The world you can feel and touch is built of atoms, the smallest identifiable chunks of matter. Yet the heart of each atom is itself a whole new world, a world populated by quarks: indivisible, vanishingly small, the ultimate building blocks of our universe. This inner world where quarks reign is subject to new and unfamiliar rules, the rules of the quantum world. Colossal part...(展开全部)

安德鲁·华生是一位自由职业的科学记者和作家。他在曼彻斯特大学拿到理论物理博士学位之后，继续研究和讲授物理。他现在是食物研究所（Instituteof Food Research）的兼职科学家，同时也写作。他经常为《科学》杂志写文章。

The world you can feel and touch is built of atoms, the smallest identifiable chunks of matter. Yet the heart of each atom is itself a whole new world, a world populated by quarks: indivisible, vanishingly small, the ultimate building blocks of our universe. This inner world where quarks reign is subject to new and unfamiliar rules, the rules of the quantum world. Colossal part...(展开全部)

安德鲁·华生是一位自由职业的科学记者和作家。他在曼彻斯特大学拿到理论物理博士学位之后，继续研究和讲授物理。他现在是食物研究所（Instituteof Food Research）的兼职科学家，同时也写作。他经常为《科学》杂志写文章。

加拿大新生代科幻作家的代表人物，以理论扎实的硬科幻作品见长，获得过“阿西莫夫读者投票奖”。他的短篇和中篇作品均由《科幻世界·译文版》引入中国，如《洄游》《神祗窃贼》《刺之道》等，大获读者好评。《量子魔术师》是他的首部长篇小说，充分表现了这位作家一贯的风格：基于既有理论的奇特想象，展示出一幅阴森黯淡、甚至令人毛骨悚然的未来图景。

The Quantum Thief is a dazzling hard SF novel set in the solar system of the far future - a heist novel peopled by bizarre post-humans but powered by very human motives of betrayal, revenge and jealousy. It is a stunning debut. Jean le Flambeur is a post-human criminal, mind burglar, confidence artist and trickster. His origins are shrouded in mystery, but his exploits are know...(展开全部)

The Quantum Thief is a dazzling hard SF novel set in the solar system of the far future - a heist novel peopled by bizarre post-humans but powered by very human motives of betrayal, revenge and jealousy. It is a stunning debut. Jean le Flambeur is a post-human criminal, mind burglar, confidence artist and trickster. His origins are shrouded in mystery, but his exploits are know...(展开全部)

Jean le Flambeur is a post-human criminal, mind burglar, confidence artist and trickster. His origins are shrouded in mystery, but his exploits are known throughout the Heterarchy - from breaking into the vast Zeusbrains of the Inner System to steal their thoughts, to stealing rare Earth antiques from the aristocrats of the Moving Cities of Mars. Except that Jean made one mista...(展开全部)

加拿大新生代科幻作家的代表人物，以理论扎实的硬科幻作品见长，获得过“阿西莫夫读者投票奖”。他的短篇和中篇作品均由《科幻世界·译文版》引入中国，如《洄游》《神祗窃贼》《刺之道》等，大获读者好评。《量子魔术师》是他的首部长篇小说，充分表现了这位作家一贯的风格：基于既有理论的奇特想象，展示出一幅阴森黯淡、甚至令人毛骨悚然的未来图景。

M·盖尔曼，美国天才物理学家，夸克的发现者。他因对“基本粒子分类及其相互作用方南的贡献和发现”而荣获1969年诺贝尔物理学奖。