The Quantum Magician (1) (The Quantum Evolution)

The Quantum Magician (1) (The Quantum Evolution)

The breathtaking debut from acclaimed short story writer Derek Künsken.<BR><BR>THE ULTIMATE HEIST<BR> <BR> Belisarius is a <I>Homo quantus</I>, engineered with impossible insight. But his gift is also a curse—an uncontrollable, even suicidal drive to know, to understand. Genetically flawed, he leaves his people to find a different life, and ends up becoming<BR> the galaxy’s greatest con man and thief. <BR> <BR> But the jobs are getting too easy and his extraordinary brain is chafing at the neglect. When a client offers him untold wealth to move a squadron of secret warships across an enemy wormhole, Belisarius jumps at it. Now he must embrace his true nature to pull off the job, alongside a crew of extraordinary men and women.<BR> <BR> If he succeeds, he could trigger an interstellar war… or the next step in human evolution.