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In the late 21st century, bioengineering has meant that people can modify their minds in any way they wish - an era also shaped by information systems so vast that security, in any form, can be easily breached.
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Greg Egan, an Australian, is a master of intellectual dazzle who can still amaze hard-SF readers who know all the tricks and demand to be shown a new one. Quarantine (1992) was his first novel, though his short stories in Britain's SF magazine Interzone had already caused a stir. The quarantine of the title is a gigantic space-time bubble placed around Earth's orbit by unknown hands in 2034, making the stars and outer planets invisible and unreachable. Why? Investigating a pointless kidnapping, a resourceful cyber sleuth with a head full of computer add-ons stumbles on--and is forcibly recruited into--a technological conspiracy whose researches hint at the reason for the Bubble. It's there to protect the universe, or rather an infinite multiplicity of universes, from the destructive effects of human minds. In a ferociously intellectual argument Egan tackles the central weirdness of Quantum Mechanics, which is both the most successful and worryingly inexplicable theory of modern physics. Suppose it were possible for a thinking being to be consciously "smeared out" over the countless simultaneous probability states that according to QM are "collapsed" into a single reality when observed or measured? This happens to our hero, and the results are very strange indeed. Dizzying concepts and hardware overshadow the slightly flat characters, but it's a terrifically impressive book. - -David Langford
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- PublisherOrbit
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0712653473
- ISBN 13 9780712653473
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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Book Description Octavo, boards. First edition. QUARANTINE "effectively, and literally, encapsulates a near-future private-eye plot, of the sort familiar to readers of cyberpunk, within a solar system now enclosed by a vast enigmatic bubble that hides the stars. The unfoldings of the plot, and of its implications about human identity in a world (or complex of parallel worlds) controllable at the quantum level through computer-augmented brain functions, is extremely intricate." - John Clute and others, SFE (online). The author's first SF novel. Pulpy text paper just a bit tanned, a fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#156995). Seller Inventory # 156995
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