The Quantum Thief
by Hannu Rajaniemi, Roz Kaveney (Introduction by)

A stunning debut novel and a rollicking cyberpunk romp, The Quantum Thief is a modern classic of science fiction.

 

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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, a city of ubiquitous public-key encryption where 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. 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.

This new Tor Essentials edition of The Quantum Thief includes a new introduction by Roz Kaveney.

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