 Hello everybody, this is Keith at 32nd sci-fi at the fabulous 50th Street Studios this week. I'm going to tell you about a book called the quantum thief by Hanu Ryan. Yami a Finnish author living in the UK But first let me tell you about what I'm doing at 50th Street studio I stream over there several times a week every Friday morning at 8 a.m. Pacific I do a live science discussion show where we watch old documentaries every Saturday morning at 10 a.m. Pacific I host a show called bad Saturday morning where we watch bad Saturday morning cartoons and every Saturday evening at 6 p.m. Pacific we watch an excellent movie and Coming up Thanksgiving Day Starting at midnight on November 25th. I will start a 24-hour marathon of All the bad movies that we've shown during our various bad movie marathons from midnight to midnight all day Thanksgiving Here's the address. Hope to see you there. Okay now about the quantum thief This is one of those things you hear me say this Fairly often these days, but I really don't know how to describe this book. I would say if I only had one sentence, I would say this is Cyberpunk it's not written in a cyberpunk style. It has that exciting post-human Action-oriented the kind of thing about it, but it's not written in that traditional cyberpunk style, which I don't like Which made the book readable and very enjoyable for me. Let me Read to you the blurb from the back of the book that I had. Okay, here's here's this will give you an idea Okay, the novel is set in a post-human future solar system Jean de Flembourg is a legendary thief who has been prisoned in a Dilemma prison a virtual jail of the Sobernost Created by the Archons themselves the creation of the engineer of souls During an unsuccessful encounter with the Alda Fector He is sprung from his prison in a Neptunian Trojan built by Miehli a warrior from the Oort cloud and taken to her ship the Pahonin There he finds out that his freedom comes with a price He must return to his old criminal ways to steal something from Miehli's employer the Pellegrini You you get the idea half the words in this book are made up But that didn't interfere with my enjoyment of it. It was like I said before very exciting very fast-moving it in this future world that Hanyu has created earth has been ruined people are living on Mars are trying to and people's lives are So that their physical lives are so intertwined with their virtual lives That life is is almost Magic and much of the excitement of the book comes from the slow Unfolding of our understanding of how this world works and where people actually are and what they're actually doing With each other and of course the guy is a thief One reviewer describes Jean de Flembourg as a post-human criminal mind burglar Confidence artist and trickster Here's another description In a post-singularity solar system slowly being eaten by a community of uploaded minds Mars has remained independent and unique thanks to its extreme attitude of privacy All memory is externally stored and encrypted Here one person describes it as an old-fashioned pulp adventure taking its cues and equal measure from retro detective stories and superhero comic books Redressed in the most lavish post-human art direction. All of those descriptions are correct I would say what it comes down to is that I would recommend it. I thought it was very exciting So, okay. See you next time Thank you for watching Please become a sponsor follow the link on screen and in the description below where you can make a one-time payment or Become a monthly donor. Thank you again and goodbye