<DIV><P><I>“The good thing is, no one will ever die again. The bad thing is, everyone will want to.”</I></P><P>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.<BR>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.<BR><BR>Jean de Flambeur is back. And he’s running out of time.<BR><BR>In <I>The Fractal Prince,</I> Hannu Rajaniemi’s sparkling follow-up to the critically acclaimed international sensation <I>The Quantum Thief,</I> he returns to his awe-inspiring vision of the universe…and we discover what the future held for Earth.</DIV><DIV></DIV>