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Fascinating Philosophy and Science in an OK Story

The Quantum Revelations by Stuart Heinrich

September 9, 2025 by Halbs 1 Comment

I’m immensely appreciative of Stuart Heinrich for undertaking quite a project – sharing complex and niche scientific ideas such as physical relativism and quantum cosmology with a general audience of sci-fi/speculative fiction readers in novel form. Think The Celestine Prophecy, but for science! Heinrich has previously published non-fiction articles on similar topics, and The Quantum Revelations is his attempt to integrate these areas of study into fiction. The plot is fun. In the near future, climate change rapidly accelerates past the point of no return. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Cosmology, Dystopian, Philosophy of Science, Quantum Physics, Stuart Heinrich

Halbs's CBR17 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, Cosmology, Dystopian, Philosophy of Science, Quantum Physics, Stuart Heinrich ·
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Genius? A$$? Or Both?

Hawking by Jim Ottaviani

February 21, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Stephen Hawking was a complicated man. Selfish, self-centered, intelligent, willing to work with others, wanted self-credit, chose romantic partners that seemed distant, and believed his own press as he made up most of it. You never know what will happen next in the pages of this graphic novel by Jim Ottaviani. Aptly named, Hawking¸ Ottaviani starts the story (told from the point of view of Hawking himself) from about age elven to around the eve of his death. Ottaviani makes it so you think you’ve […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Religion, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: astrophysics, Cosmology, Jim Ottaviani, physics, Science & Technology, Space Science, stephen hawking

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:73 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Religion, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: astrophysics, Cosmology, Jim Ottaviani, physics, Science & Technology, Space Science, stephen hawking ·
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