Kvantový zloděj – Rajaniemi Hannu (2012)

Jean le Flambeur is a posthuman criminal, mind thief, con man and swindler. His origins are shrouded in mystery, but the entire Heterarchy knows his exploits, from breaking into the giant brains of the inner planets and stealing their own thoughts to taking rare Earth antiquities from the nobility of mobile Martian cities. Then Jean makes one mistake. He is sentenced to a stay in a dilemmatic prison, a virtual rehabilitation facility run by the axelrod archons, where he plays endless variations of a game-theoretical puzzle against countless copies of himself. His daily routine of death, betrayal and cooperation is turned upside down by the arrival of Mieli and her spider ship Perhonen. She offers him the chance to regain his lost freedom and the abilities of his former self, in exchange for carrying out the one heist that did not quite go as planned. This hard science-fiction novel is set in the distant future of our solar system and is also an action-packed crime story filled with bizarre posthuman characters whose actions are driven by thoroughly human motives of betrayal, revenge and jealousy.