, because it seems so real, so true, so possible But in practice, I m easily lost most hard science fi books dwells on physics and, if I know that universe and space mean physics, and if I m genuinely interested in the subject, it s alas a case of unrequited love there I love science in general, but my kind of science is clearly biology Many thanks to Solaris...Belisarius Arjona was taught by a con man that there are only three bets Sometimes, you play the cards Sometimes, you play the player Sometimes, you just throw the dice Well, as the Quantum Magician, Bel played all three simultaneously in the ultimate con For you see, Bel is a Homo quantus, born from a scientific project founded upon the precept that consciousness collapses quantum systems into clear outcomes, as epitomised by Schrodinger s cat A Homo quantus brain has been engineered at Belisarius Arjona was taught by a con man that there are only three bets Sometimes, you play the cards Sometimes, you play the player Sometimes, you just throw the dice Well, as the Quantum Magician, Bel played all three simultaneously in the ultimate con For you see, Bel is a Homo quantus, born from a scientific project founded upon the precept that consciousness collapses quantum systems into clear outcomes, as epitomised by Schrodinger s cat A Homo quantus brain has been engineered at will to discard the consciousness and subjectivity, to enter into a quantum fugue that does not collapse the quantum phenomena and thereby exposes an array of overlapping probabilities So begins the ultimate heist wherein he assembles a disparate team consisting of an experienced con man, inside man, demolitions expert, navigator, electronics wizard, exotic deep diver and a geneticist.I really enjoyed the diverseness of advanced life from the loath...Publishing Date October 2018Publisher RebellionISBN 9781781085707Genre SciFiRating 4.7 5Publisher s Description Balisarius is a quantum man, created to serve, made for a world that requires every moment to be monitored He flees his creators, his supposed place in the world, his purpose to curve out a normal life Now, he is the world s most infamous con man When a client offers him untold wealth to move a squadron of warships across an enemy wormhole, Belisarius must embrace his true nat Publishing Date October 2018Publisher RebellionISBN 9781781085707Genre SciFiRating 4.7 5Publisher s Description Balisarius is a quantum man, created to serve, made for a world that requires every moment to be monitored He flees his creators, his supposed place in the world, his purpose to curve out a normal life Now, he is the world s most infamous con man Whe...My background in quantum theory consists of understanding about one sentence in three in the quantum theory chapter of Goedel, Escher, Bach which I thought was reasonably good going And that was some years ago, so I am far from qualified to talk about the physics of this book That didn t matter to my enjoyment of the st...

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03 January 2017

Derek Künsken