By Robert A. Metzger
Robert Metzger writes vintage tough SF yet he does so in a manner that emphasizes pleasure and event and which exhibits the technology in a manner that makes it available and interesting. In PICOVERSE, a crew of physicists in 2007 is making an attempt to advance fusion strength through a brand new improvement in plasma physics, a Sonomak, yet by accident stumbles on a mode to create new, smaller-than-usual universes, which they name picoverses. those mirror every little thing in our universe yet on a smaller scale.
A disastrous try out of the Sonomak computing device shakes issues up and a brand new undertaking director, formerly unknown to the gang, is appointed. Alexandra has her personal mystery priorities and considered one of them is to flee from her superiors into one of many picoverses. to do that, she wishes the researchers to execute her plan. regrettably, issues move amiss and the staff reveals itself caught in a picoverse duplicating Twenties Earth, yet with its personal model of a Sonomak, vacuum tubes and all. one of the neighborhood group are Werner Heisenberg and Albert Einstein.
As the speed of the tale speeds up, the unique crew races from one picoverse to a different, attempting to go back to their domestic base and thwart Alexandra’s plans. In a conflict of trade realities, the destiny of Earth and the complete universe hangs within the stability. Cosmic rabbits must be pulled from trade universe hats sooner than this story involves a satisfying--and scientifically rigorous--end.
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At the prospect of you lurking in the shadows, waiting to reveal yourself,’ Cestus returned sternly and stepped forward. He managed to maintain the chastening expression for only a moment before he smiled broadly and clapped Antiges on the shoulder. ‘Well met, brother,’ Cestus said, clasping Antiges’s forearm firmly. ‘Well met,’ Antiges replied, returning the greeting. ‘I have come to take you away from here, brother-captain,’ he added. ’ IT WAS A short journey from the sanctum of Communion Temple Omega to the dock where the rest of Cestus’s and Antiges’s battle-brothers awaited them.
Even without being compared to the tall slab of muscle that was an Astartes, they were bent-backed and diminutive. Hektor ignored their obsequiousness as he released the straps affixing the combat shield to his arm and handed it over along with his short-blade to the acolytes. He looked at the ground as his attendants retreated silently into the shadow’s penumbra at the edge of the room. An engraved ‘U’ was carved into the centre of the chamber, chased in silver on a circular field of blue. Hektor stood in the middle of it, in exactly the position that he had started.
Turning a corner, at the lead of the two Astartes, Cestus was hit square in the chest. The impact, though surprising, moved the Astartes not at all. He stared down at what had struck him. Quivering amidst a bundle of tangled robes, a litho-slate clasped reassuringly in his hands, was a scholarly-looking human. ’ Antiges demanded at once. The pale scholar cowered beneath the towering Astartes, shrinking before his obvious power. He was sweating profusely, and used the sleeve of his robe to wipe his head before casting a glance back in the direction he had come from in spite of the monolithic warriors in front of him.
