Hannu Rajaniemi is a new name in science fiction, but hopefully he will stick around for awhile. Like a few other debut books this last year, there are a number of interesting ideas, but the story fails to stick together as a whole. I don’t think I’m asking for a lot, just a halfway decent plot and some characters that I actually care about. But too often, such as in Rajaniemi’s The Quantum Thief, there are a lot of cool ideas, but few characters I care about and not enough plot to interest me. So, let’s see what this book is about.

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