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    <body><![CDATA[The rest of the universe has somehow quarantined humanity with a Dyson-sphere-like bubble around the solar system, all because the human brain has the ability to collapse all the possibilities (*eigenstates*) in each quantum event, thereby reducing the potential and actual diversity of the cosmos. E...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76026019">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this in college.  It's really quite a good mystery and primer on probability, wave functions, and Feinman's theory of sum-over histories.  It also makes one think out-of-the box on what life in other places could be like, even though you never see an alien or anything.  I'd like to see Ridley S...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65248362">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A pretty good book that got a little thick into its exploration of quantum mechanics. Sometimes the science got in the way of the fiction. Otherwise, rather enjoyable. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Though I only understood about half of this book, I really liked it. Especially the end part.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Really surprising]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am a big fan of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Greg Egan" title="Greg Egan">Greg Egan</a> but this book didn't do it for me. The story starts interesting and turns into a thrilling detective story. The quantum stuff is quite tough though and I am not so much interested in the whole concept. Who cares if there are multiple possible realities beside ours? Unless...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21041101">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was recommended to me by the late, great, House of Speculative Fiction here in Ottawa.<br/>I didn't much care for it. The &quot;smearing&quot; was just a little too out there for me. But I won't hold it against the good folk from House of SF, as they've turned me on to a few gems I wouldn't ot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14045802">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Good stuff. Fun with quantum mechanics.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Whoa!!]]></body>
    
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