Quantum Garden

No spoilers, but there's a lot to love in this follow-up to the Quantum Magician. For those of us who love it, there's a lot of hi-tech spec-speak with near-autistic mental states and high-computation, but there's also time-travel, a brand new con, and a twisty-turvy plot. Sounds pretty standard, tho,......more

Derek Kunsken continues the story of Homo Quantus by Belisarius the Archon from a distant singular future, where a variety of genetically modified human types has not changed the deep essence of vices and weaknesses. Anger, greed, envy, possessiveness and aggression still rule the ball. And Velezariu......more

The Quantum Garden (Book 2 in The Quantum Evolution series) was quite fun! Although not substantially different from Book 1 in the series (my review of The Quantum Magician is here), I enjoyed it more. After Book 1, the world building has been established, which allows Künsken to focus less on the......more

The Quantum Garden, the second instalment in The Quantum Evolution series by the superb Derek Künsken, is even more thrilling and intense than its predecessor and putting it down was a real problem and one I rarely get when reading science/speculative fiction. The combination of different elements m......more