{"product_id":"the-quantum-magician","title":"The Quantum Magician","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduct Description The number one bestsellerNominated for the Locus, Aurora andXing Yun (Chinese Nebula) Awards,and Longlisted for the British Science Fiction Associationand Sunburst AwardsTHE ULTIMATE HEIST Belisarius is aHomo 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 galaxys 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. Review An audacious con job, scintillating future technology, and meditations on the nature of fractured humanity -- Yoon Ha LeeTechnology changes us-even our bodies-in fundamental ways, and Kunsken handles this wonderfully -- Cixin LiuI 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 ClubA boldly ambitious debut SFX Magazine...a caper worthy of Jean-Pierre Melville B\u0026amp;N SciFiThe Quantum Magician is the type of book you go back to...and read again Strange Alliances About the Author Derek Knskens short fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Beneath Ceaseless Skies and multiple times in Asimovs Science Fiction. His stories have been adapted into audio podcasts, reprinted in various Years Best anthologies, and translated into multiple languages. They have also been short-listed for various awards, and won the Asimovs Readers Award in 2013. The Canadian-based authors work has been translated into French and Mandarin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Solaris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45885127426246,"sku":"DADAX1781085706","price":435.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/9389\/1014\/files\/71trpbwX5FL.jpg?v=1779855426","url":"https:\/\/ergodemedia.com\/products\/the-quantum-magician","provider":"Ergodemedia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}