Quarantine : A Novel (Paperback)

from sarcher

Fun look at free will, especially the conflict between entities which can shape reality. Who makes the choice?

from igor.kh

Egan is one of the few writers who knows enough physics to put the science in science fiction. He does it with enough credibility to make it interesting even to experts. At the same time, he goes to great lengths to make the subject intelligible to casual readers as well. The novel takes seriousl...

from sarcher

Fun look at free will, especially the conflict between entities which can shape reality. Who makes the choice?

from ChrisRiesbeck

Early classic Egan -- the stars disappeared when the solar system was enclosed in the Bubble, but that's many years past when the book starts. Instead the novel begins with a simpler disappearance, that of a young woman of very limited intellectual capacity. Told in full sf-noir fashion, from the...

from antao

"[character referring to quantum entanglement and wave function collapse] 'so, what should they call it?' 'Oh...neural linear decomposition of the state vector, followed by phase-shifting and preferential reinforcements of selected eigenstates.'" In "Quarantine" by Greg Egan "'So...where's the pr...