I've read other stand alone novels in the Commonwealth Saga (there are 7 total, with an 8th on the way) and I absolutely love the universe Peter Hamilton has created. This is the first of the saga, not counting a prequel that doesn't even need to be read to follow the timeline. Hamilton's writing...
Having read books one and two I was forced to read book 3 in order to see how it all worked out. Now I know.Same criticisms as before just adding that I couldn't be bothered to read in detail all of the descriptions of the fire fights I just assumed there was a lot of flashes and bangs. I found t...
Much like the previous book, I went back and forth between liking and being annoyed by The Temporal Void. All of my complaints about The Dreaming Void are mostly still here. However, there is noticeably more time spent on the "dream" characters. To the point where I was wondering why the autho...
Wow, that was a thick book.Not long from now, humanity develops both instantaneous space travel via wormholes and immortality and spreads throughout the stars in a sort of timeless utopia where the 21st century seems to stretch into eternity. there are just two blips in this nirvana: The mysterio...
This was my first foray into the writing of Peter F. Hamilton, and following this experience I can definitely say I'll be reading more of him in the future.My favourite story by far is the first one in the book, 'Watching Trees Grow', which follows a murder solved over the course of several centu...
J'ai rarement eu un avis aussi mitigé sur un bouquin. Mais avant d'aller plus loin, un rapide résumé ne peut pas faire de mal. Dans un récit structuré par les flashbacks sur la vie et la carrière de Lawrence Newton, héros supposé de cette histoire, l'auteur nous conte ses mésaventures sur une pla...
“The Confederation Handbook” is written by Peter F. Hamilton and was published in 2000. This book is a vital guide to the “Night’s Dawn Trilogy”.The Night’s Dawn Trilogy is a masterpiece a Peter F. Hamilton as he constructed a complete universe, as background to tell his amazing story. In order ...
Book Review of Judas Unchained (Ass End of The Commonwealth Saga, by Peter F. Hamilton)In a spirit of full disclosure, I think of myself as a rather lazy person. So it should come as a bit of a surprise to me (and you, if you know me) that I am inspired, nay, compelled to submit a review of Judas...
Auch “Die Nano-Blume” ist eine rasante Mischung aus Detektivkrimi und Science-Fiction, ein Thriller aus der nahen Zukunft, in dem auch Aliens ein Wörtchen mitzureden haben.Dies ist auch der Abschlussband der "Mindstar-Trilogie", mit der sich der Peter F. Hamilton seinen Platz im Science-Fiction-G...
"TL,DR. There are very few SF stories that justify more than 120,000 words."- Jo Walton's blog on Hugo Nominees: 1998Jo Walton is the best sf books reviewer extant (IMO), as an author she is no slouch either. Unfortunately for her The Reality Dysfunction is the exception that proves the rule, th...
As I've often stated I'm not that well-read on the SF side of speculative fiction. Not having a hard science bone in my body, made me think I wouldn't understand the science in Science Fiction, so I stayed safely on the Fantasy side of things. After discovering last year that actually I rather li...
This is a book of short stories aimed at providing the social and technological background of the The Night's Dawn trilogy. The stories stand well by themselves, although they are at different levels, thus I will provide my ratings for each one separately:Sonnie's Edge: 3/5An introductory story t...
The Dreaming Void is the start of a new trilogy that takes place in the same universe as Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained, but thousands of years later. Like those books, it's a huge, epic space opera full of powerful aliens, amazing tech, and galaxy-threatening perils, and like those books, I ...