The Quantum Magician: 1 - Brossura

Kunsken, Derek

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1781085706 ISBN 13: 9781781085707

Casa editrice: Solaris, 2018

Riassunto

The breathtaking debut from acclaimed short story writer Derek Künsken.

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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Recensione:

An audacious con job, scintillating future technology, and meditations on the nature of fractured humanity. --Yoon Ha Lee

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

...a delightfully engaging heist story. --(Caroline Mersey, Science Fiction Book Club

L'autore:

Derek Künsken's 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. The Canadian-based author's work has been translated into French and Mandarin.

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• Editore: Solaris
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1781085706
• ISBN 13: 9781781085707
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 475