The Fractal Prince
Ratings18
Average rating4.2
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Ratings18
Average rating4.2
"The good thing is, no one will ever die again. The bad thing is, everyone will want to." A physicist receives a mysterious paper. The ideas in it are far, far ahead of current thinking and quite, quite terrifying. In a city of "fast ones," shadow players, and jinni, two sisters contemplate a revolution. And on the edges of reality a thief, helped by a sardonic ship, is trying to break into a Schrödinger box for his patron. In the box is his freedom. Or not. Jean de Flambeur is back. And he's running out of time. In Hannu Rajaniemi's sparkling follow-up to the critically acclaimed international sensation The Quantum Thief, he returns to his awe-inspiring vision of the universe...and we discover what the future held for Earth. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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WooHoo! Another high tech slalom ride. The plot thickens. An excellent continuation of the first novel.
Like the first one, I started out annoyed by all the unexplained nomenclature. And then like the first, about halfway through I caught myself fully invested in the story and not noticing the strange words. Finally, like the first one, the ending doesn't feel as resonant as it should because when everything comes to a head I drown in the made up words which take over. Still quite enjoyable.
The second in Rajaniemi's Flambeau trilogy. I read the three as one story. And my comments about #1, The Quantum Thief, also apply here.
The first line of the book: "That night, Matjek sneaks out of his dream to visit the thief again." Once again it begins with a 'what on earth does that mean?' line, and continues the same throughout.
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3 primary booksJean le Flambeur is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2010 with contributions by Hannu Rajaniemi.
