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The Quantum Realm #2
Inheritance
Ten years after the Purge, the Northern Alliance is at war on multiple fronts. Bio-engineered soldiers locate and destroy the last of the Quants while Kazumi's innovations, as CEO of Mashimoto, keep Greater China one step ahead in their Cold War.
Mackenzie and Chris plan to escape to the Moon, but Sophie would rather continue her relatively normal life as a climate academic. Meanwhile, Nicky and Francois struggle to continue their humanitarian efforts in war-torn South America.
One of Sophie's Scania mind-reading sessions for the Northern Alliance leads to a disturbing discovery with global consequences. Her violent lucid dreams in the Quantum Realm are getting worse, too.
Mackenzie and Chris plan to escape to the Moon, but Sophie would rather continue her relatively normal life as a climate academic. Meanwhile, Nicky and Francois struggle to continue their humanitarian efforts in war-torn South America.
One of Sophie's Scania mind-reading sessions for the Northern Alliance leads to a disturbing discovery with global consequences. Her violent lucid dreams in the Quantum Realm are getting worse, too.
- GenresScience Fiction
278 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 16, 2024
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Robert P. Edwards
4 books7 followersRobert began his literary journey after a thirty-year career in IT. He returned to the UK after twenty-six years in Australia, and can be found in the Cotswolds with his partner and spaniel. A climate change believer, he writes speculative science fiction novels that balance hard science with deeply human stories, leaving you questioning what it means to be human in the era of artificial intelligence.
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January 17, 2026
Inheritance picks up a decade after “Unnatural Selection”, as Sophie and her allies grapple with the explosive revelation that human evolution itself has been hijacked. What begins as damage control quickly escalates into a globe-spanning race to stop billionaire technocrats and semi-autonomous machines from deciding who gets to inherit the future of the species.
Leaning harder into scale and momentum, Robert P. Edwards widens the lens from conspiracy thriller to full-on science fiction epic. Systems fail, alliances fracture, and the Quants – once obedient human creations – begin to look unsettlingly self-directed. Sophie's evolution into a reluctant leader is convincingly portrayed, while Kazumi’s behind-the-scenes scheming injects welcome energy into the narrative. Again, the book occasionally pauses for big-idea explanations, but the stakes are so clearly drawn and the premise so chillingly plausible that the propulsion rarely falters. “Inheritance” is smart, ambitious, and unapologetically geeky in its fascination with technology and consequence. In the Quantum Realm Trilogy, this is a worthy, crowd-pleasing middle chapter that raises the philosophical and narrative stakes.
Leaning harder into scale and momentum, Robert P. Edwards widens the lens from conspiracy thriller to full-on science fiction epic. Systems fail, alliances fracture, and the Quants – once obedient human creations – begin to look unsettlingly self-directed. Sophie's evolution into a reluctant leader is convincingly portrayed, while Kazumi’s behind-the-scenes scheming injects welcome energy into the narrative. Again, the book occasionally pauses for big-idea explanations, but the stakes are so clearly drawn and the premise so chillingly plausible that the propulsion rarely falters. “Inheritance” is smart, ambitious, and unapologetically geeky in its fascination with technology and consequence. In the Quantum Realm Trilogy, this is a worthy, crowd-pleasing middle chapter that raises the philosophical and narrative stakes.
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