âWalter Jon Williams really knows how to play power chords in the âkey of wonderâ and in Implied Spaces heâs gone to town on the guitar solo!â
--Charles Stross
âImplied Spaces pioneers a new genre of SF--- the âSword and Singularityâ novel. Williams combines fantasy tropes believably with nanotech, bleeding-edge infotech speculation, classic smashing-planets space opera, and intriguingly human, or possibly post-human characters along with a fast-moving plot and a quirky sense of humor in a melance thatâs cosmological, theological, ontological, comic, and thoroughly entertaining.â
---S.M. Stirling
The mysterious swordsman Aristide wanders the multiverse with his talking cat Bitsy, both of them in search of the âimplied spaces,â the accidents of architecture in a world that is itself artificial and created by a supreme intelligence.
While exploring the pre-technological world of Midgarth, Aristide discovers a plot that threatens to shake the multiverse to its foundations, a sinister enemy intent on laying all humanity in his thrall. Aristide must surmount war, plague, death, the loss of love, and cosmic havoc in order to finally confront the enemy, whose secret brings all reality into questions . . .
âWalter Jon Williams really knows how to play power chords in the âkey of wonderâ and in Implied Spaces heâs gone to town on the guitar solo!â
--Charles Stross
âImplied Spaces pioneers a new genre of SF--- the âSword and Singularityâ novel. Williams combines fantasy tropes believably with nanotech, bleeding-edge infotech speculation, classic smashing-planets space opera, and intriguingly human, or possibly post-human characters along with a fast-moving plot and a quirky sense of humor in a melance thatâs cosmological, theological, ontological, comic, and thoroughly entertaining.â
---S.M. Stirling
The mysterious swordsman Aristide wanders the multiverse with his talking cat Bitsy, both of them in search of the âimplied spaces,â the accidents of architecture in a world that is itself artificial and created by a supreme intelligence.
While exploring the pre-technological world of Midgarth, Aristide discovers a plot that threatens to shake the multiverse to its foundations, a sinister enemy intent on laying all humanity in his thrall. Aristide must surmount war, plague, death, the loss of love, and cosmic havoc in order to finally confront the enemy, whose secret brings all reality into questions . . .