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Sets a new standard for science writing . . . a delight and a rare gem. -- The New York Times <br> Using metaphors instead of mathematics, George Johnson brings clarity to the strange world of the quantum computer. -- Scientific American <br> He makes you smart and quantum computing real. -- Kevin Kelly, Wired <br> Lucid and accessible. . . . Johnson does a fine job of telling a story that makes sense both to those who are completely at home in the mathematical theory of the subatomic world and to those whose reaction to the theory is abject terror. . . . A beguiling combination of clarity and enthusiasm. -- New Scientist<br>

Sets a new standard for science writing . . . a delight and a rare gem. <i>The New York Times Using metaphors instead of mathematics, George Johnson brings clarity to the strange world of the quantum computer. <i> Scientific American He makes you smart and quantum computing real. -- Kevin Kelly, <i>Wired Lucid and accessible. . . . Johnson does a fine job of telling a story that makes sense both to those who are completely at home in the mathematical theory of the subatomic world and to those whose reaction to the theory is abject terror. . . . A beguiling combination of clarity and enthusiasm. <b> </b><i>New Scientist

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George Johnson writes about science for The New York Times. His most recent books, Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics and Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order, were finalists for the Aventis and Rhone-Poulenc science book prizes. He has also won the AAAS Science Journalism Award. He is codirector of the Santa Fe Science-Writing Workshop and a former Alicia Patterson fellow. Mr. Johnson lives in Santa Fe. He can be reached on the World Wide Web at talaya.net.

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