THE QUANTUM THIEF PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Hannu Rajaniemi | 384 pages | 31 Jan 2012 | St Martin's Press | 9780765367662 | English | New York, United States The Quantum Thief PDF Book Ian McDonald was the other science fiction author he mentioned as influential, [6] plus Frances A. Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews. Digest this. My score after the last game is an ache in my bones. If so, this is the book for you. You can walk down the street cloaked in privacy, so anyone passing won't recognize you unless you want them to. Maybe he does when it comes to certain of his ideas about physics and cryptography, but that's where the plausibility ends. The more common approach is, alas, to simply ignore the problem. There are authors who don't cotton to hand-holding, and then there are authors who drop you off in the middle of Times Square on New Year's Eve, distract you with a party favor, and then run the other way as fast as they can. You are a Copy that knows it is a copy. Further, the book is overly long, and in need of some serious editorial focus, with questions like on "what story are you telling? 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. When an individual's time is expended, their consciousness is uploaded into a "Quiet". A prison cell, fake, pale sunlight. Books by Hannu Rajaniemi. Toilet doors. Friend Reviews. If he succeeds, he might trigger an interstellar war, but success might also point the way to the next step of Homo quantus evolution. Twist his command of vocabulary and ideas with the hard science of say a Greg Egan novel, and you can see what this book is like. The rendering programs had notations made just for the Homo quantus that allowed them to go past even this, to see the eleven-dimensional geometries that approached the complexity of wormholes. About thirty pages in, I actually gave in and spoiled the hell out of myself just so I could feel more comfortable in the world Rajaniemi created. Iterative design by the mutation of replicating units is better. View all 14 comments. It is almost too late. Of course, once someone makes a proclamation like that, people are going to want to try to square the circle. Or he was lying. I know this is not how most people will want to experience this book. By 'blinking, you can recall anything that happened anywhere in the Oubliette using the exomemory. Can't speak higher on Scott Brick's performance, get the book to hear his narration! There is not enough room inside your head. Opposing him is a brilliant young detective named Isidore Beautrelet. This King, who is another copy of Jean Le Flambeur, is defeated in the ensuing conflict. Oct 03, Kara Babcock rated it really liked it Shelves: artificial-intelligence , ebook , netgalley , science-fiction , canadian-author , space-opera , read. Only one came back. And sometimes they go back to basics and make us prisoners — old-fashioned prisoners, questioned by hard-eyed men — who have to choose between betrayal and the code of silence. It's written in a breezy style reminiscent of Maurice LeBlanc's Arsene Lupin, a work that this one owes a great debt to. If you like hard SF, this is the book for you - recommended! The story is of a thief, who is brought to The Oubliette to help Mieli and her aware ship. Two, the plot is a fairly straightforward Whodunnit mixed with elements of One Last Job, with a thief and a detective squaring off, sprinkled with a Mysterious Backstory and some small-r romance. Add to Cart failed. To be clear, this is a thoroughly enjoyable and exceedingly fun story, with some of the makings of greatness. Oct 25, Skip rated it liked it Shelves: thriller , science-fiction. But serial fiction always does that kind of thing, and I'm sure if I read the sequel it would be bad in the same way, right up until its end which would try its hardest to get me to buy the third one. Someone get Rajaniemi a few more advanced science degrees, stat! I'd say it depends on A your comfort level with having no idea what the hell is happening for hundreds of pages, and B your familiarity with the genre. Or not. I laughed more times, this second read. Quantum begins with a thief in prison, endlessly reliving The Prisoner's Dilemma. View 2 comments. The Quantum Thief Writer And then you get a giant look-up table of "firing patterns" -- which will take what, a galaxy's worth of computer memory? Isidore is one of those obsessive Javert-like detectives who just can't let things go, though he's got his own personal problems. How did they do it? More by Hannu Rajaniemi See more. Another quantum-freak like Bel. While being biochemically unable to leave their gods or really reform their scriptures because of the way they've been bioengineered. The charact 3. They rise up higher and higher, air rushing past, and for a moment she feels like she lived in Grandmother Brihane's house and had wings again. Stuff about identity and the panopticon and surveillance. I'd say the book approaches a number of ideas per page ratio comparable to one of China Mieville's works. But, as with the Torah, it's not very much fun to simply read. People on Mars have a technological privacy system called "gevulot" that mediates their interactions -- just like on Facebook, you can control who sees what, so that only certain people can see your face, and others can access some of your memories at will cool! It ticked every box in what I look for in a book from this genre. The story felt more intimate than epic, with a small group of tightly connected characters. Further, the book is overly long, and in need of some serious editorial focus, with questions like on "what story are you telling? A bit later, however, the writing style moves away from that extreme show-don't-tell style and it presents itself itself with detailed, character-driven scenes that caught me by surprise and delighted me to the end. Nothing that will penetrate the camouflage layers beneath her gevulot, but it serves as another reminder that the natives have more than just bows and arrows. Example: I take her hand. The people who are many have made worlds that shine and glitter, as if just for him, and he just has to reach out his hand and pick them up. A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. She holds it in her mouth before spitting it out, a rough little thing, surface engraved with memory. Put it seemed incredibly scientific though. Is he lying to me? A sweet con job with all the geek stuff that I love. The quantum foam and Q-dots made me giggle. The world you see around you, the you that is seeing it, has been digitized, scanned, and downloaded into a virtual reality program. Details if other :. And yet the obsessive compulsive reader might feel compelled to finish them anyway. If you like Oceans 11 you will probably like this book by the way I never liked any of those movies. Ryder Smith Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins Unabridged Overall. I expected this novel to be more action packed, but instead found it rather slow paced. I also didn't love the foul-mouthed genetically engineered undersea being. The bad thing is, everyone will want to. And they just plop us down into these worlds and never, ever tell us what is going on. Although you are absolutely right. All in all a strange and very unique book which I thoroughly enjoyed. I almost gave this three stars because the last 70 pages or so were really cool and made me curious about what would happen in the sequel. I read on, not understanding much, till I had to stop and think about my dilemma. As I have asserted above, this book, though not massive in size, is massive in what it wants to convey. View all 7 comments. There is a sun far above, almost like the real one but not quite right, paler. In my family went to Ireland and we had a great time. It's a heist story. I highly recommend this book if you're into good writing, tons of well-developed speculation about the development of future tech, and fantastic imagery that feels right and isn't a distraction from the plot. You should know by now that it always goes for tit-for-tat. The story started with the offer of a job with an enticing payout. That I can't really explain? Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining station, has died. So, should you read this? The Quantum Thief Reviews The theory is that as we meet again and again, cooperative behaviour will emerge. While I'm on the topic of hardness, here's a description of a technique used by mind-pirates to upload their targets' brains: "You infect the target with a virus that makes their neurons sensitive to yellow light.