The Quantum War

This is a review of the 3-book Quantum series, rather than of just this one final volume. And it is with a heavy heart that I...

No. No spoilers. This is an astonishingly good series, superbly written, with enough twists and turns to befuddle a Homo quantus (OK, tiny spoiler). I mean, any set of novels that can effortlessly meld quantum physics, theology, molecular biology and forced evolution ranks VERY high in my book - and this does all that. Did I say effortlessly?

Seriously, this is really, really well done: I am a molecular biologist with more than a passing interest in human evolution, who was Jesuit-educated and who has an amateur interest in physics and the quantum world, and this hit ALL the buttons. Con games too, as complicated as you might wish for; profane mermen who are star fighter pilots; time travel that is BELIEVABLE - it is all here, in these three volumes. The first drags a little - I read it twice at a year or so's interval before starting the second - but it sets the stage for the second, which leads you into a third volume that blows everything you read before into a fine atomic mist, pretty much like what happens to [detail redacted].

I honestly and sincerely liked these books. I think Derek Kunsken is a superbly talented writer. I DO hope this is not the end of the series, though...??