The Fractal Prince continues that story and is set in that same post-human existence, as well as re-introducing us to a number of the same characters which haunted the pages of The Quantum Thief, including its main protagonist, the thief Jean Le Flambeur. Rajaniemi took many of the themes found in the books of writers such as Charles Stross and David Zindell, but spun them in a much more delicate gossamer web which was a delight to explore. The Quantum Thief offered a marvellous and incredibly seamless view of a future human race which had scattered across the Solar System but which had also delved inward, splintering into a number of different forms as it pursued various post-human futures.
At the time I wrote that the novel was “that rarest of rare birds” - a first novel by a debut author which is a joy to read and helps take the science fiction genre in general forward. I gave very high praise to the debut novel by Hannu Rajaniemi’s debut science fiction novel The Quantum Thief after it was released back in 2010. However, it’s still a worthy follow-up, and readers are best advised to continue onto the end for a very satisfying conclusion to this middle book in the series. Review The Fractal Prince isn’t quite as spellbinding as The Quantum Thief, the extremely highly regarded first novel in Finnish author Hannu Rajaniemi’s post-human Jean Le Flambeur science fiction series.
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