Keeping It Real
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780575078628 (0575078626)
Publish date: May 18th 2006
Publisher: Gollancz
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Series: Quantum Gravity (#1)
A real oddball of a novel, which is mostly good, but occasionally puzzling. Background is thus: a quantum bomb (babble babble something about CERN technobabble) was set off in the early aughts, reordering history and setting Earth in touch with other realms, stuff like where elves and demons and the...
Spoiler Rating: High Hello again, Katie! At last, your long-awaited letter. I write to you about a sci fi/fantasy thing (I struggled to find a word to describe it; "thing" does well enough, I guess) by Justina Robson: Keeping It Real. As you're aware, I'm not really a science fiction reader (u...
I don't usually add a synopsis on my reviews here but I can't do the plot justice so I'll add this to do it for me. The Quantum Bomb of 2015 changed everything. The fabric that kept the universe's different dimensions apart was torn and now, six years later, the people of earth exist in uneasy co...
Lila Black has had an interesting history with Elves. Magic, elemental energy, demons and technology exist side-by-side in this alternative version of our world. A little Shadowrunish, or maybe TORG, there was a Quantum Bom and the spaces between the different dimensions were pulled together, or r...
A rarity in that it combines both high technology and high magic.
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