hannu rajaniemi

John Jarrold recommended this book to me as an example of new SF published in 2013. So I was keen to have a read and see what was deemed to be the most creative new Science Fiction of the decade. I was sorely disappointed. It starts with the most peculiar opening sequence I have yet had...

13th April 2011 07:11 PM Ian Sales The Quantum Thief, Hannu Rajaniemi Gollancz, 448pp, £12.99 The science fiction debut of 2010 was apparently Hannu Rajaniemi’s The Quantum Thief. Almost a year before it appeared, it was being said Gollancz had bought it based solely on a synopsis and a...

Jean le Flambeur gets up one morning and has to kill himself before his other self can kill him. Just another day in the Dilemma Prison. Rescued by the mysterious Mieli and her flirtatious spacecraft, Jean is taken to the Oubliette, the Moving City of Mars, to take part in crime and also to...