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The Quantum Garden, Derek Künsken’s second novel, picks up directly after the conclusion of The Quantum Magician and offers another compelling and thought-provoking hard sci-fi adventure. Having pulled off the con of a lifetime and escaped with the time gates, Belisarius and Cassie are quickly thrown back into danger when the lives of the entire homo quantus population are threatened. Enlisting the sceptical assistance of Colonel Iekanjika and risking an irreparable paradox, they put the time gates to hazardous use and travel back in time to search for answers in the history of the Sixth Expeditionary Force, while the implacable Scarecrow dogs them every step of the way.

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Derek Künsken’s debut novel The Quantum Magician wraps a classic heist story up in hard sci-fi stylings, and delivers everything you’d want from both of those elements. In a distant future where competing Earth nations have expanded into the stars, engineering strange new branches of humanity, opportunities are still rife for hustlers. Belisarius Arjona is homo quantus, engineered to see into the quantum realm without disturbing it, which makes him a superlative con man. When he’s commissioned for a complex job requiring some very specialised help, he recognises the dangers but his pattern-seeking brain can’t resist the intricacy of the challenge.

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