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* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins: In the end the Supra City Zokus are whisked to safety, Chen and the All-Defector are defeated... and Sobornost's primary opposition is gone, leaving the remaining Founders to do as they will with everyone who's left.]]
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* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins: TheBadGuyWins:[[spoiler: In the end the Supra City Zokus are whisked to safety, Chen and the All-Defector are defeated... and Sobornost's primary opposition is gone, leaving the remaining Founders to do as they will with everyone who's left.]]
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The second part of the trilogy, ''The Fractal Prince'', came out in late 2012. A physicist receives a mysterious paper. The ideas in it are far, far ahead of current thinking and quite, quite terrifying. In a city of fast ones, shadow players, and jinni, two sisters contemplate a revolution. And on the edges of reality, a thief, helped by a sardonic ship, is trying to break into a Schrödinger box for his patron. In the box is his freedom. Or not. Jean de Flambeur is back, and he’s running out of time.
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The second part of the trilogy, ''The Fractal Prince'', came out in late 2012. A physicist receives a mysterious paper. The ideas in it are far, far ahead of current thinking and quite, quite terrifying. In a city of fast ones, shadow players, and jinni, two sisters contemplate a revolution. And on the edges of reality, a thief, helped by a sardonic ship, is trying to break into a Schrödinger box for his patron. In the box is his freedom. Or not. Jean de le Flambeur is back, and he’s running out of time.
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* DungeonBasedEconomy: Sirr's main industry revolves around going into the ruins of Earth and finding artifacts to trade.
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* ArtificialHuman: Mieli isn't just a cyborg. She was actually never born but crafted by Pellegrini as a machine with some organic bits tossed in and her personality are various programmed traits to make her an excellent warrior, a tracker capable of hunting down Jean le Flambeur and loyal to the "goddess" Pellegrini.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: The Sobornost gave up on trying to create intelligence without sapience or make minds not based on the human cognitive architecture after they ended up creating the mindless, destructive insanity that was [[EldritchAbomination the Dragons]], which are now used only as terror weapons. Disturbingly, this means that every single system that the Sobornost uses is powered by a spliced, copy-pasted and mutilated version of an uploaded human mind.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: The Sobornost gave up on trying to create intelligence without sapience or make minds not based on the human cognitive architecture after they ended up creating the mindless, destructive insanity that was [[EldritchAbomination [[MechanicalAbomination the Dragons]], which are now used only as terror weapons. Disturbingly, this means that every single system that the Sobornost uses is powered by a spliced, copy-pasted and mutilated version of an uploaded human mind.
* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: The near-magical technology of the Zokus and Sobornost are that level and some of the societies have that mystical crystalline aesthetic.
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* MagicFromTechnology: In ''The Fractal Prince'', the inhabitants of Sirr couch their understanding of Wild Code in terms of Middle-Eastern stories, mythology, and mysticism.
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* MagicFromTechnology: In ''The Fractal Prince'', the inhabitants of Sirr couch their understanding of Wild Code in terms of Middle-Eastern stories, mythology, and mysticism. And technology in this time period is pretty much Clarke's 3rd Law, such as Sirr's flying carpets that appear seemingly out of nothing and the Zoku faction creating a solid item uniquely made from space-time.
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* PostCyberpunk: In 2060, the rich and multinational corporations are working on BrainUpload technology while the poor comfort themselves with high-fidelity virtual reality entertainment. Meanwhile MMO video game junkies are becoming a major power. But all that was in the past and the "present" is thousands of year after that time and the technology is so advanced it's transformed society into something well beyond cyberpunk definitions.
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* BilingualBonus[=/=]MeaningfulName: The Oortians speak the author's native tongue, Finnish. Mieli means "mind" and Sydän means "heart". Perhonen stands for "butterfly", or strictly speaking "Lepidopteran", encompassing both moths and butterflies.
** Not strictly a Bilingual Bonus, but [[spoiler:knowing that 'oubliette' is a word for a type of dungeon does make a reveal at the end less surprising.]]
** Not strictly a Bilingual Bonus, but [[spoiler:knowing that 'oubliette' is a word for a type of dungeon does make a reveal at the end less surprising.]]
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* BilingualBonus[=/=]MeaningfulName: The Oortians speak the author's native tongue, Finnish. Mieli means "mind" and Sydän means "heart". Perhonen stands for "butterfly", or strictly speaking "Lepidopteran", encompassing both moths and butterflies.
butterflies. Every other faction looked at in detail in the story also uses at least some elements of an existing language as their own, giving them a distinct identity.
** While Not strictly a Bilingual Bonus,but [[spoiler:knowing that 'oubliette' is a word for a type of dungeon does make a reveal at the end less surprising.]]
** While Not strictly a Bilingual Bonus,
** The name Sobornost comes from a Russian Orthodox word referring to spiritual harmony through unity. All the larger Sobornost vessels also use Russian names for government divisions or provinces.
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*** We later learn that Jean is a longtime fan of the Lupin stories, which implies that the choice of name was intentional in-universe, on Jean's part.
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*** We later learn that Jean is a longtime fan of the Lupin stories, which strongly implies that the choice of name was intentional in-universe, on Jean's part.
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** ''Causal Angel'' briefly features Notch-zoku that is devoted to building monuments and whose symbol is a [[VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} crudely carved man with a pickaxe]].
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** ''Causal Angel'' briefly features Notch-zoku that is devoted to building monuments megastructures out of tiny cubes and whose symbol is a [[VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} crudely carved man with a pickaxe]].
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** [[spoiler: And ''The Causal Angel'' ends the same way.]]
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** [[spoiler: And ''The Causal Angel'' ends the same way.]]]]
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The second part of the trilogy, ''The Fractal Prince'', came out in late 2012. A physicist receives a mysterious paper. The ideas in it are far, far ahead of current thinking and quite, quite terrifying. In a city of fast ones, shadow players, and jinni, two sisters contemplate a revolution. And on the edges of reality a thief, helped by a sardonic ship, is trying to break into a Schrödinger box for his patron. In the box is his freedom. Or not. Jean de Flambeur is back. And he’s running out of time.
The third and final installment, ''The Causal Angel'', came out in July 2014. After the events of The Fractal Prince, Jean le Flambeur and Mieli are separated. The two protagonists, each in their own way, struggle to decide where their loyalties lie and how to proceed in the catastrophically altered situation. Meanwhile, the Solar System is plummeting into an all-out war. The most powerful factions, the Sobornost and the Zoku, are gathering their forces and making their plays, while simultaneously being torn apart by internal strifes.
The third and final installment, ''The Causal Angel'', came out in July 2014. After the events of The Fractal Prince, Jean le Flambeur and Mieli are separated. The two protagonists, each in their own way, struggle to decide where their loyalties lie and how to proceed in the catastrophically altered situation. Meanwhile, the Solar System is plummeting into an all-out war. The most powerful factions, the Sobornost and the Zoku, are gathering their forces and making their plays, while simultaneously being torn apart by internal strifes.
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The second part of the trilogy, ''The Fractal Prince'', came out in late 2012. A physicist receives a mysterious paper. The ideas in it are far, far ahead of current thinking and quite, quite terrifying. In a city of fast ones, shadow players, and jinni, two sisters contemplate a revolution. And on the edges of reality reality, a thief, helped by a sardonic ship, is trying to break into a Schrödinger box for his patron. In the box is his freedom. Or not. Jean de Flambeur is back. And back, and he’s running out of time.
The third and final installment, ''The Causal Angel'', came out in July 2014. After the events ofThe ''The Fractal Prince, Prince'', Jean le Flambeur and Mieli are separated. The two protagonists, each in their own way, struggle to decide where their loyalties lie and how to proceed in the catastrophically altered situation. Meanwhile, the Solar System is plummeting into an all-out war. The most powerful factions, the Sobornost and the Zoku, are gathering their forces and making their plays, while simultaneously being torn apart by internal strifes.
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The third and final installment, ''The Causal Angel'', came out in July 2014. After the events of
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* BrokenBird: Mieli. She devoutly serves the Sobornost Founder Pellegrini to [[spoiler:to get the uploaded mind of her beloved Sydän back to her. ]]
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* BrokenBird: Mieli. She devoutly serves the Sobornost Founder Pellegrini to [[spoiler:to get the uploaded mind of her beloved Sydän back to her. her.]]
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* ClarksThirdLaw: Given that it's a post-singularity setting it's inevitable that borderline impossible things pop up, most blatantly the Kaminari Jewel and the Zoku Realm Gates. The Zoku in general seem to like to play up this aspect of their technology to cater to their personal aesthetics.
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* ClarksThirdLaw: Given that it's a post-singularity setting setting, it's inevitable that borderline impossible borderline-impossible things pop up, most blatantly the Kaminari Jewel and the Zoku Realm Gates. The Zoku in general seem to like to play up this aspect of their technology to cater to their personal aesthetics.
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** [[spoiler: Mars in ''The Causal Angel''. Serves as the Zoku Elders's NotSoHarmlessVillain moment.]]
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** [[spoiler: Mars in ''The Causal Angel''. Serves as the Zoku Elders's Elders' NotSoHarmlessVillain moment.]]
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* ApocalypseHow: A Class 4 and Class X happen before the story starts, with the Collapse wiping out or otherwise altering the entire Earth biosphere, and the Spike destroying Jupiter.
** [[spoiler: A Class 6 and two more Class X happen throughout the series - when everything on Earth gets eaten by the Dragons; when Mars is destroyed by the Great Game Zoku; and when Saturn is consumed by another Spike event in the climax of the series. And a second Class 6 happens when the Chen guberniya is wiped, depending on how exactly you count gogols and the guberniyas.]]
** [[spoiler: The hsien-kus were planning a different Class 6 on Earth to upload the entire planet into their guberniya, although it was going to be much more orderly and thought out than a typical example of the trope.]]
** [[spoiler: The All-Defector was planning a Class X-5 using the Kaminari Jewel.]]
** [[spoiler: A Class 6 and two more Class X happen throughout the series - when everything on Earth gets eaten by the Dragons; when Mars is destroyed by the Great Game Zoku; and when Saturn is consumed by another Spike event in the climax of the series. And a second Class 6 happens when the Chen guberniya is wiped, depending on how exactly you count gogols and the guberniyas.]]
** [[spoiler: The hsien-kus were planning a different Class 6 on Earth to upload the entire planet into their guberniya, although it was going to be much more orderly and thought out than a typical example of the trope.]]
** [[spoiler: The All-Defector was planning a Class X-5 using the Kaminari Jewel.]]
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* ApocalypseHow: A Class 4 and Class X happen before Before the story starts, with the Collapse wiping out or otherwise altering the entire Earth biosphere, and the Spike destroying Jupiter.
** [[spoiler:A Class 6 and two more Class X happen throughout the series - when Later, everything on Earth gets eaten by the Dragons; when Mars is destroyed by the Great Game Zoku; and when Saturn is consumed by another Spike event in the climax of the series. And a second Class 6 happens when the Chen guberniya is wiped, depending on how exactly you count gogols and the guberniyas.]]
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** [[spoiler: The hsien-kus were planning a different Class 6 on Earth to upload the entire planet into their guberniya, although it was going to be much more orderly and thought out than a typical example of the trope.]]
** [[spoiler: The All-Defector was planning a Class X-5 using the Kaminari Jewel.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The Oortians are descendents of Finns, while the Zoku date their history to [[spoiler:the Internet subcultures of the 21st century.]]
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The Oortians are descendents of Finns, while the Zoku date their history to [[spoiler:the the Internet subcultures of the 21st century.]] century.
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* InfoDrop: The author seems particularly averse to exposition, so the only hope a reader has to figure anything out about the setting is to piece all the disparate tidbits together. [[LoveItOrHateIt Depending on your disposition]], this is either part of the series' charm, or horribly frustrating.
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* InfoDrop: The author seems particularly averse to exposition, so the only hope a reader has to figure anything out about the setting is to piece all the disparate tidbits together. [[LoveItOrHateIt Depending on your disposition]], disposition, this is either part of the series' charm, or horribly frustrating.
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** [[spoiler: He later learns she's the Zadik he's been working with for years.]]
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** [[spoiler: He later learns she's the Zadik Tzaddik he's been working with for years.]]
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* PracticalCurrency: The currency on Mars is ''time''. When one's time as a Noble runs out, their mind gets put into a Quiet work body for a few years to earn more. Think [[XMeetsY community service meets forced labor]].
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* PracticalCurrency: The currency on Mars is ''time''. When one's time as a Noble runs out, their mind gets put into a Quiet work body for a few years to earn more. Think [[XMeetsY [[JustForFun/XMeetsY community service meets forced labor]].
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* ArabianNightsDays: The city of Sirr is a sci-fi interpretation of the trope. It is a great city built in the ruins of a fallen space station in the middle of the [[GreyGoo Wildcode Desert]]. Its inhabitants use technological flying carpets as their primary mode of transportation and bind Jinns, actually uploaded human minds living in the Wildcode, into jar-like miniature computers to use them as servitors. The theme of the place is essentially MagicFromTechnology.