Quantum Night

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sawyer, Robert J.

Quantum night / Robert J. Sawyer.

pages ; cm

ISBN 978-0-425-25683-1 (hardcover)

1. Psychologists—Fiction. 2. Violence—Psychological aspects—Fiction. 3. Quantum theory—Fiction. I. Title.

PR9199.3.S2533Q36 2016

813’.54—dc23

2015028314

FIRST EDITION: March 2016

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