Superposition
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.53 (602 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1633880125 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 303 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A QUANTUM PHYSICS MURDER MYSTERY.A Mind-Bending, Near-Future, Science Fiction Technothriller.Jacob Kelley's family is turned upside down when an old friend turns up, waving a gun and babbling about an alien quantum intelligence. Jacob is arrested for the murder and put on trial. As the details of the crime slowly come to light, the weave of reality becomes ever more tangled, twisted by a miraculous new technology and a quantum creature unconstrained by the normal limits of space and matter. The mystery deepens when the friend is found dead in an underground bunker…apparently murdered the night he appeared at Jacob's house. With the help of his daughter, Alessandra, Jacob must find the true murderer before the creature destroys his family and everything he loves.
"Just Read It!" according to Deborah Stengele. It truly is tough to put the book down because you want to know from the very first page what happens next. Just read it! Really!. "Science fiction first, thriller second, murder mystery last" according to A. J Terry. Superposition is told in two strictly alternating viewpoints, in chapters clearly labeled Up-Spin and Down-Spin (until the last chapter when all is neatly wrapped up). In the Up-Spin chapters, protagonist Jacob Kelley narrates his arrest and trial for the murder of Brian Vanderhall. Vanderhall was a brilliant but obnoxious physicist who continued to work at the (fictional) New Jersey Super-Collider after Kelley left to pursue an academic career. In the Down-Spin chapters, the Jacob Kelley of an alternate universe/timeline narrates his version of events. He frantically searches for the real killer and for his wife and children, w. Ian K. said The quantum physics of electrons doesn't work in the macro-world. There are features of quantum mechanics that seem like they couldn't possibly be true, yet in all experiments so far the theory has been solid. The strange and spooky nature of the quantum world has been fodder for a number of science fictions novels. A popular theme has been Hugh Everett's "many worlds interpretation" of quantum mechanics (which Ian McDonald used in his excellent book Brasyl). The idea behind the many worlds hypothesis is that with every chance event, all possibilities happen, but in separate universes. The separation of the many worlds gives them plausibility. Perhaps a "world walker" can walk between worlds,
SAWYER, Hugo Award-winning author of Quantum Night“David Walton takes a huge leap of imagination and spins an engaging, sometimes dizzying, web of ‘What if?’” —STANLEY SCHMIDT, author and long-time editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact“Superposition is a wild ride into the quantum world, a fabulous twist on the murder mystery. Walton's captivating writing will draw you in, the murder mystery will keep you reading, and you'll finish with a better understanding of quantum physics.” —WILLIAM HERTLING, author of Turing's Exception &l
Dick Award for his first novel, Terminal Mind. David Walton is a native of Pennsylvania and recipient of the 2008 Philip K. He is also the author of Quintessence, a science fantasy in which the Earth is really flat, and its sequel, Quintessence Sky. His latest books, SUPERPOSITION and SUPERSYMMETRY, are quantum physicsthrillers with the same mind-bending feel as films like Inception and Minority Report. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Q