⇒ PDF Quantum Coin E C Myers 9781616146825 Books

Quantum Coin E C Myers 9781616146825 Books

Download As PDF : Quantum Coin E C Myers 9781616146825 Books

Quantum Coin E C Myers 9781616146825 Books

My mind is officially boggled and blown. But mostly boggled. Quantum Coin was an awesome sequel and conclusion! Of course there had to be some lingering side effects to Ephraim using that coin so much! I wasn't sure what this one could possibly be about since Fair Coin seemed to wrap up quite nicely, but there's plenty of new and exciting stuff happening to Ephraim and his friends as they try to set the multiverse right. He was hoping to be done with jumping from universe to universe, but then Zoe crashes the prom after some weirdness has been occurring. Once again the fate of the universe (well, all universes technically) is in the hand of a group of teenagers.

Quantum Coin is Science Fiction through and through! There is a ton of scientific explanations throughout. Some of it is based on facts, some of it is theory, and some of it, I suspect, is just made up. While it could seem info-dumpy to many readers, I actually loved all of these lengthy conversations about parallel universes and decoherence. I am a science geek, and while physics isn't my field, I still find it all fascinating! At times it was a bit much at once, and I found myself confused, but even Ephraim who is living it didn't full understand, so I felt much better about that.

This time instead of being on his own or with some Nathan analog, Ephraim is mostly working with Zoe and Jena. This of course results in a really bizarre and awkward love triangle. The romance is definitely not the focus, but it does have a larger presence in Quantum Coin than in the previous book. Jena and Zoe may be genetically identical, but they are very different young woman. I think it's fairly obvious who Ephraim will pick early on, but he's kind of oblivious. Everyone figures it out before he does. Silly boy, but he was busy trying to save billions upon billions upon billions of lives.

I loved this duology! I'm sad it's over, but Quantum Coin was an almost perfect ending for these characters. I do still have questions about what happened to a few of the secondary characters though. It has also left me slightly paranoid. You know how sometimes you'll walk into a room and forget what you were doing? What if that's because you've just shifted into a parallel universe and switched places with one of your analogs...


Tags : Quantum Coin [E. C. Myers] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. <b>The sequel to the exciting adventure spun across parallel worlds!</b> Ephraim thought his universe-hopping days were over. He's done wishing for magic solutions to his problems; his quantum coin has been powerless for almost a year,E. C. Myers,Quantum Coin,Pyr,1616146826,Science Fiction - General,Magic,Science fiction,Science fiction.,Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9),Science fiction (Children's Teenage),Young Adult Fiction,Young Adult Fiction Science Fiction General

Quantum Coin E C Myers 9781616146825 Books Reviews

I liked Fair Coin but Quantum Coin was an order of magnitude better! Very exciting and enjoyable story. It will keep you reading!
I have a love for any books with parallel worlds in them. This book is one of them that takes it in a different direction. Try out this book if your like me.
considering how forced follow ups and trilogys seem these days, it was not only great to see a follow up to the wonderful Fair Coin, but one that felt like it earned the story it told rather than being written just to write it. I loved both coin books and can't recommend them enough.
As in the first book there are plenty of plot twists that kept me from guessing what was truly going on. Most authors focus on what would happen next. The story is not a fairytale. There are parts not recommended for people who want an all round happily ever after. It does pose an interesting thought of the consequences of parallel universes and how they work.
...you got 99 parallel universes and a girlfriend in every one.

Quantum Coin is the follow up to Fair Coin, which was a fun YA romp in which a geeky kid named Ephraim Scott discovered a quarter in his locker that let him jump into parallel universes. And in some of them, Jena Kim, the girl of his dreams, actually liked him.

The sci-fi twist is that in a more futuristic version of their world, Jena, Ephraim and his best friend Nathan are reality-hopping explorers. The 'quarter' that Ephraim discovered is actually one half of a device keyed specifically to his biometrics that allows them to universe-hop.

But the three teens encounter alternate versions of themselves called 'analogs' in almost every universe they visit, and trouble starts when one of the Nathans turns out to be a psychopath who strands Ephraim in a terrifying alternate-reality.

By the end of Fair Coin Ephraim gets the girl (in this case a hard-edged 'analog' of Jena Kim named Zoe Kim), thwarts Evil Nathan, and returns to his home reality. The coin's power is used up and all seems to be restored to normal.

Quantum Coin picks up a year later. Ephraim is now dating the Jena Kim from his own reality and everything seems peachy. Until Zoe Kim shows up, having escaped from her own parallel universe, to tell Ephraim that things are falling apart and the Multiverse itself is at stake!

Yes, really.

Something is causing the fabric of the parallel universes to unravel and Ephraim and Zoe, with Jena tagging along, need to figure out what.

High-schoolers saving the very existence of the universe may seem a little bit cheesy, and it is, but this ludicrous plot-line is more than made up for by the joys of watching Ephraim squirm while jealous alternate-reality versions of his girlfriend fight over him. Although sexual tension abounds and all the characters are constantly talking about sex, almost no one ever actually does the deed.

Often when sci-fi stories feature teenagers, their personal dramas are groan inducing while the plot is fascinating. In Quantum Coin, it's the other way around. Author E.C. Myers draws vivid characters who relate to each other in realistic ways. He also makes their analogs believable. It's interesting meeting Ephraims, Jenas and Nathans who differ in dramatic yet plausible ways thanks to their experiences in their own universes.

But Quantum Coin has a much more sci-fi driven plot than its prequel, and here's where it stumbles. Ephraim and his friends are called on to help their older, reality-traveling analogs put the multiverse back to rights when things start going haywire. While the rules of universe-hopping were spelled out pretty clearly in the first book, in this one those rules pretty much go out the window. There are multiple controllers for changing realities and sometimes you don't even need one, and the more the mechanics of the Myers' multiverse are explained the less they make sense.

This book also suffers from a lack of a strong central villain like the first one had. There isn't really a villain in Quantum Coin, just some occasionally misguided people who are trying, along with the reader, to figure out what the heck is happening.

It all ultimately comes down to a choice for Ephraim what version of his girlfriend does he really want to be with, and what version of himself does he want to be? This is a much more compelling story than the highly dubious multiverse plot. Fortunately the author realizes that by the end, and brings the focus back to where it should be on Ephraim, Nathan, Jena/Zoe, and the choices they make.

Worth reading, but definitely pick up Fair Coin first.
My mind is officially boggled and blown. But mostly boggled. Quantum Coin was an awesome sequel and conclusion! Of course there had to be some lingering side effects to Ephraim using that coin so much! I wasn't sure what this one could possibly be about since Fair Coin seemed to wrap up quite nicely, but there's plenty of new and exciting stuff happening to Ephraim and his friends as they try to set the multiverse right. He was hoping to be done with jumping from universe to universe, but then Zoe crashes the prom after some weirdness has been occurring. Once again the fate of the universe (well, all universes technically) is in the hand of a group of teenagers.

Quantum Coin is Science Fiction through and through! There is a ton of scientific explanations throughout. Some of it is based on facts, some of it is theory, and some of it, I suspect, is just made up. While it could seem info-dumpy to many readers, I actually loved all of these lengthy conversations about parallel universes and decoherence. I am a science geek, and while physics isn't my field, I still find it all fascinating! At times it was a bit much at once, and I found myself confused, but even Ephraim who is living it didn't full understand, so I felt much better about that.

This time instead of being on his own or with some Nathan analog, Ephraim is mostly working with Zoe and Jena. This of course results in a really bizarre and awkward love triangle. The romance is definitely not the focus, but it does have a larger presence in Quantum Coin than in the previous book. Jena and Zoe may be genetically identical, but they are very different young woman. I think it's fairly obvious who Ephraim will pick early on, but he's kind of oblivious. Everyone figures it out before he does. Silly boy, but he was busy trying to save billions upon billions upon billions of lives.

I loved this duology! I'm sad it's over, but Quantum Coin was an almost perfect ending for these characters. I do still have questions about what happened to a few of the secondary characters though. It has also left me slightly paranoid. You know how sometimes you'll walk into a room and forget what you were doing? What if that's because you've just shifted into a parallel universe and switched places with one of your analogs...