Pentaquantum

"Pentaquantum" is an explosive Belarusian post-cyberpunk that transports the reader from the neon streets of Kyoto to the concrete jungle of Minsk-3 and further into space.
Artem Shukanov combines a technological thriller, philosophical fiction, and an adventure drive in one text.
This is a novel about a future world where artificial intelligence, space elevators, and human ambition collide at the edge of possibility.
The Belarusian answer to "Neuromancer" and "Cryptonomicon" is modern, deep, and with a sense of true cyberpunk.

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The cyberpunk literary genre remained in the nineties. All its literary consequences that we see around us are the development of the genre with the prefix “post”. “Pentoquant” is exactly such a post-cyberpunk novel, an unbridled and large-scale techno-thriller that follows in the footsteps of “Kryptonomicon” and “Avalanche” by Neal Stevenson, while carrying the scars of “Andromeda Strain” by Michael Crichton and “Neuromancer” by William Gibson.

Despite the fact that “Pentoquantor” is the author’s debut, Artem Shukanov approached the plot with a bang. The action takes place in the Buddhist temples of hot Laos and on the rainy neon streets of Kyoto. From the concrete jungle of Minsk-3, which is on the eastern borders of the Intermarium, we have to move to the Maldives, and from there, when the story becomes crowded on Earth, across the Indian Ocean to the great flower of the Red Plumeria, the lower station of the space elevator, from where the heroes will begin their farthest journey to the planet Juniper.

This is the debut novel by Artyom Shukanov, who once asked himself the question, “What have I done for cyberpunk in my years?” and decided to try something significant. Without caring about the consequences, he kicked open the literary door, immediately rolling out a large and epic science fiction novel to the reader.

“Pentaquantar” is a lively and modern, technical and hardcore Belarusian post-cyberpunk adventure, written by a person for people.