Name: Planetary
ISBN: 9781563897771

Warren Ellis

All Over the World and Other Stories

Planetary

Gavin

The description of the “quantum” computer commits the first fallacy of QC (that it is fast because it tries out all answers at once) and then turbocharges it, so that quantum computing creates and destroys umpteen universes when it answers queries about e.g. what are the parts of this big number.
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But it’s not the kind of work that merits that kind of snark: it is Pulp fiction, and a good thing too. Better than League of Extraordinary Gentlemen even.

Planetary All Over the World and Other Stories