TY - BOOK AU - Paolini,Christopher TI - Fractal noise T2 - Fractalverse SN - 9781250862488 : HRD AV - PS3616.A55 F73 2023 U1 - 813/.6 23/eng/20230420 PY - 2023/// CY - New York PB - Tor Publishing Group KW - Human-alien encounters KW - Fiction KW - Outer space KW - Exploration KW - Science fiction KW - lcgft KW - Novels N2 - "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 tolearn 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"-- ER -