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5239833 No.5239833 [Reply] [Original]

>Otherwise, the fail will be epic, as the zoku like to say

>Then there was notch-cube grinding, improving the impact tolerances of Plates and Strips, sculpting a trollface on a fresh mountain range.

I thought I was reading Hannu Rajaniemi, not Tao Lin.

>> No.5240975

>you will never live on Planet Finland
>you will never share a sauna with space ninjas and be embarrassed about being naked in front of them

>> No.5242247

Did Mieli open the door to rescue Jean at the end? She better have, the bitch.

>> No.5244113

>>5240975
>you will never make a gogol of yourself so you'll never be lonely again

>> No.5244121

It's WoW guilds... IN SPACE.

I wish I remembered who recommended Rajaniemi to me, so I could just ignore all their future recommendations.

>> No.5244847

>>5244121
>ignoring someone with better taste than you

>> No.5246298

>>5239833
I just looked up that book on Goodreads and saw its a trilogy. Someone suggested book one of that series on here a few months ago.... The plot sounds like the movie "In Time" with Justin Timberlake... did they take the plot to make the movie or the other way around?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7562764-the-quantum-thief

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5246326

>>5246298
forgot pic

>> No.5246346

>>5246326
Well, The Quantum Thief was published a year earlier.

>In 2169, people are born genetically engineered with a digital clock on their forearm. When they turn 25 years old, they stop aging and their clock begins counting down from one year; when it reaches zero that person "times out" and dies instantly. Time has become the universal currency; it is used to pay for day-to-day expenses and can be transferred between people or capsules.

This has superficial similarities to Mars in The Quantum Thief, but isn't that similar in practice. In TQT, time is a very minor thing since people are revived eventually after they die, and most of the book is about the gevulot interactions, not the time currency.