George Johnson: A Shortcut Through Time
A Shourtcut Through Time: The Path to a Quantum Computer, from Joseph F. Traub’s review in Scientific American: “[The author] has set himself the task of deconstructing quantum computing at a level that readers of [New York Times, where he writes about science] can understand. He has succeeded admirably. He explains the principles of quantum mechanics essential to quantum computing but tells no more than necessary. [–––] One of our most gifted science writers, Johnson is a master at bringing the reader along, giving increasingly better approximations to the truth. The book is lucid, elegant, brief – and imbued with the excitement of this rapidly evolving field.” (Via Abbas Raza.)