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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Also in ''The Causal Angel'' [[spoiler: Thanks to the near limitless resources of the Chen guberniya, the All-Defector is able to model Jean's brain to the point where some of the simulations are able to escape into the main Ver they're in. HilarityEnsues.]]
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Also in ''The Causal Angel'' Angel'', [[spoiler: Thanks thanks to the near limitless resources of the Chen guberniya, the All-Defector is able to model Jean's brain to the point where some of the simulations are able to escape into the main Ver they're in. HilarityEnsues.]]
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Also in ''The Causal Angel'' [[spoiler: Thanks to the near limitless resources of the Chen guberniya, the All-Defector is able to model Jean's brain to the point where some of the simulations are able to escape into the main Ver they're in. HilarityEnsues.]]
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* MacGuffin: The Kaminari Jewel doesn't do much in the first two books besides set up the plot of the series, though it takes a more central role in ''The Causal Angel''.
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* HeroicSacrifice: In ''The Fractal Prince'' [[spoiler: Perhonen performs one to save Jean and Mieli from Chen and the Dragons.]]
** In ''The Causal Angel'' [[spoiler: Jean performs one to save Child!Chen from the All-Defector before the guberniya is wiped.]]
** In ''The Causal Angel'' [[spoiler: Jean performs one to save Child!Chen from the All-Defector before the guberniya is wiped.]]
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* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: At the end of ''The Causal Angel'', Meili uses the Kaminari Jewel to teleport the Super City Zokus into a different universe moments before they would have been destroyed.]]
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* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: At the end of ''The Causal Angel'', Meili Mieli uses the Kaminari Jewel to teleport the Super City Zokus into a different universe moments before they would have been destroyed.]]
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* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: At the end of ''The Causal Angel'', Meili uses the Kaminari Jewel to teleport the Super City Zokus into a different universe moments before they would have been destroyed.]]
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** The All-Defector's ultimate goal is nothing less than to ''become'' the entire universe.
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** The All-Defector's All-Defector[[spoiler: 's ultimate goal is nothing less than to ''become'' the entire universe.]]
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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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The second part of the trilogy, ''The Fractal Prince'', came out in late 2012. A physicist receives a mysterious paper. The ideas in it are far, far ahead of current thinking and quite, quite terrifying. In a city of fast ones, shadow players, and jinni, two sisters contemplate a revolution. And on the edges of reality a thief, helped by a sardonic ship, is trying to break into a Schrödinger box for his patron. In the box is his freedom. Or not. Jean de Flambeur is back. And he’s running out of time.
The third and final installment, ''The Causal Angel'', came out in July2014.
2014. After the events of The Fractal Prince, Jean le Flambeur and Mieli are separated. The two protagonists, each in their own way, struggle to decide where their loyalties lie and how to proceed in the catastrophically altered situation. Meanwhile, the Solar System is plummeting into an all-out war. The most powerful factions, the Sobornost and the Zoku, are gathering their forces and making their plays, while simultaneously being torn apart by internal strifes.
The third and final installment, ''The Causal Angel'', came out in July
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!!''The Quantum Thief'' provides examples of:
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!!''The Quantum Thief'' Jean le Flambeur Trilogy'' provides examples of:
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** The All Defector. [[spoiler: It's a perfect sociopath who believes in nothing but its own survival. Its ultimate goal is to use the Kaminari Jewel to become an expanding bubble of space time and assimilate all reality into itself, since from its perspective this is the only rational conclusion to be made and the fact that they're still alive is just evidence that no one else has been able to do it yet.]]
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* DeathIsCheap: For the Zokus and Sobornost, at least. The Zokus are primarily defined by their degree of entanglement with others, so as long as enough of their jewels are intact making a new body for someone who "died" is a trivial matter, deserving no more acknowledgement than having a party with close friends. For Sobornost, they fork so many copies of their gogols that the only risk destruction has is a loss of information. Hell, copy-clans leave their names in lower case just to emphasize how meaningless their individual selves are.
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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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* 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 300 year old posthuman entity with a quantum brain pretending to be one for his own amusement.
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* WifeHusbandry: For the Zoku, you make children ''for a reason''. It can be for something as benign as easing assimilation into a new culture, or as insidious as extracting information from a prisoner without their knowledge.
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* WifeHusbandry: For the Zoku, you make children ''for a reason''. It can be for something as benign as easing assimilation into a new culture, or as insidious as extracting making a personal connection with a prisoner to extract information from a prisoner without their knowledge.
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* WifeHusbandry: For the Zoku, you make children ''for a reason''. It can be for something as benign as easing assimilation into a new culture, or as insidious as extracting information from a prisoner without their knowledge.
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MagicFromTechnology: In ''The Fractal Prince'', the inhabitants of Sirr couch their understanding of Wild Code in terms of Middle-Eastern stories, mythology, and mysticism.
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* MagicFromTechnology: In ''The Fractal Prince'', the inhabitants of Sirr couch their understanding of Wild Code in terms of Middle-Eastern stories, mythology, and mysticism.
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* ClarksThirdLaw: Given that it's a post-singularity setting it's inevitable that borderline impossible things pop up, most blatantly the Kaminari Jewel and the Zoku Realm Gates. The Zoku in general seem to like to play up this aspect of their technology to cater to their personal aesthetics.
MagicFromTechnology: In ''The Fractal Prince'', the inhabitants of Sirr couch their understanding of Wild Code in terms of Middle-Eastern stories, mythology, and mysticism.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Jean is a spanner to just about every plotter in the Solar System, eventually including himself, thanks to his past MemoryGambit -- he failed to take into account that by allowing his personality to be modified to accomplish his greatest achievement he might no longer be willing to follow the steps of his XanatosRoulette exactly as he originally planned.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Jean is a spanner to just about every plotter in the Solar System, eventually including himself, thanks to his past MemoryGambit -- [[spoiler: he failed to take into account that by allowing his personality to be modified to accomplish his greatest achievement he might no longer be willing to follow the steps of his XanatosRoulette exactly as he originally planned. planned.]]
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* AssimilationPlot: Pops up a few times.
** The goal of Sobornost and the Great Common Task is to upload every human mind to the guberniyas. Unfortunately for everyone else, UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans.
** In the third book [[spoiler: it is revealed the ultimate goal of the All Defector is to use the Kaminari Jewel to become an expanding bubble of space time and [[ApocalypseHow assimilate all other universes into itself.]]]]
** Also in the third book, in an unusual benevolent example, [[spoiler: the King of Mars unlocks ALL of the memory locks moments before the Oubliette is destroyed, connecting every person on Mars at an incredibly intimate level to give them some measure of comfort. As they say, on Mars no one has to be a stranger.]]
** The goal of Sobornost and the Great Common Task is to upload every human mind to the guberniyas. Unfortunately for everyone else, UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans.
** In the third book [[spoiler: it is revealed the ultimate goal of the All Defector is to use the Kaminari Jewel to become an expanding bubble of space time and [[ApocalypseHow assimilate all other universes into itself.]]]]
** Also in the third book, in an unusual benevolent example, [[spoiler: the King of Mars unlocks ALL of the memory locks moments before the Oubliette is destroyed, connecting every person on Mars at an incredibly intimate level to give them some measure of comfort. As they say, on Mars no one has to be a stranger.]]
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* AssimilationBackfire: The All-Defector beats people by simulating them well enough to predict their actions. [[spoiler: Jean beats the All-Defector by forcing it to simulate him so well that his simulated copy is enough like him to break free of the simulation.]]
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* AssimilationBackfire: The All-Defector beats people by simulating them well enough to predict their actions. At the end of ''The Causal Angel'', [[spoiler: Jean beats the All-Defector by forcing it to simulate him so well that his simulated copy is enough like him to break free of the simulation.]]
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* AssimilationBackfire: The All-Defector beats people by simulating them well enough to predict their actions. [[spoiler: Jean beats the All-Defector by forcing it to simulate him so well that his simulated copy is enough like him to break free of the simulation.]]
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* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: What would you expect from an upload collective descended from online roleplaying guilds?
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** Pixil's Zoku. What would you expect from an upload collective descended from online roleplaying guilds?
** Pixil's Zoku. What would you expect from an upload collective descended from online roleplaying guilds?
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* TheSingularity:
** The breakthrough that lead to the discovery of mind uploading happened approximately 300 years before the story, and the development of technology went out of control in the matter of years, culminating in the event known as the Collapse, which rendered Earth nearly uninhabitable.
** Another Singularity-event known as the Spike, which lead to the total destruction of the planet Jupiter, happened only some years before the story, and is a driving force in the background of the plot, as all parties are attempting to find out exactly what happened.
** The breakthrough that lead to the discovery of mind uploading happened approximately 300 years before the story, and the development of technology went out of control in the matter of years, culminating in the event known as the Collapse, which rendered Earth nearly uninhabitable.
** Another Singularity-event known as the Spike, which lead to the total destruction of the planet Jupiter, happened only some years before the story, and is a driving force in the background of the plot, as all parties are attempting to find out exactly what happened.
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''The Quantum Thief'' is Hannu Rajaniemi's debut sci-fi novel, and the first of a planned trilogy.
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''The Quantum Thief'' is Hannu Rajaniemi's debut sci-fi novel, and the first of a planned trilogy.
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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 disposition]], this is either part of the series' charm, or horribly frustrating.
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* InfoDrop: The author seems particularly adverse averse 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 disposition]], this is either part of the series' charm, or horribly frustrating.
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* YouWillBeAssimilated: If the Sobornost has their way, all minds will be uploaded as Gogols into their planet-sized ''gubernya'' 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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**If the Sobornost has their way, all minds will be uploaded as Gogols into their planet-sized ''gubernya'' 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.
** The All-Defector's ultimate goal is nothing less than to ''become'' the entire universe.
**If the Sobornost has their way, all minds will be uploaded as Gogols into their planet-sized ''gubernya'' 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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* SpannerInTheWorks: Jean is a spanner to just about every plotter in the Solar System, eventually including himself, thanks to his past MemoryGambit -- he failed to take into account that by allowing his personality to be modified to accomplish his greatest achievement he might no longer be willing to follow the steps of his XanatosRoulette exactly as he originally planned.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In ''The Causal Angel'', [[spoiler:Jean crashes the Zoku's quantum communication network as a distraction in order to rescue Mieli. Unfortunately, in doing so, he cripples the Zoku moments before they're attacked by a force of Sobernost ships controlled by the All-Defector.]] Oops.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In ''The Causal Angel'', [[spoiler:Jean crashes the Zoku's quantum communication network as a distraction in order to rescue Mieli. Unfortunately, in doing so, he cripples the Zoku moments before they're attacked by a force of Sobernost Sobornost ships controlled by the All-Defector.]] Oops.
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* MemoryGambit: [[spoiler:Jean]] pulls this surprisingly often, with mixed results. The biggest is unveiled in ''The Causal Angel'', wherein we learn that [[spoiler:an earlier, more ruthless Jean le Flambeur arranged to be incarcerated in the dilemma prison after a memory wipe, hoping he could escape as a better person to activate a powerful device that [[OnlyThePureOfHeart can only be used by those with good intentions]]. Of course, [[AmnesiacDissonance the new, nicer Jean is horrified]], and [[NiceJobFixingItVillain promptly rebels against his former self.]]
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*** 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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*** And later, we We later learn that Jean is a longtime fan of the Lupin stories -- stories, which implies that the choice of name was intentional in-universe, on Jean's part.
