A long con involving three dispirit divergent homo sub-species, a self described divine AI, a dishinged bomb maker, a delinquent geneticist, a dying con man, and a démodé fleet leapfrogging technology with an eleven year cycled paired time traveling wormhole.
Hard science fiction that starts as a slow read until the brain can wrap around the nuances, then it pops big time. I absolutely loved it.
Enough detailed science for the geek at heart to sift through; exquisite characters; the requisite divergence, subjugation and domination of the different factions; and cringingly: The Puppets.
I received an Advance Reader Copy from NetGalley and Rebellion Publishing in exchange for an honest review.
Publishing Date: October 2nd 2018 by Solaris
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Publisher’s Description: Belisarius is a quantum man, an engineered Homo quantus who fled the powerful insight of dangerously addictive quantum senses. He found a precarious balance as a con man, but when a client offers him untold wealth to move a squadron of warships across an enemy wormhole, he must embrace his birthright to even try. In fact, the job is so big that he’ll need a crew built from all the new sub-branches of humanity. If he succeeds, he might trigger an interstellar war, but success might also point the way to the next step of Homo quantus evolution.
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