ZOOLOO’S BOOK TOURS | THE QUANTUM REVELATION | STUART HEINRICH

ABOUT THE BOOK

The world is on the brink of an apocalyptic climate crisis and quickly spiralling out of control into a dystopian nightmare. As everything collapses around them, two scientists struggle for relevance in their quest to build the world’s first practical quantum computer. They discover so much more. A mystery of physics that goes deeper than they could have ever imagined...

REVIEW

Set in a near future Earth where climate change is having a catastrophic effect, Skylar & Zara are two scientists who are working for a secret scientific laboratory to try to develop a quantum computer that can aid the fight against the eventual destruction of the earth. By a quirk of fate, the two scientists stumble upon a discovery that will change the world and lead it to a new stage of evolution. 

Now I must admit that I had absolutely no idea how I feel about this book. No, no, no! Don’t take that to be a bad thing because sometimes books aren’t a binary thing and don’t fit into the love them or loathe them category and cannot easily be pigeon holed Into these black and white feelings.

Masking itself as a techno thriller, The Quantum Revelations has a lot of things going on. On the one hand it’s a popcorn  sci fi thriller that reminded me of golden age science fiction films from the fifties such as The Day The Earth Stood Still, or The Day The Earth Caught Fire. On the other five hands it’s a discussion of quantum mechanics, climate change and the devastating effects it could have upon all aspects of the Earth, a conspiracy thriller, an exploration of religious doctrine, a dystopian nightmare and finally a treatise on the nature of consciousness (and some more stuff thrown in).

At times, the book blew my mind with the many concepts it discusses and explores. Yet, there were times when it went into an engaging techno thriller. These swings in tones could be a little jarring, but it did not hamper my enjoyment of the book. 

Moving on to the characters of the book, there were times that they felt that they were mainly vehicles for discussing the variety of topics that were brought up throughout the story. However, at other times, they did seem to come alive and became characters in a story rather than mouthpieces for the author’s myriad discussions. 

Plot wise, as I have said earlier, the book swings between a constructed and propulsive plot to investigating high concept ideas of science and religion. 

If you want a science fiction book that explores deep and philosophical aspects of science and religion, The Quantum Revelations is well worth a look!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Stuart Heinrich is a computer scientist with a passion for studying the fundamental nature of reality and physics. He is known for his unique theories on the Relativity of Existence (ROE), the Maximally Biophilic Principle (MBP) and Quantum Fluid Dynamics (QFD). He holds a PhD in computer science and has worked for over 10 years as a researcher at a national laboratory.