The Fractal Prince (Jean le Flambeur)
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (824 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0765336790 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Brandon Downey said Like Arabian Nights. It with some trepidation I downloaded my copy of the Fractal Prince. The world of the Quantum Thief was brilliantly executed, and so slyly construed as to make a Lupin-style fable possible even in a post-human world that I wondered if Hannu could keep the magic going for another bo. "Great series if you can keep up" according to Chuck Koesters. Lost a lot of sleep reading this series. Love the story and visuals. You need to have a loose concept of reality to follow the story - takes place in both Sim, (VIR) and meatspace sometimes at the same time!. A Beautifully-Written, Hard-to-Read Hard-SF Book. Patient Readers will be Rewarded. THE FRACTAL PRINCE is the follow-up to Hannu Rajaniemi's THE QUANTUM THIEF, and, like its predecessor, is a complex, fast-paced tale of gentleman thief Jean le Flambeur battling gods in a post-singularity world that only a mathematician or physicist will feel completely comfortable
He is the author of The Quantum Thief, The Fractal Prince and The Causal Angel.. Born and raised in Finland, HANNU RAJANIEMI lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he is a founding director of a financial consultancy, ThinkTank Maths. He is the holder of several advanced degrees in mathematics and physic
The ideas in it are far, far ahead of current thinking and quite, quite terrifying. And he's running out of time.In The Fractal Prince, 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.. In the box is his freedom. Or not.Jean de Flambeur is back. The bad thing is, everyone will want to."A physicist receives a mysterious paper. "The good thing is, no one will ever die again. 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
But, even now, Jean still doesn’t know exactly why he was busted out of prison, or what, precisely, he’s stolen. From Booklist If, after beginning this sequel to The Quantum Thief (2011), you find yourself wondering what the heck is going on here, don’t panic: Jean de Flambeur, the novel’s centerpiece, is wondering the same thing. Sprung (in the first novel) from a virtual prison by Mieli, a powerful woman who offers Jean his freedom in exchange for a service, he must return to his thieving ways and steal something for the pellegrini, a sort of godlike entity. To repay his debt, he must safecrack a Schrödinger box and release the god that might or might not be trapped inside. --David Pitt . Fans of the author’s popular debut novel, which mixed hard science with wild fantasy, will probably be lining up for this follow-up, which resolves some of the questions posed in The Quantum Thie