Quantum Logic Universe | Queen of Angels Series #1-4 by Greg Bear
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Overview: Gregory Dale "Greg" Bear (born August 20, 1951) is an American writer best known for science fiction. Bear is often classified as a hard science fiction author, based on the scientific details in his work. His work has covered themes of galactic conflict (Forge of God books), artificial universes (The Way series), consciousness and cultural practices (Queen of Angels), and accelerated evolution (Blood Music, Darwin’s Radio, and Darwin’s Children).
While most of Bear’s work is science fiction, he has written in other fiction genres. Examples include Songs of Earth and Power (fantasy) and Psychlone (horror). Bear has described his Dead Lines, which straddles the line between science fiction and fantasy, as a "high-tech ghost story". He has received many accolades, including five Nebula Awards and two Hugo Awards.
Genre: Science Fiction
Note: The following instalments can be read independently of each other, as they are not strictly a series per se, though they share the same universe.
1. Queen of Angels [1990] | Retail (.MOBI)
The motivation of the mass-murderer–in this case a noted poet–becomes the subject of investigation by an ambitious policewoman, a renegade psychologist, and the murderer’s closest friend. Twenty-first century Los Angeles provides the surrealistic setting for a remarkable exploration of human guilt and fears in the latest novel by the author of Blood Music and Eternity. Bear’s blending of high-tech gloss with penetrating insights into human nature results in a complex and challenging speculative vision of the "country of the mind."
2. Heads (Novella) [1990] | Not Retail (.ePUB, .AZW3)
Hard-science-fiction master Bear’s gem of a novella shines with provocative scientific speculation, well-drawn characters and powerful prose. Mickey Sandoval is a minor administrator in his family’s moon-based corporation, supervising accounts on his brother-in-law William’s project–an attempt to reach absolute zero, 0 on the Kelvin scale. His mostly routine job becomes rapidly complicated when his sister Rho, William’s wife, brings a load of 410 cryogenically frozen heads back with her from earth. Mickey finds her interest in tapping the memories of the long-dead bizarre yet harmless, but suddenly the other industrial families on the moon grow hostile to the project, led by Council President Fiona Task-Felder, a member of the cult of Logology (which bears an unmistakable resemblance to a certain contemporary pseudo-religious movement). Mickey is plunged into high-level political conflicts he cannot handle, stumbling from error to error before Rho’s examination of the heads unveils a monumental secret–and explains the Logologists’ stake in her project. Readers hungry for the intellectual thrills of traditional science fiction with the literary merits of the best of the genre need look no further.
3. Moving Mars [1993] | Retail (.MOBI)
Moving Mars is a story of human courage and love set within the greater saga of a planetary liberation movement. Mars is a colonial world, governed by corporate interests on Earth. The citizens of Mars are hardworking, but held back by their lack of access to the best education, and the desire of the Earthly powers to keep the best new inventions for themselves. The young Martians — the second and third generations born on Mars — have little loyalty to Earth, and a strong belief that their planet can be independent. The revolution begins slowly, but will grow in power over decades of political struggle until it becomes irresistible.
Told through the eyes of an extraordinary character, Casseia Majumdar, a daughter of one of Mars’ oldest, most conservative Binding Multiples, Moving Mars is Greg Bear’s brilliant conception of the human colonization of the red planet, with lovingly painted details and a grand historical sweep, embellishing an audacious scientific speculation.
4. Slant [1997] | Retail (.ePUB)
This is the sequel to Greg Bear’s popular Queen of Angels, and, like most of this award-winning author’s works, it’s a stunner. Bear is right at home with the computer and nano technologies that underlie his near-future society. In the second half of the twenty-first century, nanotechnology has transformed every aspect of society. Humans can now change their abilities, their appearance, their very bodies on microscopic level. Advanced psychotherapy seems to have wiped away violence and illness. The world is sane and in balance.
However, that balance teeters with the grisly murder of two prostitutes and a series of suicides. Soon, public defender Mary Cho’s investigation finds a dark danger lurking in the recesses of the “dataflow.” Entertainment, virtual pornography, neo-Luddite separatists, an unknown artificial intelligence—everything seems to be intertwined in a vast conspiracy. As technology fails so too does the society perched high atop it. Perfection is a high pedestal from which to fall
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Two further novels were written within the shared Quantum Logic Universe: the Quantico duology (pub. 2005 & 2007), which take place prior to Queen of Angels. They can be found here: viewtopic.php?f=1293&t=201623&hilit=greg+bear
