The best space opera books, series and games according to Christopher Paolini
Christopher Paolini, author of Fractal Noise
Christopher Paolini
Tor
I wrote Fractal Noise because of a dream.
During it, I saw a rocky planet turning endlessly in the depths of space. On the planet, three lone people were trekking across a barren plain towards an impossibly large hole. I heard the hole pulse like a massive speaker, and in the sound I sensed a fractal pattern that wound deeper and deeper within itself. An infinity of detail from a finite beginning.
The vision was so powerful that, when I …