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THE QUANTUM THIEF by Hannu Rajaniemi
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I've bought this and fully intend reading it (I did nominate it, after all), but I've been sucked into book 4 of a certain moderator's space opera epic so it may take me a while to get to it...
O.M.G this book has been on my TBR for so long. I really hope I can get to it this month.
His writing style is quite something else. He doesn't really explain any of the tech that is presented or anything else for that matter. I only got about 3/4 way through before I couldn't do it anymore. I just had no clue what was happening in the story or what the world he created was like.
Jonathan wrote: "His writing style is quite something else. He doesn't really explain any of the tech that is presented or anything else for that matter. I only got about 3/4 way through before I couldn't do it any..."I initially didn't like it,but finally it caught me into the world
Hmm... Well, that was interesting. It left me thinking about how total immersion in technology might strip away everything that makes us human - especially once memories become divorced from our flesh. Whether that is what the author was aiming for, I can't say. I wrote a short review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
One thing he aimed for was a world very different from ours.
"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....
Okay. I'm hooked. 'Nuff said...
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.
ARE YOU READING THE QUANTUM THIEF? Shout it out in the discussion thread below, find some Book Buddies to read along, and tell us what you think as you read your way through the book. Just remember to BE KIND please and use the spoiler .html so you don't ruin the plot twists for a friend who isn't as far along.
Be epic!
Anna Erishkigal
SOF Borg Queen