This book was so different than the other books Christopher Paolini has written. This one is very introspective and thought provoking and deep character study. It looks at conditions and how people react to those conditions as well as delving into grief, but finding a reason - any reason - to continue on. I enjoyed this a lot and highly recommend it to anyone.

Woahhh that was something else. This book is crazy and awesome! If you love science-fiction than look no further and read it!

If you're looking for something that's like Call of the Wild, Moby Dick, Waiting for Godot, or Old Man and the Sea, but put it in space? This is the book for you. If you like "man vs environment" plotlines, this is for you. If you really enjoy reading commercial literary fiction and you want to branch out into sci-fi but you're still looking for something familiar that spends the majority of the book focusing on Big Feelings About the Meaning of Life rather than a plot... This is for you. Fractal Noise has a lot to say about grief, the purpose of life, and finding one's way out of being in a bad headspace while offering hope after the bleakness.

Paolini burst onto the literary scene when he published his first work of fiction when still a teenager. Now, he writes beautiful and complex science fiction. Fractal Noise is set in the same universe as To Sleep in a Sea of Stars and kicks off with the ship and crew of the Adamura discovering a space anomaly on an uninhabited planet. It appears to be a hole of some sort, but it’s clearly not natural. A team sets out to discover who built this hole and why. Some are thrilled to have the chance to explore this phenomenon and others feel very differently. What poses a bigger threat to the crew, the anomaly, or themselves?