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Detecting strange patterns of interference in a lab experiment, Gordon Bernstein, an assistant researcher at a California university, investigates and begins to uncover something that will change his life forever. Reprint. Nebula Award winner.

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  • “Mr. Cooper, consider two electrons in a one-dimensional box. Can you write down for us the wave function for this state?”
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  • “The thesis is an argument, let us remember, not a stack of pages”
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Remember to smile a lot, John Renfrew thought moodily.

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This is book 27 of 70 in Science Fiction Masterworks. (edition-based publisher list)

Preceded by Ubik, and followed by More Than Human.

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  1. Gregory Benford (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1980
ISBN: 0-671-25327-1
Page Count: 412

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