Mode · Book 2

Fractal Mode

by Piers Anthony

Published
1 January 1992
Pages
302
ISBN-13
9780246139023
Type
novel

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Cover of Fractal Mode

About this book

Fractal Mode followed a year later in 1992, the shortest of the four books at 302 pages. It continues Colene and Darius's journey directly from where Virtual Mode left off, introducing a new alternate reality with its own internally consistent physical or magical laws.

Its place in Mode

Fractal Mode is book 2 in the Mode series. It follows Virtual Mode. It is followed by Chaos Mode. See the full Mode reading order.

Colene, a suicidal teenage girl from Earth, discovers a portal into Proton/Phaze, the paired science-fiction-and-fantasy world at the center of Piers Anthony's Apprentice Adept series, and falls in love with Darius, a man trapped between realities. Anthony spins this connection into a new four-book arc that pushes the underlying premise of Apprentice Adept even further: rather than two linked worlds, the Mode series proposes an entire structure of alternate realities — 'modes' — each governed by different…

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