By Hannu Rajaniemi
"The great thing is, nobody will ever die back. The undesirable factor is, each person will wish to."
A physicist gets a mysterious paper. the tips in it are some distance, a ways sooner than present pondering and really, fairly terrifying. In a urban of "fast ones," shadow avid gamers, and jinni, sisters examine a revolution.
And at the edges of fact a thief, helped by means of a sardonic send, is making an attempt to damage right into a Schrödinger field for his client. within the field is his freedom. Or not.
Jean de Flambeur is again. And he is operating out of time.
In The Fractal Prince, Hannu Rajaniemi's glowing follow-up to the significantly acclaimed overseas sensation The Quantum Thief, he returns to his awe-inspiring imaginative and prescient of the universe…and we find what the longer term held for Earth.
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