The Quantum Thief

Slow pacing.

A skillful thief is imprisoned in a high tech jail controlled by an AI which idea of rehabilitation involves killing its prisoners over and over again, until they are fit to go back to society.

It seems that it is their mind that is upload to a virtual prison, but they feel the same. The AI supposedly can read their thoughts, because after all, they're just uploads in “the matrix”.

The prison is inescapable, yet, someone manages to rescue him in order to secure his services. His rescuer takes him to her ship, a spaceship controlled by a sentient AI.

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