Hannu Rajaniemi
Hardcover | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 3.83 | 18249 Users | 1881 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Quantum Thief |
| ISBN: | 0575088877 (ISBN13: 9780575088870) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Jean le Flambeur #1 |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2011), John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (2011), Premio Ignotus Nominee for Mejor novela extranjera (Best Foreign Novel) (2014), Nuori Aleksis -palkinto Nominee (2012), Tähtivaeltaja Award (2012) Seiun Award 星雲賞 Nominee for Best Translated Long Form (2013) |
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Jean le Flambeur gets up in the morning and has to kill himself before his other self can kill him first. Just another day in the Dilemma Prison. Rescued by the mysterious Mieli and her flirtatious spacecraft, Jean is taken to the Oubliette, the Moving City of Mars, where time is a currency, memories are treasures, and a moon-turned-singularity lights the night. Meanwhile, investigator Isidore Beautrelet, called in to investigate the murder of a chocolatier, finds himself on the trail of an arch-criminal, a man named le Flambeur...Indeed, in his many lives, the entity called Jean le Flambeur has been a thief, a confidence artist, a posthuman mind-burgler, and more. His origins are shrouded in mystery, but his deeds are known throughout the Heterarchy, from breaking into the vast Zeusbrains of the Inner System to stealing rare Earth antiques from the aristocrats of Mars. In his last exploit, he managed the supreme feat of hiding the truth about himself from the one person in the solar system hardest to hide from: himself. Now he has the chance to regain himself in all his power—in exchange for finishing the one heist he never quite managed.
The Quantum Thief is a breathtaking joyride through the solar system several centuries hence, a world of marching cities, ubiquitous public-key encryption, people who communicate via shared memory, and a race of hyper-advanced humans who originated as an MMORPG guild. But for all its wonders, The Quantum Thief is also a story powered by very human motives of betrayal, jealousy, and revenge.
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| Title | : | The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur #1) |
| Author | : | Hannu Rajaniemi |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 2010 by Gollancz |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Cyberpunk |
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Ratings: 3.83 From 18249 Users | 1881 ReviewsJudge Epithetical Books The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur #1)
I really don't remember last time when I was excited in such way by a book. The story is set in a post-human future, where the humankind had achieved digital immortality and god-like powers, and splitted into fractions, each with a different vision of its future. A thief, Jean le Flambeur, escapes a prison of one of the fractions and tries to find his memories on Mars, in a moving city of Oubliette, where he had hidden them from himself. The story is stuffed (thanks to the author's physics3.5/5 starsNo spoonfeeding, nil exposition, bizarre, high concept, and compelling.Jean Bizarre Adventure, this should be the title of the series. Let this review be an example of the authors storytelling style; zero exposition and fast-paced. This is a short book, around five hours read because it cut every single world-building information usually contained in SFF books. Rajaniemi didn't spoonfeed his readers. Hell push you off a cliff with his high concept, then instead of giving you a rope,
The Quantum Thief is a difficult book to describe. I suppose, at it's heart, it's a fast paced action novel about theif who is broken out of prison in order to steal something for those who helped him escape. That's true, but it hardly describes the surreal, strange world Hannu Rajaniemi has created.It was a difficult book to grasp as the new world was never really explained and you just had to learn what a whole bunch of strange terms like Oubliette, Tzaddikim, Sobornost meant as you went
I am very surprised and delighted by this novel. I half-expected an idea or a theme from Stephen Baxter's Flux, but was thoroughly captivated by such a deeply thought-out world and a complex plot. I didn't find many issues with plot discontinuity, as such. There were quick scene changes that might have benefited by a more overt transition or two, but that is a minor issue compared to the tapestry of worlds within worlds that this author has written. Very enjoyable characters, and the twists are
What a blast! This book was highly entertaining. Its set in a far distant future with technology so advanced that the milieu truly lives up to the dictum that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. The world-building here is vaguely based on principals of quantum physics, nanotechnology, AI and digitized consciousness. Much of it is very likely impossible, but just as some authors like Tolkien had the gift for naming in fantasy, Rajaniemi has a gift for describing
A fascinating read about a fascinating world filled to the brim with fascinating advanced technology and mind-boggling concepts. This book completely blew my mind the moment I finished reading and kept me dazed in a book hangover for weeks afterward. I was blown away by the complex worlds (and worlds within worlds) the author created and I wanted to experience them over and over again. But now that those effects are wearing off, so are my feelings regarding the book's ingenuity and the author's
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