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Why does this article have the Outdated tag? What extra information needs to be added/updated? Euchrid ( talk) 22:05, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
I'm presently working on improving the two Supplements to the Jean le Flambeur novels, but I'm finding a good deal of interesting RS material on the novel itself. I'll make some notes here, and come back to incorporate some of this material later -- unless someone else does it first (hint, hint....)
"First I'll check off a list of possible influences -- or at least the authors of whom I though while reading the novel. The most obvious is Stross himself, and there are definite points of contact with, say, Accelerando. For me, the next writer I thought of was John C. Wright -- the virtual environments in The Quantum Thief recalled Wright's The Golden Age. The rich, somewhat exotic, Mars, and the emphasis on story, reminded me of Ian McDonald's Ares Express. And some of the overall flavor -- though not the prose -- somehow evoked Jack Vance as well. (And as long as I'm listing here, I might add that Adam Roberts adduced the Michael Moorcock of Dancers at the End of Time, and Adam Whitehead suggested Greg Egan and Scott Lynch.)"
"I already mentioned Zelazny who was a strong influence. Another author I really admire out of science fiction is Ian McDonald, who has this richness of language and imagination that I certainly try to emulate if not completely succeeding in that. There’s some Finnish authors, for example Mika Waltari who I like very much, who is the author of The Egyptian, and he has this sort of grasp of style as well. Apart from Zelazny and McDonald I can’t immediately name any direct science fictional influences.
Obviously there are a lot of deliberate homages to Maurice Leblanc, the creator of Arsène Lupin, his gentleman thief, and those stories as well as Arthur Conan Doyle, but in terms of drawing upon popular culture imagery, a lot of these things have become mythic..." -- Hannu Rajaniemi
"The Quantum Thief drew heavily upon some of the strange architectural ideas in Geoff Manaugh's wonderful blog BLDGBLOG – both for strange futuristic cities and architectural ideas applied to the mind. Frances A Yates's book The Art of Memory, on the method of memory palaces, was also an important influence."
-- Pete Tillman ( talk) 05:06, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
This plot summary is completely incomprehensible if one hasn't already read this work. I've read it several times but it still makes no sense. It's like it's purposely gibberish. Can anyone write a linear explanation of the storyline of this book? I'm sincerely interested in knowing what this work is about but reading this summary left me more confused than before I read it. Liz Read! Talk! 02:24, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
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Why does this article have the Outdated tag? What extra information needs to be added/updated? Euchrid ( talk) 22:05, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
I'm presently working on improving the two Supplements to the Jean le Flambeur novels, but I'm finding a good deal of interesting RS material on the novel itself. I'll make some notes here, and come back to incorporate some of this material later -- unless someone else does it first (hint, hint....)
"First I'll check off a list of possible influences -- or at least the authors of whom I though while reading the novel. The most obvious is Stross himself, and there are definite points of contact with, say, Accelerando. For me, the next writer I thought of was John C. Wright -- the virtual environments in The Quantum Thief recalled Wright's The Golden Age. The rich, somewhat exotic, Mars, and the emphasis on story, reminded me of Ian McDonald's Ares Express. And some of the overall flavor -- though not the prose -- somehow evoked Jack Vance as well. (And as long as I'm listing here, I might add that Adam Roberts adduced the Michael Moorcock of Dancers at the End of Time, and Adam Whitehead suggested Greg Egan and Scott Lynch.)"
"I already mentioned Zelazny who was a strong influence. Another author I really admire out of science fiction is Ian McDonald, who has this richness of language and imagination that I certainly try to emulate if not completely succeeding in that. There’s some Finnish authors, for example Mika Waltari who I like very much, who is the author of The Egyptian, and he has this sort of grasp of style as well. Apart from Zelazny and McDonald I can’t immediately name any direct science fictional influences.
Obviously there are a lot of deliberate homages to Maurice Leblanc, the creator of Arsène Lupin, his gentleman thief, and those stories as well as Arthur Conan Doyle, but in terms of drawing upon popular culture imagery, a lot of these things have become mythic..." -- Hannu Rajaniemi
"The Quantum Thief drew heavily upon some of the strange architectural ideas in Geoff Manaugh's wonderful blog BLDGBLOG – both for strange futuristic cities and architectural ideas applied to the mind. Frances A Yates's book The Art of Memory, on the method of memory palaces, was also an important influence."
-- Pete Tillman ( talk) 05:06, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
This plot summary is completely incomprehensible if one hasn't already read this work. I've read it several times but it still makes no sense. It's like it's purposely gibberish. Can anyone write a linear explanation of the storyline of this book? I'm sincerely interested in knowing what this work is about but reading this summary left me more confused than before I read it. Liz Read! Talk! 02:24, 1 February 2014 (UTC)