Fractal Prince

''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 Schrodinger 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 '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.'