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In the Stone Age Arctic, Osnat, a brilliant, pregnant, quantum scientist knows where she is but she doesn’t know when. A mysterious technology has exiled her and her people across time to a frigid wasteland above the northern radiation belts. She and her husband Simon search for food, warmth, for any kind of help. They find instead a band of indigenous Tunniq who attack, rather than assist. Though she craves vengeance, Osnat realizes that the murderous savages are the help her people need to survive. The conflict between need and ideals tears at her as she learns their ways. Must Osnat become a brutal savage in order to save her people?
Quantum Cannibals is an epic tale spanning five thousand years. Science, folklore, history and ethnography bind Quantum Cannibals into an intelligent, cohesive and action-packed adventure.
Meet the Main Characters: Osnat/Asenath
If you had a free day with no responsibilities and your only mission was to enjoy yourself, what would you do?
I would devote myself to the biology, taxonomy and habitat of the human spirit. It’s an arcane subject that’s my real interest. The thing is, the conscious spirit is like a key to reality. Quantum science teaches us that observation by a consciousness collapses the probability wave, actualizing, making real, whatever it is that’s being observed. I wish I could explain it better… What is that key? What gives us that power? What gives a squirrel, a cat or even a bug that power? Can we do anything with it? I wonder if that’s the basis of all those spooky stories-- you know, where a person uses their mind to blow things up, kill people.Right now I’m too tied up with mundane things. I’ve have to finish my grain project. It will improve agriculture production a thousand percent, and effectively eliminate world hunger. I just hope I don’t get interrupted. I suppose, in response to your question, there’s no such thing as a day with no responsibilities for me. Every day I’m not working is a day where people won’t benefit from my project. I’m not being vainglorious. The head of the lab used that line to convince me to work there.
If you could spend the day with someone you admire (living or dead or imaginary), who would you pick?
My husband Simon. I met him in his pristine form when I was killed, and he invited me to stay with him forever. I couldn’t. I had to return, or my people would have died. But I wish I could spend a day with him. Let him hold his baby, let him share the happiness. Show him I kept my promise to get away, to keep our child alive.Simon knew he was going to be murdered. He may have even suspected what was going to happen next. It didn’t distract him. All he cared about was his wife, and the baby she was carrying.
What is your idea of perfect happiness? And, what is your current state of mind?
I was terrified when Vlad carved my eyes out. Maybe I should have asked what he was planning when I told him to ‘do it.’ But you know what? Once he did that, my vision was clear. With eyes, I was only able to see three dimensions; that was blindness compared to what I beheld. That was complete understanding. That was perfect happiness.My current state of mind? Well, once you have complete understanding, the experience never leaves you. I have a job to do now, to make sure that our people survive their exile in this cruel, harsh place… No, not just survive, but thrive in a place where the sun disappears for months, where it’s so cold your pit freezes before it hits the ground. Will we be trapped here for months? Years? Centuries? Even when I finish my grain project, how can I tell people? How will I get it through the barrier I can’t fixate on that. Maybe every day that we live is a day of perfect happiness. It’s certainly better than when we first arrived, and most everyone froze or starved to death.
What do you consider to be the most overrated virtue and why?
Harmony, peace of mind. You know, if Adam and Eve hadn’t eaten the apple in the Garden of Eden, God would have found some other excuse to kick them out. It’s being troubled, it’s conflict that stirs one to life. How did the Master of War put it? “The turbulence, the troubles I stir up make life possible.”Tell us 3 things about yourself that the readers do not know about.
I killed someone. I mean, besides the village that I just annihilated. This guy attacked me in my lab. I stabbed him in the temple, and then turned the body into dust in the hazards oven.I’m probably one of the wealthiest people on the planet. The royalties, the license fees from my inventions… I probably earn more in an hour than most people do in a year. Ironic, isn’t it? Next time I’m attacked by a polar bear, I’ll offer it a million dollars to go away. If it continues the attack, I’ll offer ten million. Hah! If I don’t feel like hunting, I’ll offer to give someone a shopping center if he gets me a few rabbits.
I’m a wimp. I just about passed out from the pain when I was in labor. I told Haran to take a gun and shoot me, I couldn’t stand the pain.
But it was back labor, and you had no medication, not even an epidural. Back labor is supposed to be excruciating.
Yeah, I suppose. Still… Considering the pain I’ve inflicted on others, I should be able to take more myself.About the Author:
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