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| Title | : | The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur #1) |
| Author | : | Hannu Rajaniemi |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 2010 by Gollancz |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Cyberpunk |
Hannu Rajaniemi
Hardcover | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 3.83 | 18249 Users | 1881 Reviews
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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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| 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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Ratings: 3.83 From 18249 Users | 1881 ReviewsPiece Based On Books The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur #1)
Quantum begins with a thief in prison, endlessly reliving The Prisoner's Dilemma. Ah, but this one is different, mainly because he doesn't learn. An enhanced woman and her sentient ship break him out for reasons unknown, but before they can get far, the chase is on. In payment for freeing him, the woman and her hidden benefactor have something they want him to steal. Next stop, Mars, where he has to discover his prior identity in an idealistic, privacy focused society. Meanwhile, a young man3.5/5 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,
There Will Be Invisibility Lotion For Ugly LoversThis belongs to the "post-singularity" sub-genre of science fiction. "The singularity" was originally a name for a conceivable point in the future beyond which science fiction writers cannot extrapolate. Basically, the idea is that if we come to understand the human mind well enough to improve it through technology, and in particular our improvements make them better at the cognitive task of improving minds, then they'll be able to make even
The first chapter was one of the best I've read in a long time. Initially, I found it a bit of a struggle to adapt to the concepts and visuals, but the challenge was worthwhile. I ignored the glossary and list of characters on Wikipedia because I trust a good show-don't-tell style of writing. At times I had to re-read sections that twisted and fried my mind, but I consider that fun, if and only if, the reward is gratifying. And it was. The elements of the story include a dense and fine mix of
5 Super big stars3 times is a real charm with this masterpiece. After two rereads my love for this book is even more..."Being about to become someone else is a thrilling feeling, a tickle of possibility in my gut. There must have been times when I flicked from one identity to another, posthuman, zoku, baseline, Sobornost. And that makes me want to be the god of thieves again, more than anything." This is an unusual case for me in that I really found that I loved and appreciated this book so much
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 physics
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