{"product_id":"9781781089248","title":"The  Quantum War","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe  Quantum War\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Derek Künsken\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe eagerly awaited third volume in the number one bestselling Quantum Evolution series. An all-new, ground-breaking, action-packed science fiction adventure set in the universe of \u003ci\u003eThe Quantum Magician \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Quantum Garden. \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe war rages onward and the Union’s premier fighter pilots, the Homo Eridanus, start encountering deadly resistance from strange pilots on the Congregate side. Among wreckage, they find that new Congregate pilots are, in fact, Homo quantus, with strange wiring and AI connections.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the same time, the Puppets come to the Union with offers of an alliance for a dangerous price: the rescue of the geneticist Antonio Del Casal who is a captive on Venus, with over a hundred Homo quantus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnly one person might be able to break through the Congregate defenses at Venus, and he’s a con man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe House Of Styx\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning new sci-fi family drama that admirably shoulders the burden of two heavy genres and distills them into an exhilarating and heart-breaking journey of discovery.\" -- \u003ci\u003eSciFiNow\u003c\/i\u003e, 5 star review\u003cbr\u003e\"Künsken’s vivid worldbuilding is a knockout... This is a must-read.\" -- \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\"Awesomely intersectional and packed full of French swear words, \u003ci\u003eThe House of Styx\u003c\/i\u003e is a great scientific adventure!\" -- \u003ci\u003eApple Books Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Quantum Magician\u003c\/i\u003e is a fabulous debut, it would make the most fantastic movie. It has everything and more, it seriously needs to be read by way more people. Highly, highly recommended.” -- \u003ci\u003eThe Curious SFF Reader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Con games and heists are always hard to write – one like this, which comes out pitch perfect, wrapped in a nuanced and striking sci-fi narrative is, to say the least, a rarity.” -- \u003ci\u003eSF and F Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Quantum Magician\u003c\/i\u003e feels like what would happen if Locke Lamora landed in Bank’s Culture, and if Locke had a lot to say about depraved humans. And I do love me a con artist story! Also? The writing is brilliant, the pacing is damn near perfect, the dialog is fun and snarky, the characters are great, I couldn’t put this book down!” -- \u003ci\u003eThe Little Red Reviewer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Quantum Magician\u003c\/i\u003e is a space adventure built on the scaffolding of a classic con job movie (think \u003ci\u003eThe Italian Job\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eOcean’s Eleven\u003c\/i\u003e). It hits all the right beats at the right time, and part of the fun in reading it is wondering: what will go wrong? Who will betray who? What will be the reversals? When done well, as in the case of \u003ci\u003eThe Quantum Magician\u003c\/i\u003e, it’s a delight to read.” -- \u003ci\u003eThe Ottawa Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A delightfully engaging heist story.” -- Caroline Mersey, \u003ci\u003eScience Fiction Book Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Quantum Magician\u003c\/i\u003e is the type of book you go back to the beginning and read again once you know how everything pans out and have those ‘why didn’t I see that the first time?’ moments.” -- \u003ci\u003eStrange Alliances\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This brainy sci-fi heist novel uses mathematics like magic to pull you through a caper worthy of Jean-Pierre Melville.” -- \u003ci\u003eThe B\u0026amp;N SciFi and Fantasy Blog\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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\u003cbr\u003e“Technology changes us—even our bodies—in fundamental ways, and Kunsken handles this wonderfully.” -- Cixin Liu\u003cbr\u003e“Künsken has a wonderfully ingenious imagination.” -- Adam Roberts, \u003ci\u003eLocus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An audacious con job, scintillating future technology, and meditations on the nature of fractured humanity.” -- Yoon Ha Lee\u003cbr\u003e“A boldly ambitious debut.” -- \u003ci\u003eSFX Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781781089248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Solaris","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40591038742734,"sku":"9781781089248","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_22d5b2f7-b21c-49b8-9625-29996debc56c.jpg?v=1646601776","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781781089248","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}