Runo Knows...The Quantum Connection
The Quantum Connection is a sequel to Warp Speed.
It's set a few years afterwards. This time, instead of following one of the scientists involved, it follows (in first person) a young man whose entire family was killed in the "meteors" that were actually World War Three. Despite his bouts of chronic depression, he finds employment with a government agency, just to lose his clearance thanks to the fact that there are no records of his life before the meteors.
One of the things I did like about the book through this part was how Dr. Taylor wrote his emotional roller coaster of depression. As someone who has battled depression for years, I knew a lot of the feelings the main character had. It didn't feel cheap or cheesy to me.
After a long road trip following a really depressing event, the main character (can you tell I've forgotten his name?) is abducted by aliens. However, he manages to break free, save the woman next in line to be dissambled by the aliens and take over the ship. And from there it goes WAY overboard.
There's all kinds of "let's take this crazy idea to its limits", involvement in a thousands of years old war between other alien races, racing around the galaxies, small groups of heavily armed humans taking on thousands and later hundreds of thousands of aliens, warp field armor, people trapped in singularities...it just goes nuts.
If you could almost say that Warp Speed was hard sci-fi this throws that into the bin and goes WAY into the crazy space opera epic side of a sort not seen in probably years.
It's a fun tale (if occasionally, like its predecessor, heavily laden down in physics) if kind of kooky and weird and crazy. Don't go into it expecting hard character development and philosophy - instead, think almost of 1950s, square jawed American sci-fi heroes going nuts, and have fun with it.
It's set a few years afterwards. This time, instead of following one of the scientists involved, it follows (in first person) a young man whose entire family was killed in the "meteors" that were actually World War Three. Despite his bouts of chronic depression, he finds employment with a government agency, just to lose his clearance thanks to the fact that there are no records of his life before the meteors.
One of the things I did like about the book through this part was how Dr. Taylor wrote his emotional roller coaster of depression. As someone who has battled depression for years, I knew a lot of the feelings the main character had. It didn't feel cheap or cheesy to me.
After a long road trip following a really depressing event, the main character (can you tell I've forgotten his name?) is abducted by aliens. However, he manages to break free, save the woman next in line to be dissambled by the aliens and take over the ship. And from there it goes WAY overboard.
There's all kinds of "let's take this crazy idea to its limits", involvement in a thousands of years old war between other alien races, racing around the galaxies, small groups of heavily armed humans taking on thousands and later hundreds of thousands of aliens, warp field armor, people trapped in singularities...it just goes nuts.
If you could almost say that Warp Speed was hard sci-fi this throws that into the bin and goes WAY into the crazy space opera epic side of a sort not seen in probably years.
It's a fun tale (if occasionally, like its predecessor, heavily laden down in physics) if kind of kooky and weird and crazy. Don't go into it expecting hard character development and philosophy - instead, think almost of 1950s, square jawed American sci-fi heroes going nuts, and have fun with it.