![]() ![]() ![]() Much of the novel's narrative takes place on Mars in the Moving City of the Obliette that wanders the Martian surface terra-forming as it goes. The future portrayed is what in Vernor Vinge terms might be described as post-singularity and humans have uplifted themselves into a Greg Egan type far future (see Diaspora, Incandescence or Schild's Ladder). Meanwhile on Mars a detective (an old fashioned concept) is wrapping up a murder case… Of course he owes her his freedom, and besides if he does not help she will kill him. She wants Jean's help to steal something. It is in the midst of one such game that he (or a version of himself) is sprung from jail by Meli and her sentient ship Perhonen who originally came from the Oort cloud. It is all supposedly part of his rehabilitation. ![]() Or to be more precise, having been incarcerated, there are now many copies of himself in prison with each being forced to play Prisoners' Dilemma with each other, and here the cooperation reward is not just shooting the other but with the big being prize to shoot the other without getting shot back. It is the future centuries from now and Jean le Flambeur is a thief who is being held in a (space) prison for his crimes. The Quantum Thief – Hanu Rajaniemi Fiction Reviews ![]()
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