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In "Superposition," the first book of a high‑tech science‑fiction duology, physicist Jacob Kelley’s family is rocked when an old friend arrives armed and delirious about an alien quantum entity. The friend’s sudden death in a subterranean bunker places Kelley under suspicion. As the legal system isolates him, Jacob, aided by his daughter Alessandra, must untangle a web of misdirection that intertwines quantum theory, emerging technology, and a creature that defies conventional limits of space and matter. The story weaves a tense thriller where the fabric of reality itself is under threat.
First publish date: 2015
Genre: Science Fiction/Hard Science Fiction
Authors: David Walton
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