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So ‘quantum’ becomes magic with which a person can do anything.

Late in the book it appeared Rajaniemi may not have defined his terms because it enabled him to use ‘science’ as magic for example, q-dots began as something inside a person’s replacement body, later there was a q-dot gun with q-dot bullets, later still the q-dots in the body enabled Jean to do a spiderman, and finally q-dots created a bubble in which a person was ejected from a spacecraft.

I think a good author will speak to more than just the most elite of his audience, so the responsibility lies both with the author and the reader to work together with the narrative. As I haven’t read much hard SF lately, I’m somewhat confused about the science content of this book. It wasn’t until I was in my 20s that someone told me Schroedinger and Heisenberg were real people, at which point in time I thought, if someone had told me physics got interesting after high school I might have continued with those studies. Most of my physics was picked up as a teen reading Heinlein, Asimov and similar authors. I felt somewhat out of my depth at first, not knowing what was science and what was fictional invention. The Quantum Thief began with some definite hard science, including mention of game theory. This is one of the SF novels of 2010 that everybody is talking about if you have any interest at all in contemporary hard SF you will read it. The book has Stross’s inventiveness and deep intelligence and farseeing imagination alongside Moorcock’s stylish feel and flow. There has been a revolution, but the king is still around.Īdam Roberts (Professor of 19th Century Literature at London University, author of Soddit and The Dragon with the Girl Tatoo) says, ‘The mix is something like 40% Dancers at the End of Time and 60% Charlie Stross. The zoku are a technocrat subculture visiting Mars who have interfered with the society. The Oubliette is a society on Mars conflicted within itself, with tzaddik acting as police while trying to find who rules the city so they can revolt.

Memories are stored as computer data, which have been wiped from Jean’s memory making his quest to steal this item more difficult, as he doesn’t even remember what the item is he is going to steal. After escaping the prison, they go to Mars in pursuit of information that will lead them to their long term objective. Mieli and her ship Perhonen rescue Jean as a means of recruiting him to complete his greatest heist yet, a heist that he previously attempted and failed. The Quantum Thief is Jean Le Flambeur is a thief trapped in a prison playing game theory with the other prisoners as a form of rehabilitation.