The Jean Le Flambeur Series (5 books in series)
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review 1: A universe to itself. (Or more.) It takes two readings to understand it.I've read several hundred sci-fi books. This is the first I've felt the urge (not just need...) to read twice, back-to-back.During the first time through, I was pretty thoroughly lost nearly the entire way. ...
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review 1: 5 days to read less than 300 pages?! This snail's pace is atypical for me. It felt as though I fell through the white rabbit's wormhole! Reality as we know it is NOTHING like it is in The Causal Angel. It left me frequently struggling for my bearings. While that was cool previous...
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review 1: Uhmm... I don't know what kind of mushrooms grow in the forests of Scotland, but definitely different than in the Finnish forests. Once I picked it up, this book was hard to read and hard not to read at the same time. Roughly after every other chapter I was tempted to give up, fr...
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review 1: A joy of a read, the Fractal Prince is the second part to the wonderful story of Jean Le Flambeur. Rajaniemi has crafted a second or third level tale with great care and gusto, full of nods and waves to Sci Fi classics. In this case, it is Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothe...
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review 1: The last book of Rajaniemi's trilogy just has a little too much of the least plausible parts of the previous books. The All-Defector never really made sense outside of the game-theory joke that is the Dilemma Prison; the Aun never really made sense, period; and this book's innov...