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Lila Black is now a shapeshifting machine plugged into the Signal—the total dataset of all events in the known universe and all potential events: Zal, the elf rock star with a demon soul, is now a shadowform animated and given material actualization by firelight; Teazle the demon has taken up the swords of Death and is on the way to becoming an angel. To say this puts some pressure on their three-way marriage is an understatement.

Meanwhile the human world is seeing an inexplicable influx of the returning dead, and they’re not the only ones. Many old evils are returning to haunt the living following three harbingers of destruction created in the ancient past. What seems epic is revealed as personal to all concerned as events unfold and that which cannot be escaped must be faced.

Heroic destinies unravel as greater powers reveal themselves the true masters of the game and survival may be the only winning hand.

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Praise for the Quantum Gravity series:

"An immensely entertaining mixture of rock and roll, introspection, and action."
–Booklist

"For Fans of...Tolkien, had he gone electric, dropped acid, and discovered tantric sex..."
–Entertainment Weekly

"Skillfully builds a seamless connection between sf and fantasy…featuring a strong, action-oriented heroine and a unique world setting. With appeal to fans of contemporary culture and mature YAs..."
–Library Journal

"Fast-paced techno-fantasy [that] will delight fans of manga-influenced action and violence."
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About the Author

Justina Robson is the author of Keeping It Real, Selling Out, Going Under, and Chasing the Dragon (Books one through four of the Quantum Gravity series). Her first novel, Silver Screen, published in 1999 in the UK and in 2005 by Pyr, was short-listed for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the BSFA Award, and was nominated for the Philip K. Dick award. Her second novel, Mappa Mundi, together with Silver Screen, won the Amazon.co.uk Writer’s Bursary in 2000 and was also short-listed for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2001. A third novel, Natural History, a far-future novel, placed second in the 2004 John W. Campbell Award, was short-listed for the Best Novel of 2003 in the British Science Fiction Association Awards, and was also nominated for the 2006 Philip K. Dick Award, receiving a special citation. A fourth novel, Living Next Door to the God of Love, was a finalist for the BSFA Award. Visit Justina Robson's Web site at www.JustinaRobson.com.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1616143797
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pyr; 0 edition (August 23, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 429 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781616143794
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1616143794
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.02 x 0.89 x 9 inches

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Justina was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1968. She sold her first novel in 1999. Since then she has won the 2000 Amazon UK Writers’ Bursary Award. She has also been a student (1992) and a teacher (2002, 2006) at the Arvon Foundation in the UK. She was a student at Clarion West, the U.S. boot camp for science fiction and fantasy writers, in 1996.

Her books have been variously shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Best Novel Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the John W. Campbell Award. An anthology of her short fiction, Heliotrope, was published in 2012. In 2004, Justina was a judge for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, on behalf of the Science Fiction Foundation.

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Crazily creative, but also a bit confusing

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2012

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This is the fifth and final book in the Quantum Gravity series. This whole series has been crazy creative, a bit ambiguous at times, and lots of fun. This book tied things up nicely, but wasn't an easy read at all...parts of the book were downright confusing.

Lila is back working for the Agency and is an unstoppable fighting machine. Zal is wandering around not sure what to do with himself but enjoying the time with Lila. Teazle is the Angel of Death and enjoys slaughtering massive amounts of demons. When the world is once again threatened and on the edge of being torn asunder, these three will have to figure out how to destroy the Titans and save the world.

I love, love, love the concept behind these books. The five worlds (or is it six now?) all running along side each other and entwined is awesomely creative and so interesting.

I also enjoy the complex characters; they all have good attributes to their personalities but they are also all highly flawed characters as well. In this book you get to see even more of the interesting relationship Lila has with her two husbands, Zal and Teazle. It is kind of neat to watch how the three of them seem to bring out the best parts of each other.

All that being said, Robson is not very forthcoming with any flashbacks or synopsis that remind us what the heck was going on in the last books. This is an incredibly complex world with a ton of characters...all of who have undergone very large changes throughout the series. I really struggled to remember all the inter-relationships and all of the small things that suddenly became significant.

If you add to the above the fact that at times I have some trouble picturing exactly what Robson is trying to describe...well at times things are just very ambiguous and I was downright confused with what was going on here. You kind of gotta just sit back and go with all the craziness...not think too hard and just let the story take you where it will. The story is very dense and was a very slow read for me.

Overall I think fans of the series will enjoy the conclusion. On the other hand unless you've read all the other books in the series very recently I think you will also be confused. This is not a series for those who like easy reading or hate ambiguity. It is an incredibly creative series that is super interesting and has some really wonderful flawed characters. Oh yeah and the characters totally kick ass. Recommended to fans of science fiction/urban fantasy who don't mind a bit of ambiguity.

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Thomas O. Hagan

Good conclusion to a good series

Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2013

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Sometimes, this series was highly confusing. Was this character or that an Elf, or was that the Faerie? And discussions of how the Ether works were about as easy to follow as quantum physics discussions.

But that is part of the fun. Remember Star Trek dialogue about the workings of the warp drive? They were not supposed to be understandable. Same for Ether, here, in my opinion.

I like this series for many reasons, and now because I've learned a valuable lesson. This year I read what so far exists of the yet incomplete Game of Thrones series, and the complete Mistborn trilogy. The lesson is to wait until such series are done before starting to read them. It's too hard to remember wassup in a complicated story such as the Quantum Gravity series when the series takes years to finish. And for less complicated stories such a GoT, it's frustrating to read 5 books in four months as I did, then realize I won't see the next volume for at least a year or two, and I won't come to the end for 3-4 years after that.

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Anne King

Great story, but you really have to read them all.

Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2012

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I loved the first book, dove into the next two and had to wait for the next to be published. I read that one and got a little lost because too much time had lapsed. I had the same problem with the final book, so after finishing it I went back and reread the others. That made it all fit together. I would definately recommend these books if you like sf and fantasy mixed up together. Lila was a little whiney at times throughout, but her utter uniqueness as a character lets you overlook most of it.

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JMS

Lovely ending but I wished Teasle had gotten his

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2013

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This is a great ending to the series. Was so happy to see she was finally going to give this amazing techno sci-fi fantasy an ending. Had to go back and re-read the entire series in order to get back into the story, but it was completely worth it. I love the main characters and I was so happy to spend more time with them. Felt that some issues with Teasle were not resolved, but my imagination will have to fill in the blanks.
One of the most original series I have ever read!

Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2015

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I loved this series. Can't really remember how the story was narrated but pretty sure it might have been alternating persons. But unfortunately these are the only Justina Robson books I enjoyed. I think I tried all her other books. Possibly the others were just beyond my intellect. Or it could be the characterization. I really need to like the characters and feel like I could "touch" them. In her other books the characters felt very far away and I just didn't get drawn into the story because of that.

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My experience with down to the bone was pretty good. The book was ship in a reasonable ...

Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2015

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My experience with down to the bone was pretty good. The book was ship in a reasonable time frame and the story was good.

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D. Drummond

This whole series was strange

Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2013

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There are some bizarre twists and turns in this series of books but the kept me intrigued so that I had to buy and read all five books.

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phillip v. t.

A fitting end for the Quantum Gravity series.

Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2017

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Robson has allowed her characters to grow and develop as a truly cataclysmic end looms ahead. Her literary sense is spot on .

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Susan Stepney

complicated and violent, but always engaging

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 31, 2017

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The final instalment of the Quantum Gravity series does not disappoint.

As with the previous instalment, this starts off slowly, because there is such a complicated scene to set by now. Lila and Zal and Teazel have all been through the wringer, and it looks like those events may just have been the starter for what’s about to go down: nothing less than the end of all the universes.

The trio have to fight to save everything, with no hope of success, and with little clue about who the real enemy is. So they use their standard approach: attack full on. Things get complicated and violent, but always engaging. And there is an unexpected, but satisfying, conclusion.

Ed.F

An excellent end to a great series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 22, 2011

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I've really enjoyed this series from Justina Robson, in Lila Black she has created one of the most complex and interesting heroines in science fiction and her easy blend of traditional sci-fi tropes with those of the more complex fantasy novels has provided an intriguing set of concepts for her to play with as well as a fascinating series of worlds to explore and interlink.

In this volume Robson overturns some of the assumptions she has let you build over the previous four volumes as well as delivering a pacey and thoroughly enjoyable conclusion to the series. The narrative drags you around the three primary protagonists as they confront their own specific fates and offers a degree of closure as to the less well sketched out elements of their origination and back stories. If I have any complaints it's that towards the end of the narrative the pace accelerated to almost breathless pace and parts of the cohesive nature of the story fell to the wayside as Justina strove towards the end. A great read all round though and recommended without hestitation.

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Mojomel

A good end to the series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 19, 2014

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I've absolutely loved these books (read them all twice)
I have to admit though in this book I got a bit lost halfway through, I persevered and I'm so glad I did, the ending was just how I'd hoped it would be.
This series is one of my all time favourites and one I think I will end up 're reading again and again.
Amazing authour, will we see another Lila Black book?... I hope so but if there isnt, I don't mind too much.

Eric Lyon-Taylor

great book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 8, 2014

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great book, with a good ending to the cycle. The ending was a little to sweet for my liking, but i can see why the author wanted to write it that way so that she could write more books if necessary or called for, but i personally would have liked a bleaker ending.

Annie

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 8, 2015

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