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{{quote| ''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.''}}▼
| title = The Quantum Thief
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| author = Hannu Rajaniemi
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| genre = Science fiction
| franchise = Jean le Flambeur
| followed by = The Fractal Prince
| publication date = 2010
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''[[The Quantum Thief]]'' is Hannu Rajaniemi's debut sci-fi novel, and the first of a
In a post-[[The Singularity|Singularity]] solar system slowly being eaten by a community of uploaded minds, Mars has remained independent and unique thanks to its extreme attitude to privacy: all memory is externally stored and encrypted, and you can't access a memory unless everyone involved consents. This makes life pretty difficult for detective Isidore Beautrelet, but as a native Martian he wouldn't have it any other way.
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* [[Bizarrchitecture]]: The city of Oubliette on terraformed Mars is built on the backs of titanic Atlas Quiets, uploaded human minds controlling gigantic robots. In result it's always on the move, and its layout is constantly changing as the Quiets move around each other. As far as bizzareness of architecture goes, it's actually one of the more ''normal'' locations in the novel's transhuman future.
* [[Clock Punk]]: The Oubliette, most notably with the Watches that measure each citizen's time as a Noble before they are turned into robotic Quiet.
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