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The Quantum Thief
A Science Fiction Novel by Hannu Rajaniemi
Book 1 of the Jean le Flambeur Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Heist,
- Cyberpunk,
- Detective Mystery
This book is for you if you're into...
- Mind-bending heists in a city where time is literal currency
- Post-human schemes with memory theft, digital espionage, and shifting identities
- Roaming Martian cities that feel alive and never stay still
From Little Stack
The city of Oubliette is built on Mars—part clockwork marvel, part post-human maze. The city roams the harsh Martian surface, always avoiding the brutal daylight, and it gives you the feeling like it’s a “mechanical ghost” that never has any sense of permanence or belonging, a feeling mirrored in the characters.
In this futuristic city, everyone is given a certain amount of time to live, and may earn more time by contributing to society. Similar to Altered Carbon, consciousness is portable and transferable, with minds being constantly swapped, backed up, and cloned, and physical bodies merely used as shells to house them.
The futuristic element is truly on full display with avatar-based communication, reshaping bodies, a city that feels semi-sentient, nanotech systems, and digital espionage and memory warfare.
Jean le Flambeur is a post-human criminal, mind burglar, confidence artist, and trickster. His origins are shrouded in mystery, but his exploits 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.
Now he's confined inside the Dilemma Prison, where every day he has to get up and kill himself before his other self can kill him. Rescued by the mysterious Mieli and her flirtatious spacecraft, Jean is taken to the Oubliette, the Moving City of Mars, where time is currency, memories are treasures, and a moon-turned singularity lights the night. What Mieli offers is the chance to win back his freedom and the powers of his old self—in exchange for finishing the one heist he never quite managed.
As Jean undertakes a series of capers on behalf of Mieli and her mysterious masters, elsewhere in the Oubliette investigator Isidore Beautrelet is called in to investigate the murder of a chocolatier, and finds himself on the trail of an arch-criminal, a man named le Flambeur.
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