288 pages
English language
Published Nov. 14, 1995
Quarantine is a 1992 hard science fiction novel by Greg Egan. Within a detective fiction framework, the novel explores the consequences of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics (or rather of its consciousness causes collapse variant), which Egan acknowledges was chosen more for its entertainment value than for its likelihood of being correct.
Wow. A lot to think about. I like smeared as opposite of collapsed. It's all very nagual vs tonal.
i burned through this pretty fast (for me) and had a fun time reading it, but i felt kind of bad for enjoying it, given that it's basically a trashy spy novel with super trite notions of quantum physics. if he'd've just used words other than "quantum mechanics", "wave collapse", etc. i probably would have felt better about it.
