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His work only interrupted when he becomes father to the son he has longed for for twenty years

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The Quantum Thief is a dazzling hard SF novel set in the solar system of the far future - a heist novel peopled by bizarre post-humans but powered by very human motives of betrayal

Now many years later Eve Green is waiting for the birth of her own child

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