Not that they don’t stand well on their own. Normally each of these books would be reviewed individually, but given that The Quantum Thief is about a post-human who goes by the nom de guerre or possibly nom de plume depending on the situation who tells stories in order to steal things, and The Fractal Prince is about the same man telling the story of him telling stories to steal things in order to steal other things – it gets all very meta – it can be hard to separate the books out. The third, The Causal Angel is released this July 15 from Tor in the United States and July 17 from Gollancz in the UK.
Linguaphiles in particular will be delighted by The Quantum Thief and The Fractal Prince from Hannu Rajaniemi, whose last name takes some practice to say if you’re not a native Finnish speaker. The John Le Flambeur series, or at least the two books released so far, are stories for those who love stories.
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