Sneak Peek for Fractal Noise

by Christopher Paolini

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. Download a FREE sneak peek today!

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.

50 pages, ebook

Published March 7, 2023

About the author

Christopher Paolini was born in Southern California and has lived most of his life in Paradise Valley, Montana. He published his first novel, Eragon, in 2003 at the age of nineteen, and quickly became a publishing phenomenon. His Inheritance Cycle—Eragon and its three sequels—have sold nearly 40 million copies worldwide. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars was his first adult novel.

Visit Paolini.net and Fractalverse.net for the latest news about this project and follow Christopher on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok.

Reviews

[Jodi · Rating 2 out of 5]

I just couldn't get into this book. I have read one of his earlier ones and really liked it, but this one is just dragging. I have too many things to do and books I'd like to read to try and push through the boredom that I feel when reading this little teaser. I hope the rest of the book is good, but I won't be able to tell you one way or the other because I put it in my Did Not Finish category.

[Skadams9038 Adams · Rating 2 out of 5]

Speaker? Noise?

Too much like a black whole to me. There was nothing to draw you in... Other than the empathy to the characters and their reasons for doing what they do seems a bi thin. Maybe it gets better in the rest of the book. Not what I expected from this Author.

[Lauren Strickland · Rating 1 out of 5]

Seemed so pointless. There was no real ending, nothing was answered. I felt like I wasted my time making it to the end.

[Brian Grouhel · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really liked this book. The author has found an anomoly that on a far distant planet has not been seen before and smacks of other sentient life. The fact that that the discoverers are part of a commercial enterprize and need to make a profit is still interesting. However once the commander of the ship decides to send an away team to investigate the anomoly (a fifty Kilo wide hole in the ground) that emits a radio pulse kick starts the adventure! The ship is full of many tech/science people but only four are picked to go down to the surface and try to investigate. Alex, Chen, Talia and Pushkin were picked to go investigate. Now the fact that crew interactions have led to interesting challenges between members of the away team, once they are on the ground it becomes a matter of survival.

It is not so much a science fiction story although it is, but to me so much more a human interaction tale. I already know what you might be thinking. Just another one of those stories. But there is a twist........Not Every One Gets Out Alive................And Not Who You
Thought!

[Damian · Rating 1 out of 5]

If you are looking for a true prequel to To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, this is not it! It may be based in the same universe but it far from interesting and there is little character development. It is based on a dream the author had, I would suggest the next time he has a dream to roll over and forget about.

[Brett Wills · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very tedious. Paolini tells a tale of a tedious expedition. If his goal was to capture tedium, he did so brilliantly, but it makes for terrible reading. I thought the Eragon series was amazing, but I don’t recommend this book.

[SteveRv · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is just the start of the book but I was bored. A lot of writing about the internal thought Las of the protagonist that I could care less about