Hannu Rajaniemi

How do you catch a spy who''s already dead? In 1938, death is no longer feared but exploited. Since the discovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, a metropolis for the recently deceased.But Britain isn''t the only contender for power in this life and the next. The Soviets have spies in Summerland, and the technology to build their own god.When SIS agent Rachel White gets a lead on one of the Soviet moles, blowing the whistle puts her hard-earned career at risk. The spy has friends in high places, and she will have to go rogue to bring him in.

Mindblowingly inventive and beautifully written short stories from the most exciting new name in SFHannu Rajaniemi exploded onto the SF scene in 2010 with the publication of his first novel The Quantum Thief. Acclaimed by fellow authors such as Charles Stross, Adam Roberts and Alastair Reynolds and brilliantly reviewed everywhere from Interzone to the Times and the Guardian he swiftly established a reputation as an author who could combine extraordinary cutting edge science with beautiful prose and deliver it all with wit, warmth and a delight in the fun of storytelling.It is exactly these qualities that are showcased in this his first collection of short stories. Drawn from antholgies, magazines and online publications and brought together in book form for the first time in this collection here is a collection of seventeen short stories that range from the lyrical to the bizarre, from the elegaic to the impish. It is a collection that shows one of the great new imaginations in SF having immense fun.

The solar systems greatest thief is wanted for murder. To prove his innocence, he needs to pull off a heist even he thought was impossible . . .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.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. Jeans routine of death, defection and cooperation is upset by the arrival of Mieli and her spidership, Perhonen. She offers him a chance to win back his freedom and the powers of his old self - in exchange for finishing the one heist he never quite managed . . .Readers have been gripped by THE QUANTUM THIEF:I am very surprised and delighted by this novel . . . this monolith of story, this dire-light, this cutting of an epic gordian knot has got to be one of the classics of literature- Goodreads reviewer, I enjoyed the hell out of this and am eating up the rest of the series without hesitation - Goodreads reviewer, I cannot emphasize how much I love and appreciate the depth and complexity that [The Quantum Thief] realizes. Rajaniemi has crafted a hard science masterpiece that sets up a wonderful series - Goodreads reviewer, This really is one of my all time favourite High Concept SciFi novels. Its an unrelenting stream of far out tech and cultural experimentation taken to extremes. - Goodreads reviewer, Complex & yet compulsively readable . . . The Quantum Thief is one of the most innovative debut novels Ive ever read! - Goodreads reviewer, I really dont remember last time when I was excited in such way by a book . . . surely the best debut in this genre for a long time - Goodreads reviewer,

I burned through it . . . Great book: Tinker Tailer Soldier SpookIan McDonaldLoss is a thing of the past. Murder is obsolete. Death is just the beginning. ***** How do you catch a spy whos already dead? In 1938, death is no longer feared but exploited. Since the discovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, a metropolis for the recently deceased. But Britain isnt the only contender for power in this life and the next. The Soviets have spies in Summerland, and the technology to build their own god. When SIS agent Rachel White gets a lead on one of the Soviet moles, blowing the whistle puts her hard-earned career at risk. The spy has friends in high places, and she will have to go rogue to bring him in. *************************Summerland: As if Alfred Hitchcock had made a movie with HP Lovecraft . . . A vision so original it deserves its own subgenre. And all worked out with the diamond-hard logic of a great SF writer. After Summerland, the thriller has a new geometryStephen BaxterEerily plausible, beautifully pitched on the cusp between wonder and horror, and thoroughly engrossing from the first page to the last Alastair Reynolds Clever, subtle and . . . has a rich emotional centreSFXSummerland is in its own way as persuasive an example of Rajaniemis disciplined inventiveness as his better-known hard SFLOCUSEngaging writing, tight plotting and fantastic imaginationEd McDonald, author of BlackwingA tense and twisting tale full of delightful allusions and ingeiousKen MacLeodAn intricate and vivid world of technological and spiritual wonderKirkusHard to admit, but I think hes better at this stuff than I amCharles Stross

With his infectious love of storytelling in all its forms, his rich characterisation and his unrivalled grasp of thrillingly bizarre cutting-edge science Hannu Rajaniemi has swiftly set a new benchmark for SF in the 21st century. And now with his third novel he completes the tale of his gentleman rogue, the many lives and minds of Jean de Flambeur.Influenced as much by the fin de siecle novels of Maurice leBlanc as he is by the greats of SF Rajaniemi weaves, intricate, warm capers through dazzling science, extraordinary visions of wild future and deep conjecture on the nature of reality and story.And now we find out what will happen to Jean, his employer Miele, the independently minded ship Perhonnen and the rest of a fractured and diverse humanity flung through the solar system.

Jean le Flambeur is out of prison, but still not free. To pay his debts he has to break into the mind of a living god. But when the stakes are revealed, Jean has to decide how far he is willing to go to get the job done.The sequel to Hannu Rajaniemis extraordinary debut novel is set to build on the extravagant promise of one of the most exciting new voices to come out of the genre this century.

Before the bio-terror attack, Darkome was a place where DIY genetics enthusiasts could communicate in peace. After the attack, they were pushed deep underground by a brutal government response. The perpetrators were from Darkome, and the biohacker community was simply too dangerous to be allowed to exist.Inara was a member of Darkome, but was forced to leave when she realised she had a rare form of cancer which could only be controlled by accepting an Aspis medchip. It could monitor her health and pump her full of a cocktail of drugs to combat her illness, but it went against everything Darkome stood for. She had to choose between her community and her life.But now Inaras Aspis appears to have malfunctioned. She can edit her own DNA on the fly, make herself stronger, improve her eyesight, move faster. It could be the genetic breakthrough of the millenium, but only if she can figure out how it works. And manage to stay ahead of everyone else who wants this new secret, and dont care if she dies as a result. Chased by Aspis, Darkome and the government, her new skills may be the only way Inara has to survive... but they may cost her everything, including her humanity...

Jean le Flambeur es un delincuente post-humano, ladrón de mentes, timador y embaucador. Aunque su pasado es un misterio, los ecos de sus proezas resuenan por toda la Heterarquía: desde la incursión en los Cerebrozeus del Sistema Interior, a los que sustrajo sus pensamientos, al robo de las valiosas antiguedades terrestres de la aristocracia de las Ciudades Errantes de Marte. Si, Jean era el mejor... hasta que cometio un error. Ahora esta condenado a enfrentarse a innumerables copias de si mismo en las inagotables versiones de la Prision de los Dilemas... una rutina de muerte, desercion y cooperacion que se vera truncada por la llegada de la Perhonen, la aracnonave de Mieli, quien le ofrecera la oportunidad de recuperar la libertad y los poderes de su antiguo ser a cambio de completar el unico golpe que siempre se le ha resistido. El ladron cuantico es una deslumbrante novela de ciencia-ficcion dura ambientada en el futuro lejano de nuestro sistema solar. Una historia de atracos poblada por extravagantes post-humanos movidos, no obstante, por impulsos tan eternos como la traicion, la venganza o los celos. Un debut espectacular. "Para empezar a hacerse una idea del talento de Hannu Rajaniemi habria que implantar la destreza para la fisica experimental de Greg Egan en una version finlandesa mejorada de Alastair Reynolds con la habilidad literaria de Ted Chiang. Se me puso la piel de gallina mientras la leia, y opino que Hannu revolucionara la cf