Hannu Rajaniemi

Hannu Rajaniemi: Collected Fiction

Jacket Description/Flap:"Hard to admit, but I think he's better at this stuff than I am."--Charles Stross, author of Accelerando Inside the firewall, the city is alive. Buildings breathe, cars attack, angels patrol, hyperintelligent pets rebel. Hannu Rajaniemi ("The Quantum Thief)" is always on the cutting edge. His postapocalyptic, postcyberpunk, and posthuman tales are full of extraordinary beings and unpredictable optimism. With his remarkable agility at merging science with storytelling, Rajaniemi makes the impossible possible--or even probable. Rajaniemi's much-anticipated first collection contains seventeen stories, with two original tales, a neurofiction experiment, and his Twitter microfiction. Journeying deep into inner and outer space, he asks us, how will human nature evolve when the only limit to desire is creativity? What happens when the distinction between humans and gods is as small as nanomachines--or as large as the universe? So whether you think the next big leap in technology might be genetic engineering, unlimited energy, or space travel, know this: Hannu Rajaniemi the arbiter of what happens "after."Review Quotes:"A storytelling skill rarely found from even the most experienced authors."--"Library Journal" "Writing that's striking, evocative.... Thoughtful, hard, densely realised and highly patterned, there's nothing quite like it in contemporary SF"--"The Guardian" "Rajaniemi is a virtuoso idea-smith, with a flair for stylish imagery and clever literary architecture."--"Strange Horizons" "With his challenging, intellectual high-wire-balancing-act novels, Hannu Rajaniemi is definitely a body thief supreme."--"Barnes & Noble.com" On "The Quantum Thief" "Spectacularly and convincingly inventive, assured and wholly spellbinding: one of the most impressive debuts in years." --"Kirkus Reviews," starred review "A stellar debut." --"Publishers Weekly," starred review "The best first SF novel I've read in years. Hard to admit, but I think he's better at this stuff than I am." --Charles Stross "Rajaniemi has spectacularly delivered on the promise that this is likely to be the most important SF novel we'll see this year." --"Locus"Biographical Note: Hannu Rajaniemi, author of "The Quantum Thief," "The Fractal Prince," and "The Causal Angel" was born in Finland and completed his doctorate in Mathematical Physics at the University of Edinburgh. His works have received Finland's top science fiction honor, the Tahtivaeltaja Award, as well as the John W. Campbell Award for the best first science fiction novel in the United States. Rajaniemi lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, and will be moving to San Francisco, California in 2015. Review Quotes: "Rajaniemi combines incredible technological expertise with such a vast imagination that many of his stories leave me overwhelmed by the worlds he creates. This collection demonstrates his breadth as well, involving everything from his invention of neurofiction to his stories of algorithmic romance to his tales that invoke ancient Finnish gods. Whatever the genre or subject, Rajaniemi's stories are guaranteed to be interesting, unique, and utterly captivating. If a science fiction author's job is to "think of impossible things," then I can't imagine anyone who does it better."--"Bookaneer" "Nano-jacked super-beings, carnivorous emergent technologies, the doors of perception yanked wide and almost off their hinges.... Hannu Rajaniemi has a deserved reputation as the very hardest of Hard SF writers, but his range is far wider and far warmer. From stories of tech-driven future nightmare to eerie Finnish mythscapes rewired, quirky surreal mood pieces and experimental fiction genuinely worthy of the name, Rajaniemi writes fiction coded for the bleeding edge of modernity and yet rooted in age-old human imperatives; at the beating heart of these tales is a single concept--the ache of the human heart and the courage it takes to live with it, in this era or any other. So if you thought Hard SF was sterile stuff, lacking in human affect, think again--put the barrel of Rajaniemi's fiction in your mouth and blow your mind."--Richard Morgan, author of "Altered Carbon and The Dark Defiles" "SF and Rajaniemi's fiction in particular impart a sense of glamour, otherness, and estrangement.... the best stories are up there with the best."--"Booklikes" "An excellent and versatile collection.... If you want originality, creativity, imagination and style from your stories, you can't go wrong by reading these stories."--"Risingshadows" Praise for Hannu Rajaniemi "A storytelling skill rarely found from even the most experienced authors."--"Library Journal" "Writing that's striking, evocative.... Thoughtful, hard, densely realised and highly patterned, there's nothing quite like it in contemporary SF"--"The Guardian" "Rajaniemi is a virtuoso idea-smith, with a flair for stylish imagery and clever literary architecture."--"Strange Horizons" "With his challenging, intellectual high-wire-balancing-act novels, Hannu Rajaniemi is definitely a body thief supreme."--"Barnes & Noble.com" On "The Quantum Thief" "Spectacularly and convincingly inventive, assured and wholly spellbinding: one of the most impressive debuts in years." --"Kirkus," starred review "A stellar debut." --"Publishers Weekly," starred review "The best first SF novel I've read in years. Hard to admit, but I think he's better at this stuff than I am." --Charles Stross "Rajaniemi has spectacularly delivered on the promise that this is likely to be the most important SF novel we'll see this year." --"Locus" Review Citations:

Publishers Weekly 05/04/2015 (EAN 9781616961923, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Rajaniemi, Hannu Born and raised in Finland, HANNU RAJANIEMI lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he is a founding director of a financial consultancy, ThinkTank Maths. He is the holder of several advanced degrees in mathematics and physics. Multilingual from an early age, he writes his science fiction in English. He is the author of "The Quantum Thief", " The Fractal Prince" and "The Causal Angel".