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Updated Sunday 15 May, 2011 12:18 PM |
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Pandora’s Star Peter F. Hamilton Peter F. Hamilton, probably the
best SF writer currently writing in Britain, returns this year with a new
two-part space opera. After the
slight flop of ‘Misspent Youth’ (which is a semi-prequel to this work),
Hamilton reassures his fans with this magnificent book and an all-new
magnificent universe. Excuse me for drooling. The Commonwealth, a human
society about five centuries from us, has been spreading across the stars by
wormholes. No one builds Starships at all.
One day, an astronomer observes a star simply vanish, hidden behind a
dyson sphere-style force field, which suggests that there is a super-powerful
alien race out there. The
commonwealth decides to build the first ever starship to investigate, and, once
they arrive, they see that there is an alien civilisation trapped inside the
bubble. As you can imagine from the
title, popping the bubble was probably not the brightest thing to do… Hamilton’s new universe is
fantastic. Unlike the human-centred
Night’s Dawn, there are many aliens in the universe, from the elf-like aliens
to a living starship. All of these
are well detailed. Some of the
plots in the book appear to have no point, but they will probably become
revealed in the sequel.
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