Hannu Rajaniemi The Quantum Thief Gollancz, 2010, First Edition. 1st impress
The Book is very fine, square, tight and unread. It is unmarked, with clean pages, and is free of inscriptions. 1st Edition, first impression with 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 run. The first printings of Quantum Thief are now uncommon.
There is speculation that a good portion were pulped due to a missing acknowledgements page but this is unconfirmed. 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 steal their thoughts, to stealing rare Earth antiques from the aristocrats of the Moving Cities of Mars. Except that Jean made one mistake.
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. Jean's routine of death, defection and cooperation is upset by the arrival of Mieli and her spidership, Perhonen. 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.It is a stunning debut. This item is in the category "Books, Comics & Magazines\Books". The seller is "jim-bobs" and is located in this country: GB. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Book Title: The Quantum Thief
- Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
- Format: Hardback
- Type: Novel
- Author: Hannu Rajaniemi
- Publication Year: 2010
- Language: English
- Publisher: Gollancz
- Edition: First Edition
- Genre: Science Fiction
- Series: The Jean le Flambeur series
- Special Attributes: 1st Edition
- ISBN: 9780575088870