Fractal Noise: A Fractalverse Novel (edition 2023)

by Christopher Paolini (Author)

Series: Fractalverse (2)

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Fiction. Science Fiction. HTML: A new blockbuster science fiction adventure from world-wide phenomenon and #1 New York Times bestseller Christopher Paolini, set in the world of New York Times and USA Today bestseller To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. *Instant New York Times* bestseller** July 25th, 2234: The crew of the Adamura discovers the anomaly. On the seemingly uninhabited planet Talos VII: a circular pit, 50 kilometers wide. Its curve not of nature, but design. Now, a small team must land and journey on foot across the surface to learn who built the hole and why. But they all carry the burdens of lives carved out on disparate colonies in the cruel cold of space. For some the mission is the dream of the lifetime, for others a risk not worth taking, and for one it is a desperate attempt to find meaning in an uncaring universe. Each step they take toward the mysterious abyss is more punishing than the last. And the ghosts of their past follow. The Fractalverse Series To Sleep in a Sea of Stars Fractal Noise At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. .… (more)

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Title:	Fractal Noise: A Fractalverse Novel
Authors:	Christopher Paolini (Author)
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As a short story, for in comparison to his other works it is short, this was a great read. I think that this book really shows that there comes point when life scrapes away all the façades we make, we are forced to realize who we actually are and if our beliefs match reality. I think this was a good read! (

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PolarBear117 | May 7, 2024 |

I really liked Paolini's first novel in his so called Fractalverse, "To Sleep in a Sea of Stars". But I absolutely hated this second entry. I almost think one star is too much but I just can't bring myself to rate it lower than Mary Gentle's "Architecture of Desire" which remains, to this day, the most singularly frustrating and infuriating book I've ever read. So one lone star it will be for this, Paolini's "Fractal Noise". This book is an unhappy, depressing slog, full of entirely unlikable characters, and an ending so anticlimactic it literally gave me a headache out of anger and disappointment. Spoiler alert: this is a story about four mentally unstable assholes walking for miles on an inhospitable alien planet just to stare at a giant hole in the ground. (

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irapearson | Feb 13, 2024 |

This psychodramatic novel presupposes that by 2234 we'll have faster-than-light travel, extra-solar colonies, mind uploading ("ship minds), aging reversal, and many other wonders. It tells of a group of scientists, afflicted with severe animosities toward each other, making an arduous and misery-laden journey across a newly surveyed exoplanet marked by a mammoth, mysterious, ultra-noisy, artifactual hole in its surface. Despite all its negativities, the story is quite suspenseful -- one might even say gripping.

fpagan | Nov 7, 2023 |

3.5 stars. A lot of misery for one character to find his purpose. Never learned a damned thing about the aliens. (

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EZLivin | Oct 12, 2023 |

2023 book #53. 2023. Four humans struggle across a hostile planet to investigate the giant hole they saw from space. After many words and much angst they find the hole and it's a big hole. What a waste of time this book was. (

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capewood | Oct 1, 2023 |

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Fiction. Science Fiction. HTML:

A new blockbuster science fiction adventure from world-wide phenomenon and #1 New York Times bestseller Christopher Paolini, set in the world of New York Times and USA Today bestseller To Sleep in a Sea of Stars.
Instant New York Times bestseller

July 25th, 2234: The crew of the Adamura discovers the anomaly.
On the seemingly uninhabited planet Talos VII: a circular pit, 50 kilometers wide.
Its curve not of nature, but design.
Now, a small team must land and journey on foot across the surface to learn who built the hole and why.
But they all carry the burdens of lives carved out on disparate colonies in the cruel cold of space.
For some the mission is the dream of the lifetime, for others a risk not worth taking, and for one it is a desperate attempt to find meaning in an uncaring universe.
Each step they take toward the mysterious abyss is more punishing than the last.
And the ghosts of their past follow.
The Fractalverse Series
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
Fractal Noise
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.