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The Abyss Beyond Dreams: A Novel Of The Commonwealth (2014)

by Peter F. Hamilton(Favorite Author)

4.21 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0345547195 (ISBN13: 9780345547194)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Del Rey

series

Commonwealth: Chronicle of the Fallers

review 1: Once more into the Void, dear friends, and let slip the mods of war. The Void still threatens the Commonweath and it’s up to one of its founding fathers, Nigel Sheldon, to investigate … from within. But humans are not the only intelligent beings in the Void. The Fallers, mimics beyond compare, are also there, and they mean to destroy humanity utterly, and even Void-provided superpowers have little effect on their particular malevolence. The Fallers, however, do offer some hope. Unlocking their secrets may just lead to a means to destroy the Void … if Nigel can just uncover it on a world ruled by useless and corrupt leaders. Time to foment a bit of insurrection ... followed by the real challenge: Dominating the Void itself. Part one of a reported two, Peter Hamilton n... moreever fails to bring the awesome, thus cementing his status as one of my favorite authors.
review 2: If you haven't read Pandora's Star, don't even think about reading this one. Even after reading the earlier books, much of the jargon went right over my head. It's one thing to be inventive about technology in a SciFi book and quite another to throw out words without explanation time after time. The context was definitely not enough to create understanding, especially in the first part of the book where a ship is pulled into an odd forest. There's telepathy, time warps and so many other things all jumbled together I had to go back and read this part of the book again after I got to a later part of the novel where it was referenced in a way that almost made sense. ALMOST. Most of the novel is about the society on the alien world 3000 years after colonization (although this became confusing as well.) A political revolution with all the nastiness only humans can achieve, plus some very disgusting alien enemies. SPOILER ALERT: The exact source of the strangeness of the planet, the Void itself, is never explained well enough so I understood the nature of the Void or the forest surrounding it... I wish someone could explain this to me. less

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