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The quantum thief6/27/2023 "Prisons are always the same, don't you think?" It is a stunning debut.Ĭhapter 1: The Thief and the Prisoner's DilemmaĪs always, before the warmind and I shoot each other, I try to make small talk. The Quantum Thief is a dazzling hard SF novel set in the solar system of the far future - a heist novel peopled by bizarre post-humans but powered by very human motives of betrayal, revenge and jealousy. She offers him a chance to win back his freedom and the powers of his old self - in exchange for finishing the one heist he never quite managed. Jean's routine of death, defection and cooperation is upset by the arrival of Mieli and her spidership, Perhonen. Now he is condemned to play endless variations of a game-theoretic riddle in the vast virtual jail of the Axelrod Archons - the Dilemma Prison - against countless copies of himself. 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 steal their thoughts, to stealing rare Earth antiques from the aristocrats of the Moving Cities of Mars. Jean le Flambeur is a post-human criminal, mind burglar, confidence artist and trickster. A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction.200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.
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