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Jan posted a review at 2009-11-12 11:53:36.
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The best SF ever. Like 50 novels in one. Amazing!
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Mauricio posted a review at 2009-09-19 13:30:09.
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Got the audiobook from Audible and loved it. Huge story with great intergalactic intrigue.
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Mauricio posted a review at 2009-08-08 02:19:32.
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Really liked it. Gigantic space opera. If you are into long stories this is will deliver, it's actually 2 books that you'll read to finish the story and at 800 pages I opted for the audiobook which was really enjoyable. Complex plot lines on a huge galactic scale.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-06-12 19:31:41.
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"Evolution usually means that the species which break out of their planetary environment have some inbuilt social or biological mechanism for restraining their prehistory savagery."Space opera SF with very imaginative multi-world, multi-plotline weave--could have used an edit for length.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-06-03 18:35:24.
(Language: English)
Another ripping yarn from Peter Hamilton. Probably better than Night's Dawn
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A reader posted a review at 2009-04-15 16:51:58.
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Enjoyable from first to last. A huge book though that doesn't end here, you have to read the follow on Judas Unchained to get the ending..!
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Richard posted a review at 2009-04-15 03:49:25.
(Language: English)
With Pandora’s Star, Hamilton embarks on an 880-page deep space science fiction epic. In the year AD 2380 humanity has colonized over six hundred planets using a technology developed by two stoner student physicists called Wormholes. The society of the Intersolar Commonwealth is peaceful and wealthy, if plagued by an occasional attack by the Guardians of Selfhood. When the astronomer Dudley Bose observes the sudden disappearance of a star over a thousand light years away, the Commonwealth is anxious to discover what happened. In order to reach it they must build the first ever faster-than-light starship. The fact that something imprisoned an entire solar system with a massive force field does not bode humankind well at all. AD 2380 and the Commonwealth are both alien and strangely similar to our terran societies. Wormhole trains are the major mode of transport between planets, while rich enough people live for hundreds of years using genetic rejuvenation. Illustrious family enclaves, including the powerful Mandelas from South Africa, control entire planets. The author examines a richly inventive universe through the eyes of numerous characters on various planets, and builds his plot at a leisurely pace that allows us to get to grips with his expansive universe. It is a well-crafted novel, though some of the characters seem somewhat flat and some of the worlds over-simplified. In places it drags a bit and you’re left rather frustrated, but at no point did I feel I can chuck it aside. Is this taking suspense to the extreme? The author has obviously made certain trade-offs to present a comprehensive tale that does the many themes it explores justice. The stretch where Hamilton explores the evolution over time of a hostile alien intelligence that ultimately cloaks its star is an impeccable and thrilling piece of imaginative science and biology, and cleverly plants an “against the clock” element to the building of the FTL spaceship. This book had me quailing for more, and now, with more new SF under the belt, I realise exactly how exemplary this book is. I also finally have all three editions in hardback and can’t wait to get started at the beginning and end at the end, as Einstein once advised.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-03-17 03:42:52.
(Language: English)
Turgid. Flat characters lack credibility. Counting how many pages I actually ended up reading (after deciding to skip every ~20 lines), the book could be at least halved. Lots of pointless blah detailing train or car types, is it supposed to add realism? - it doesn't. Likewise descriptions of character's external appearance. Unfortunateley I bought it over Amazon on basis of readers reviews, if I'd read the first page I would have been immediately put off. Since then I note other people moaning about skimming it and having to buy the follow on; I wont bother.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-03-16 10:20:36.
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A great read - a big story. I'm enjoying Peter F. Hamilton. I will read the sequel - Judas Unchained.
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Roger posted a review at 2009-03-09 09:21:39.
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I am currently engrossed in this at the moment. Not since the Foundation Series by Issac Asimov have I been so taken with a take on future human colonization, and corresponding alien contact leading to a brilliant confrontation - complete with sex, lies and cyberspace. Though the prime alien species may have a little borg like thinking - it is in fact, so similar to early human conquest, that makes it believable - and the re-life concept is brilliant. Naturally, the super rich still rule - but there's a comic gusto to several characters who defy the logical themes usually found in such grand tales of galactic expansion - a must read for the purist.
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