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"Belisarius is a *Homo quantus*, 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 the galaxy's greatest con man and thief."
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Contemporary, classical in form, epic and grave.
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- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Derek Künsken
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 241
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing, Solaris
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781781085707
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“Belisarius Arjona was perhaps the only con man who drew parallels between his confidence schemes and the quantum world.”
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