The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur, #1)

by Hannu Rajaniemi

tall, graceful, Kingdom-era villas

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red lights districts,

light

She says it’s an inspiration on something she’s working on,

inspiration for

Are you visiting?

'

I don’t need to hit you, the ship says. I have lasers. I’ll

Nice.

‘Wait.’ ‘Look. I’m sorry I escaped.

Same speaker, so no closing quotation mark for first para

I have time to all those who serve me,

time for

The next day it is Sol Martius, and as always, Isidore goes to see his father in the land of the dead.

This is the kind of book where you can get a sentence like this.

whom you already met.’ ‘I understand it is rare

Same speaker

she has good taste. Perhaps she picked it up from me.

Lovely bit of characterization for this egotist.

sit back start going through the society pages.

back and

The commlink shows me the ship a dot,

ship as a

It feels like something is missing, and realises that

He feels

a few young Martians who have seen everything, wearing perpetual expressions of being unimpressed.

Humans' conditions change, but human nature doesn't.

sharp, electric kisses

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‘You already did you worst.

your worst

But the faint foglet halo around whatever the creature wearing Paul’s shape tells her that violence would be useless.

is wearing

we are going to the same direction.’

in the same

golden, late afternoon sunlight

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with bared-down physics

pared