* WINNER OF THE PRIX AURORA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL ** NOMINATED FOR THE BSFA, LOCUS, AND NEBULA AWARDS *'Wonderfully ingenious' - LOCUS'Boldly ambitious' - SFX MAGAZINE'Künsken's vivid worldbuilding is a knockout' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'A caper worthy of Jean-Pierre Melville' - B&N SCIFI AND FANTASY BLOGTHE ULTIMATE HEISTBelisarius is a Homo quantus, engineered with impossible insight. But his gift is also a curse - an uncontrollable, even suicidal drive to know, to understand. Genetically flawed, he leaves his people to find a different life, and ends up becoming the galaxy's greatest con man and thief. But the jobs are getting too easy and his extraordinary brain is chafing at the neglect.When a client offers him untold wealth to move a squadron of secret warships across an enemy wormhole, Belisarius jumps at it. Now he must embrace his true nature to pull off the job, alongside a crew of extraordinary men and women. If he succeeds, he could trigger an interstellar war... or the next step in human evolution.

* NOMINATED FOR THE PRIX AURORA *'Cool pseudo-scientific speculation' - LOCUS'Imaginative, full of cool quantum stuff and a lot of fun' - CURIOUS SFF READER'A nail-biting plot' - STRANGE ALLIANCES'A story that grabs hold and won't let go' - SFANDF REVIEWSTHE ULTIMATE CHASEDays ago, Belisarius pulled off the most audacious con job in history. He's rich, he's back with the love of his life, and he has the Time Gates, the most valuable things in existence. Nothing could spoil this... except the utter destruction of his people and their world.To save them, he has to make a new deal with the boss he just double-crossed, travel back in time and work his quantum magic once again. If he can avoid detection, dodge paradox and stay ahead of the eerie, relentless Scarecrow, he might just get back to his own time alive.

* NOMINATED FOR THE PRIX AURORA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL * 'Delightfully brutal portrayal of the reality of war' - AMAZING STORIES'Astonishingly good' - WORLDS WITHOUT END'Compelling, convincing and tightly written' - SFANDF REVIEWS'One of the best [series] of this century' - SCIFI MINDA WAR IN THE STARSThe war rages onward and the Union's premier fighter pilots, the Homo eridanus, start encountering deadly resistance from strange pilots on the Congregate side. Among wreckage, they find that new Congregate pilots are, in fact, Homo quantus, with strange wiring and AI connections. At the same time, the Puppets come to the Union with offers of an alliance for a dangerous price: the rescue of the geneticist Antonio Del Casal who is a captive on Venus, with over a hundred Homo quantus.Only one person might be able to break through the Congregate defences at Venus, and he's a con man.

* WINNER OF THE PRIX AURORA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL ** NOMINATED FOR THE BSFA, LOCUS, AND NEBULA AWARDS *'Wonderfully ingenious' - LOCUS'Boldly ambitious' - SFX MAGAZINE'Künsken's vivid worldbuilding is a knockout' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'A caper worthy of Jean-Pierre Melville' - B&N SCIFI AND FANTASY BLOGTHE ULTIMATE HEISTBelisarius is a Homo quantus, engineered with impossible insight. But his gift is also a curse - an uncontrollable, even suicidal drive to know, to understand. Genetically flawed, he leaves his people to find a different life, and ends up becoming the galaxy's greatest con man and thief. But the jobs are getting too easy and his extraordinary brain is chafing at the neglect.When a client offers him untold wealth to move a squadron of secret warships across an enemy wormhole, Belisarius jumps at it. Now he must embrace his true nature to pull off the job, alongside a crew of extraordinary men and women. If he succeeds, he could trigger an interstellar war... or the next step in human evolution.

* NOMINATED FOR THE PRIX AURORA *'Cool pseudo-scientific speculation' - LOCUS'Imaginative, full of cool quantum stuff and a lot of fun' - CURIOUS SFF READER'A nail-biting plot' - STRANGE ALLIANCES'A story that grabs hold and won't let go' - SFANDF REVIEWSTHE ULTIMATE CHASEDays ago, Belisarius pulled off the most audacious con job in history. He's rich, he's back with the love of his life, and he has the Time Gates, the most valuable things in existence. Nothing could spoil this... except the utter destruction of his people and their world.To save them, he has to make a new deal with the boss he just double-crossed, travel back in time and work his quantum magic once again. If he can avoid detection, dodge paradox and stay ahead of the eerie, relentless Scarecrow, he might just get back to his own time alive.

* NOMINATED FOR THE PRIX AURORA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL * 'Delightfully brutal portrayal of the reality of war' - AMAZING STORIES'Astonishingly good' - WORLDS WITHOUT END'Compelling, convincing and tightly written' - SFANDF REVIEWS'One of the best [series] of this century' - SCIFI MINDA WAR IN THE STARSThe war rages onward and the Union's premier fighter pilots, the Homo eridanus, start encountering deadly resistance from strange pilots on the Congregate side. Among wreckage, they find that new Congregate pilots are, in fact, Homo quantus, with strange wiring and AI connections. At the same time, the Puppets come to the Union with offers of an alliance for a dangerous price: the rescue of the geneticist Antonio Del Casal who is a captive on Venus, with over a hundred Homo quantus.Only one person might be able to break through the Congregate defences at Venus, and he's a con man.