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The Causal Angel

Written by: Hannu Rajaniemi
Narrated by: Roger Wayne
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With his infectious love of storytelling in all its forms, his rich characterization, and his unrivalled grasp of cutting-edge science, Hannu Rajaniemi has swiftly set a new benchmark for science fiction in the twenty-first century. Rajaniemi's future is one in which quantum effects can be manipulated by the powerful to unknowable ends; an era in which some are gods and billions of others are enslaved for the processing power of their brains; where in the inner Solar System, the once-human Sobornost endlessly iterate themselves in vast, planet-sized guberniyas, while casually running experiments on the photosphere of the sun.

In this world, Jean le Flambeur has broken out of a virtual prison and, later, into the mind of a living god. Now his one-time rescuer, the warrior Mieli, is a prisoner herself. To get her back, Jean will need tools: A quantum pyramid scheme, a pair of physical bodies, a nugget of computronium, a bunch of entangled EPR pairs, and a few very special hydrogen bombs. Jean le Flambeur, gentleman adventurer, is back. The solar system will tremble from one end to the other before he's done.

©2014 Hannu Rajaniemi (P)2014 Tantor Adventure Cyberpunk Fiction Science Fiction Space Opera Solar System
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A wonderful, fitting end to the trilogy that wraps up many questions left unanswered -- whether the reader noticed them earlier or not -- by the previous books. Unfortunately, the entire experience was marred by the new narrator's pronunciation of every... single... name. There is almost no noun in this performance that is not pronounced differently from the narrator of the previous books, and I found each instance incredibly grating.

Great Book, Awful Narration

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