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** Jean le Flambeur's Oubliette alter ego is named Paul Sernine -- an anagram of ArseneLupin, on whom Jean's character is based.
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** Jean le Flambeur's Oubliette alter ego is named Paul Sernine -- an anagram of ArseneLupin, on whom Jean's character is based. based.
*** And later, we learn that Jean is a longtime fan of the Lupin stories -- which implies that the choice of name was intentional in-universe, on Jean's part.
*** And later, we learn that Jean is a longtime fan of the Lupin stories -- which implies that the choice of name was intentional in-universe, on Jean's part.
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* InfoDrop: The author seems particularly adverse to exposition, so the only hope a reader has to figure anything out is to piece all the disparate tidbits together. [[LoveItOrHateIt Depending on your opinion]], this is either part of the series' charm, or horribly frustrating.
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The second part of the trilogy, ''The Fractal Prince'', came out in late 2012. The third and final installment, ''The Causal Angel'' came out in July 2014.
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The All-Defector always defects, no exception.
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** Sumanguru smoked cigars when he was human, but unlike Pellegrini, his avatars don't follow the habit.
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* TooDumbToLive: The pellegrini honestly thought that she could use the All-Defector for her own ends, forgetting what defines that entity. It's in the name!
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* SocialEngineering: Like all good conmen, Jean plays his opponents and innocent bystanders like a fiddle to reach his desired goals.
** The Great Game Zoku prefer to gather information through this rather than MindRape, if they have the time. They can build immensely elaborate scenarios for the person they want to probe and determine what they know from their choices and actions inside the simulation.
** The Great Game Zoku prefer to gather information through this rather than MindRape, if they have the time. They can build immensely elaborate scenarios for the person they want to probe and determine what they know from their choices and actions inside the simulation.
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** And [[CthulhuMythos Mythos-zoku]]. And [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion Zoku]]. The Zoku are one big collection of Internet-culture Shout Outs because many of them are supposed to be the very same people who contribute in those today and feel nostalgic about them.
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* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: The pellegrinis almost always appear to be smoking cigarettes when they make an appearance.
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* YouWillBeAssimilated: If the Sobornost has their way, all minds will be uploaded as Gogols into their planet-sized ''gubernya'' diamond brains. It seems that they will ask a permission from [[{{Transhuman}} Transhumans]] first, at least if they're not hostile. Baseline humans don't get a say in the matter.
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* YouWillBeAssimilated: If the Sobornost has their way, all minds will be uploaded as Gogols into their planet-sized ''gubernya'' diamond diamonoid brains. It seems that they will ask a permission from [[{{Transhuman}} Transhumans]] first, at least if they're not hostile. Baseline humans don't get a say in the matter.
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* BiggerOnTheInside: Most spaceships in this universe tend to be quite small, sometimes small enough to fit in a pocket, but those made by Sobornost or the Zoku have virtual spaces that are only limited by their owners' imaginations.
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* CoolShip: Mieli's ''Perhonen'' and Jean's old ship, ''Leblanc'', definitely qualify.
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Mieli doesn\'t really qualify as post-human — while Jean himself arguably does.
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Also due to make life difficult for Isidore is the GentlemanThief Jean le Flambeur, a figure of legend who's modeled himself on Literature/ArseneLupin. A debt of honor requires Jean to commit a daring heist, but first he must steal back his own memories from the Oubliette of Mars. He's accompanied by Mieli, the bitter post-human masterminding the mission, her flirtatious spaceship, and the goddess she reluctantly serves.
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Also due to make life difficult for Isidore is the GentlemanThief Jean le Flambeur, a figure of legend who's modeled himself on Literature/ArseneLupin. A debt of honor requires Jean to commit a daring heist, but first he must steal back his own memories from the Oubliette of Mars. He's accompanied by Mieli, the bitter post-human transhuman masterminding the mission, her flirtatious spaceship, and the goddess she reluctantly serves.
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* TheAlternet: The Spimescape is the closest equivalent of a Solar System-wide information network, though it's heavily divided and fragmented.
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* SteamPunk: Some Zokus are fond of the aesthetic. At one point in ''Causal Angel'' Jean has to remind himself that the man he is trying to con is not a goofy steampunk cyborg, but a posthuman entity with a quantum brain pretending to be one for his own amusement.
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* ShoutOut: Countless, both obscure and popular.
** ''Causal Angel'' briefly features Notch-zoku that is devoted to building monuments and whose symbol is a [[MineCraft crudely carved man with a pickaxe]].
** ''Causal Angel'' briefly features Notch-zoku that is devoted to building monuments and whose symbol is a [[MineCraft crudely carved man with a pickaxe]].
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* InfoDrop: The author seems particularly adverse to exposition, so the only hope a reader has to figure anything out is to piece all the disparate tidbits together. [[LoveItOrHateIt Depending on your opinion, this is either part of the series' charm, or horribly frustrating.]]
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* InfoDrop: The author seems particularly adverse to exposition, so the only hope a reader has to figure anything out is to piece all the disparate tidbits together. [[LoveItOrHateIt Depending on your opinion, opinion]], this is either part of the series' charm, or horribly frustrating.]]
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* InfoDrop: The author seems particularly adverse to exposition, so the only hope a reader has to figure anything out is to piece all the disparate tidbits together. [[LoveItOrHateIt Depending on your opinion, this is either part of the series' charm, or a horribly frustrating.]]
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* InfoDrop: The author seems particularly adverse to exposition, so the only hope a reader has to figure anything out is to piece all the disparate tidbits together. [[LoveItOrHateIt Depending on your opinion, this is either part of the series' charm, or a horribly frustrating.]]
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* ExpendableClone: The Sobornost Founders have uploaded their minds to millions of artificial bodies. These collectives are called copyclans, and their members synchronize their memories and brainpower whenever they are together, allowing them to be everywhere in their massive empire at once. It doesn't matter if a few die, since there's always backups. Although their interests don't always coincide, and some of the Founders are said to be in war against themselves. Also, the main protagonist, Jean le Flambeur has millions of copies of himself trapped forever in the Dilemma Prison, but he's just happy that he was the one that got away.
** The narration refers to the Sobornost Founder copyclans with a lower-case initial to emphasize their expendable nature: the hsien-kus, the sumangurus, the chens, the pellegrinis, etc.
** The narration refers to the Sobornost Founder copyclans with a lower-case initial to emphasize their expendable nature: the hsien-kus, the sumangurus, the chens, the pellegrinis, etc.
* ForeignCussWord: Mieli swears like a sailor at times -- in Finnish.
* GentlemanThief: The title character.
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* ExpendableClone: The Sobornost Founders have uploaded their minds to millions of artificial bodies. These collectives are called copyclans, and their members synchronize their memories and brainpower whenever they are together, allowing them to be everywhere in their massive empire at once. It doesn't matter if a few die, since there's always backups. Although their interests don't always coincide, and some of the Founders are said to be in war against themselves. Also, the main protagonist, Jean le Flambeur has millions of copies of himself trapped forever in the Dilemma Prison, but he's just happy that he was the one that got away.
** The narration refers to the Sobornost Founder copyclans with a lower-case initial to emphasize their expendable nature: the hsien-kus, the sumangurus, the chens, the pellegrinis, etc.
* ForeignCussWord: Mieli swears like a sailor at times -- in Finnish.
* GentlemanThief: The title character.
** The narration refers to the Sobornost Founder copyclans with a lower-case initial to emphasize their expendable nature: the hsien-kus, the sumangurus, the chens, the pellegrinis, etc.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: The hsien-kus are eccentric scholars, generally considered the silly aunts of the Sobornost family. They devote themselves wholly to preserving as much of the past world in their virtual constructs as they can. [[spoiler:And they are building a system that would tear Earth apart molecule by molecule to be uploaded in perfect accuracy to their ''guberniya'' forever.]]
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: The BewareTheNiceOnes:
**The hsien-kus are eccentric scholars, generally considered the silly aunts of the Sobornost family. They devote themselves wholly to preserving as much of the past world in their virtual constructs as they can. [[spoiler:And they are building a system that would tear Earth apart molecule by molecule to be uploaded in perfect accuracy to their ''guberniya'' forever.]] ]]
** The Zokus are generally considered the "good guys" compared to the Sobornost, as they respect individual choice and freedom, but they ''will'' MindRape you if you get on their wrong side or have something that they really want. In the latter case they're just really apologetic about it. In the former, they get ''creative''.
**The hsien-kus are eccentric scholars, generally considered the silly aunts of the Sobornost family. They devote themselves wholly to preserving as much of the past world in their virtual constructs as they can. [[spoiler:And they are building a system that would tear Earth apart molecule by molecule to be uploaded in perfect accuracy to their ''guberniya'' forever.
** The Zokus are generally considered the "good guys" compared to the Sobornost, as they respect individual choice and freedom, but they ''will'' MindRape you if you get on their wrong side or have something that they really want. In the latter case they're just really apologetic about it. In the former, they get ''creative''.
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* PracticalCurrency: The currency on Mars is ''time''. When one runs out, their mind gets put into a work body for a few years to earn more. Think [[XMeetsY community service meets forced labor]].
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* PracticalCurrency: The currency on Mars is ''time''. When one one's time as a Noble runs out, their mind gets put into a Quiet work body for a few years to earn more. Think [[XMeetsY community service meets forced labor]].
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* ImpossibleThief: pretty much any time Jean le Flambeur pulls of a serious con he qualifies for this. Most spectacularly, in the closing moments of the second book [[spoiler:it turns out the artifact everybody is fighting over is a fake, and he had already stolen the real one from them without leaving a single trace]]
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*PracticalCurrency: The currency on Mars is ''time''. When one runs out, their mind gets put into a work body for a few years to earn more. Think [[XMeetsY community service meets forced labor]].
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** Zoku means "community" in Japanese.
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** Zoku means "community" in Japanese.Japanese.
** Jean le Flambeur's Oubliette alter ego is named Paul Sernine -- an anagram of ArseneLupin, on whom Jean's character is based.
** Jean le Flambeur's Oubliette alter ego is named Paul Sernine -- an anagram of ArseneLupin, on whom Jean's character is based.
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->''No one else will remember or know what we are going to say here. Even I will forget, unless you let me remember. This is is the way things work here. No one has to be a stranger.''
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->''No one else will remember or know what we are going to say here. Even I will forget, unless you let me remember. This is is the way things work here. No one has to be a stranger.''
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The second part of the trilogy, ''The Fractal Prince'', came out in late 2012. The third installment, ''The Causal Angel'' is expected in April 2014.
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The second part of the trilogy, ''The Fractal Prince'', came out in late 2012. The third installment, ''The Causal Angel'' is expected in April July 2014.
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* HumanoidAbomination: The Sobornost Founders arguably qualify.
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* HumanoidAbomination: The Sobornost Founders arguably qualify. The All Defector has only been seen as a humanoid so far, but then [[NothingIsScarier it's exact nature isn't clear]]
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* AIIsACrapshoot: The Sobornost gave up on trying to create intelligence without sapience or make minds not based on the human cognitive architecture after they ended up creating the mindless, destructive insanity that was [[EldritchAbomination the Dragons]]. Disturbingly, this means that every single system that the Sobornost uses is powered by a spliced, copy-pasted and mutilated version of an uploaded human mind.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: The Sobornost gave up on trying to create intelligence without sapience or make minds not based on the human cognitive architecture after they ended up creating the mindless, destructive insanity that was [[EldritchAbomination the Dragons]].Dragons]], which are now used only as terror weapons. Disturbingly, this means that every single system that the Sobornost uses is powered by a spliced, copy-pasted and mutilated version of an uploaded human mind.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: The hsien-kus are eccentric scholars, generally considered the silly aunts of the Sobornost family. They devote themselves wholly to preserving as much of the past world in their virtual constructs as they can. [[spoiler:And they are building a system that would tear Earth apart molecule by molecule to be uploaded in perfect accuracy to their ''gubernya'' forever.]]
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: The hsien-kus are eccentric scholars, generally considered the silly aunts of the Sobornost family. They devote themselves wholly to preserving as much of the past world in their virtual constructs as they can. [[spoiler:And they are building a system that would tear Earth apart molecule by molecule to be uploaded in perfect accuracy to their ''gubernya'' ''guberniya'' forever.]]
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** Not a Bilingual Bonus, but [[spoiler:knowing that 'oubliette' is a word for a type of dungeon does make a reveal at the end less surprising.]]
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** Not strictly a Bilingual Bonus, but [[spoiler:knowing that 'oubliette' is a word for a type of dungeon does make a reveal at the end less surprising.]]
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The second part of the trilogy, ''Fractal ''The Fractal Prince'', came out in late 2012.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: The Sobornost gave up on trying to create intelligence without sapience or make minds not based on the human cognitive architecture after they ended up creating the mindless, destructive insanity that was [[EldritchAbomination the Dragons]]. Disturbingly, this means that every single system that the Sobornost uses is powered by a spliced spliced, copy-pasted and mutilated version of an uploaded human mind.
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* EmperorScientist: The seven Sobornost Founders are implied to have been the first group of scientists who figured out human mind uploading and quantum entanglement, and realized that this puts them above any corporation or government on Earth in terms of power if they keep it for themselves.[[spoiler: The King of Mars also qualifies.]]
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* EmperorScientist: The Most of the seven Sobornost Founders are implied to have been were originally some of the first group of world's most brilliant scientists who figured out human mind uploading from the early era of mind-uploading in the 2060's, and quantum entanglement, and realized that this puts them above any corporation or government on Earth continue their experiments in terms of power if increasingly massive scale to the present day. Notably, they keep it work in very different fields of expertise; the hsien-kus are sociologists and historians while the chens focus on physics, for themselves.example. [[spoiler: The King of Mars also qualifies.]]
