The Fractal Prince

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• macmac · Feb 16, 2015 · Recommends

  …"Kill Decision" and "Influx" by Daniel Suarez. "The Martian" by Andy Weir. Anything by Neal Stephenson, especially "Reamde: A Novel" and "Cryptonomicon". Anything by Hannu Rajaniemi, especially "The Fractal Prince".

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• mr_overalls · Jul 18, 2018 · Recommends

  One Finnish scifi author that I've particularly enjoyed is Hannu Rajaniemi, who has a PhD in Physics and writes excellent speculative novels like The Quantum Thief and The Fractal Prince. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannu_Rajaniemi

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• mirimir · Aug 30, 2017 · Recommends

  …reading lately is mostly Joe Abercrombie and Richard Morgan, so she typically cringes ;) However, I have managed to interest her in Neal Stephenson (Diamond Age, and maybe D.O.D.O.) and Hannu Rajaniemi (Fractal Prince trilogy).

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• jauntywundrkind · Dec 6, 2025 · Recommends

  …flare up in thinking about sci-fi moving cities/neighborhoods again. Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312 with a Mars city going around the terminator (not super well described tbh but fun), Hannu Rajaniemi's Fractal Prince (book #2 of Jean le Flambeur's series) with a reconfiguring Mars city wandering around on stilts (iirc). We live in an age with so many new malleable systems, but so much of the world about us is fixed…

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• Agentlien · Sep 30, 2026 · Recommends

  I've been reading the books by Hannu Rajaniemi. Finished The Quantum Thief a while ago and now reading The Fractal Prince. It's some of the best sci-fi I've read. Very interesting depiction of technology and I love how the different types of tech and societal structures are not explained, just showcased and talked about…

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• photochemsyn · Jun 1, 2022 · Mentions

  Reads like science fiction becoming reality. In particular, the science fiction series by Hannu Rajaniemi (Quantum Thief, Fractal Prince, Causal Angel) has 'natural computational substrates' as one of its themes. This all seems to exist on the borderland between discrete and continuous mathematics, which is a pretty fascinating topic.…

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• ColinWright · Sep 21, 2026 · Mentions

  …interesting story about getting his first book published. I should write it up sometime ... in my Copious Free Time ... This comment box is too small to contain the story. * The Quantum Thief * The Fractal Prince * The Causal Angel Actually, most of the story is on his WikiPedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannu_Rajaniemi

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• skorgu · Dec 23, 2015 · Mentions

  …{Dauntless,Fearless,Courageous} (third one incomplete) - Superintelligence - Nexus, Crux (incomplete) - Another Fine Myth - The Annihilation Score - The Man with the Golden Torc, Daemons are Forever - The Fractal Prince (incomplete) - Crooked - Ancillary Mercy - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - The Traitor Baru Cormarant - Excession - Hive Mind - Seveneves

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• photochemsyn · Oct 14, 2022 · Mentions

  I just read through the recent Hannu Rajanaemi series (Quantum Thief, Fractal Prince, Causal Angel) which is all about that kind of thing. The Iain M. Banks novel "The Algebraist" is set mostly in the atmosphere of a gas giant planet and is pretty hard-sci-fi in outlook and plot.

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• Vecr · Sep 8, 2024 · Mentions

  I'm thinking of slightly more esoteric concerns, in recent simulations I've seen some evidence that something like the All Defector from The Fractal Prince, a book in a series recommended in this thread, might be possible.

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