FRACTAL NOISE BY CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI

Fractal Noise is a 2023 sci-fi prequel novel by Christopher Paolini set in the "[Fractalverse]" universe, exploring the origin of the "Anomaly" mentioned in his 2020 novel To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. It tells the story of a small team trekking across the uninhabited planet Talos VII to examine a mysterious, artificial 50-kilometer wide, perfectly circular hole.