Derek Künsken

“Künsken’s vivid worldbuilding is a knockout...This is a must-read.” –Publishers Weekly starred review "Awesomely intersectional and packed full of French swear words, The House of Styx is a great scientific adventure!" -- Apple Books Review Discover the beginnings of the Quantum Evolution with The House of Styx, the start of a groundbreaking new series set 250 years before The Quantum Magician. Life can exist anywhere. And anywhere there is life, there is home. In the swirling clouds of Venus, the families of la colonie live on floating plant-like trawlers, salvaging what they can in the fierce acid rain and crackling storms. Outside is dangerous, but humankind's hold on the planet is fragile and they spend most of their days simply surviving. But Venus carries its own secrets, too. In the depths, there is a wind that shouldn't exist. And the House of Styx wants to harness it. "Künsken has, to my mind, already established a place as one of the best pure ‘‘hard science’’ writers of the current generation, and this book is further evidence of that.” -- Rich Horton, Locus Magazine “A boldly ambitious debut.” -- SFX Magazine “An audacious con job, scintillating future technology, and meditations on the nature of fractured humanity.” -- Yoon Ha Lee “Künsken has a wonderfully ingenious imagination.” -- Adam Roberts, Locus “Technology changes us—even our bodies—in fundamental ways, and Kunsken handles this wonderfully.” -- Cixin Liu “I have no problems raving about this book. A truly wild backdrop of space-opera with wormholes, big space-fleet conflict and empires.... What could go wrong?” -- Brad K. Horner “This brainy sci-fi heist novel uses mathematics like magic to pull you through a caper worthy of Jean-Pierre Melville.” -- The B&N SciFi and Fantasy Blog “The Quantum Magician is the type of book you go back to the beginning and read again once you know how everything pans out and have those ‘why didn’t I see that the first time?’ moments.” -- Strange Alliances “A delightfully engaging heist story.” -- Caroline Mersey, Science Fiction Book Club “The Quantum Magician is a space adventure built on the scaffolding of a classic con job movie (think The Italian Job or Ocean’s Eleven). It hits all the right beats at the right time, and part of the fun in reading it is wondering: what will go wrong? Who will betray who? What will be the reversals? When done well, as in the case of The Quantum Magician, it’s a delight to read.” -- The Ottawa Review of Books “The Quantum Magician feels like what would happen if Locke Lamora landed in Bank’s Culture, and if Locke had a lot to say about depraved humans. And I do love me a con artist story! Also? The writing is brilliant, the pacing is damn near perfect, the dialog is fun and snarky, the characters are great, I couldn’t put this book down!” -- The Little Red Reviewer “Con games and heists are always hard to write – one like this, which comes out pitch perfect, wrapped in a nuanced and striking sci-fi narrative is, to say the least, a rarity.” -- SF and F Reviews “The Quantum Magician is a fabulous debut, it would make the most fantastic movie. It has everything and more, it seriously needs to be read by way more people. Highly, highly recommended.” -- The Curious SFF Reader “The House Of Styx is a stunning new sci-fi family drama that admirably shoulders the burden of two heavy genres and distills them into an exhilarating and heart-breaking journey of discovery.” -- SciFiNow, 5 star review "Sometimes nail-biting and always well-paced, The House of Styx is high concept sci-fi that puts characters first—and succeeds by doing so." -- Aurealis

The first in a ground breaking new science fiction series from the best-selling author of The Quantum Magician

The House of Styx

The Quantum Magician

David Brin

John Scalzi

Gareth L. Powell

Julie E. Czerneda

David Weber

Seanan McGuire

Joe Haldeman

Christopher Ruocchio

Fonda Lee

Thoraiya Dyer

Tanya Huff

John C. Wright

Shelley Adina

D. J. Butler

L.E. Modesitt, Jr.

Dr. Charles E. Gannon

Within these pages lie eighteen stories, from eighteen worlds shaped by some of today’s best writers of science fiction and fantasy, all guests on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers during its first year. Some are international bestsellers. Among them are winners and nominees for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Aurora, Sunburst, Aurealis, Ditmar, British Science Fiction Association, and Dragon Awards. Some have been writing for decades, others are at the beginning of their careers. All have honed their craft to razor-sharpness. A teenage girl finds something strange in the middle of the Canadian prairie. An exobiologist tries to liberate a giant alien enslaved on its homeworld by humans. The music of the spheres becomes literal for an Earth ship far from home. A superhero league interviews for new members. Strangers share a drink on a world where giant starships fall. Two boys, one a werewolf, one a mage, get more than they bargained for when they volunteer to fight an evil Empire. A man with amnesia accepts a most unusual offer. A young woman finds unexpected allies as she tries to win a flying-machine race in steampunk London . . . Ranging from boisterous to bleak, from humorous to harrowing, from action-filled to quiet and meditative; taking place in alternate pasts, the present day, the far, far future, and times that never were; set on Earth, in the distant reaches of space, in fantasy worlds, and in metaphysical realms, each of these stories is as unique as its creator. And yet, they all showcase one thing: the irrepressible need of human beings to create, to imagine, to tell stories. To shape worlds.

Science fiction & fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers

Shapers of Worlds

The eagerly awaited third volume in the number one bestselling Quantum Evolution series. An all-new, ground-breaking, action-packed new science fiction adventure set in the universe of The Quantum Magician and The Quantum Garden. The Union-Congregate war rages onward and the Union’s premier fighter pilots, the Homo Eridanus, start encountering deadly resistance from strange pilots on the Congregate side. Among wreckage, they find that new Congregate pilots aren’t human, but Homo quantus, with strange wiring and AI connections. At the same time, the Puppets come to the Union with offers of an alliance for a dangerous price: the rescue of the geneticist Antonio Del Casal who is a captive at Venus, with over a hundred Homo quantus. The only one who might be able to break through the Congregate defences at Venus is a con man who has given up his profession.

The Quantum War

Major Chenesai Okonkwo is an Auditor for the Sub-Saharan Union. Her mission: to find out if the Sixth Expeditionary Force’s newly discovered time gate has been compromised. Is the Union’s revolutionary discovery already doomed, eleven years in the future?

Pollen From A Future Harvest

« La technologie est capable de nous changer de façon fondamentale, jusque dans notre chair, et Derek Künsken témoigne de cette révolution avec un talent fou. » Liu Cixin, lauréat du Prix Hugo et auteur du Problème à trois corps. Belisarius Arjona, le magicien quantique, a réalisé la plus audacieuse escroquerie de tous les temps. Il est riche, son grand amour partage de nouveau sa vie, et surtout, il a mis la main sur la plus précieuse des technologies jamais mises au point. A priori, rien ne peut gâcher ce tableau... sauf la destruction totale de ses pairs, les Hommes Quantiques, et du monde sur lequel ils vivaient. Pour les sauver, tous sans exception, Belisarius va devoir conclure un marché avec les puissances qu'il vient tout juste d'escroquer, manipuler le temps et échapper à l'implacable Épouvantail lancé à ses trousses.

Cycle de L'évolution quantique - tome 2\n

Le Jardin quantique

« La technologie est capable de nous changer de façon fondamentale, jusque dans nos corps, et Derek Künsken témoigne de cette révolution avec un talent fou. » Liu Cixin, lauréat du Prix Hugo et auteur du Problème à trois corps. Belisarius Arjona est un homme quantique. Ses pairs ont été créés pour pousser les capacités cognitives de l'humain à un niveau extrême. En fugue quantique, Belisarius est capable de transformer la probabilité en réalité. Toujours sur le fil, de par sa nature-même, il a trouvé un équilibre précaire en tant qu'escroc. Et quand un client lui offre une immense richesse pour déplacer une flotte de vaisseaux de guerre à travers un trou de ver ennemi, Belisarius accepte la mission et se met en quête d'un équipage composé de post-humains comme lui, mais aussi d'une Intelligence Artificielle surpuissante répondant au doux nom de saint Mathieu. Réussiront-ils leur mission, au risque de déclencher une guerre interstellaire ? Derek Künsken est l'étoile montante de la science-fiction canadienne. Le Magicien quantique, son premier roman, a été comparé à Ocean's Eleven et a connu un succès considérable aux Etats-Unis, au Canada et... en Chine. Roman traduit de l'anglais (Canada) par Gilles Goullet Illustration de couverture : Manchu

Le Magicien quantique

Derek Künsken

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