Mieli has a job for le Flambeur, but before he can work for her, he first has to regain the memory of who he was on the Reconstruction-era Mars. Then le Flambeur is rescued by the beautiful post-human Mieli, a member of some vague group from the far reaches of the solar system. Forced to kill the other prisoners and war machines with archaic projectile guns or die and be resurrected, le Flambeur is not even sure if he actually is himself, or merely a construct. Yet even great thieves get caught occasionally, and as the novel opens, le Flambeur is caught in a quantum Dilemma Prison. Jean le Flambeur is the greatest thief of all time. in quantum physics, think tank director and second language English writer, details a complex story that gets off to a rocky start but pays off big in the end. Post-Earth cyberpunk finds a new voice in Hannu Rajaniemi’s debut novel The Quantum Thief. Publisher: Tor Books First Edition edition 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.Originally published at Grasping for the Wind. But for all its wonders, The Quantum Thief is also a story powered by very human motives of betrayal, jealousy, and revenge. Hannu Rajaniemi's 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. Now he has the chance to regain himself in all his power―in exchange for finishing the one heist he never quite managed. 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. 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. Indeed, in his many lives, the entity called Jean le Flambeur has been a thief, a confidence artist, a posthuman mind-burgler, and more.

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. 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. Jean le Flambeur gets up in the morning and has to kill himself before his other self can kill him first. One of Library Journal's Best SF/Fantasy Books of 2011 The Quantum Thief is a Kirkus Reviews Best of 2011 Science Fiction & Fantasy title.

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