Pandora’s Star
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Critics have compared the engrossing space operas of Peter F. Hamilton to the classic sagas of such sf giants as Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert. But Hamilton’s bestselling fiction—powered by a fearless imagination and world-class storytelling skills—has also earned him comparison to Tolstoy and Dickens. Hugely ambitious, wildly entertaining, philosophically stimulating: the novels of Peter F. Hamilton will change the way you reflect about science fiction. Now, with Pandora’s Star, he starts a new multivolume adventure, one that promises to be his most mind-blowing yet.
The year is 2380. The Intersolar Commonwealth, a sphere of stars some four hundred light-years in diameter, contains more than six hundred worlds, interconnected by a web of transport “tunnels” known as wormholes. At the utmost edge of the Commonwealth, astronomer Dudley Bose observes the impossible: Over one thousand light-years away, a star . . . vanishes. It does not go supernova. It does not collapse into a black hole. It simply disappears. Since the location is too distant to reach by wormhole, a quicker-than-light starship, the Second Chance, is dispatched to learn what has occurred and whether it represents a threat. In mandate is Wilson Kime, a five-time revived ex-NASA pilot whose glory days are centuries behind him.
Opposed to the mission are the Guardians of Selfhood, a cult that believes the human race is being manipulated by an alien entity they call the Starflyer. Bradley Johansson, leader of the Guardians, warns of sabotage, fearing the Starflyer means to use the starship’s mission for its own ends,.
Pursued by a Commonwealth special agent convinced the Guardians are crazy but treacherous, Johansson flees. But the danger is not averted. Aboard the Second Chance, Kime wonders if his crew has been infiltrated. Soon enough, he will have additional worries. A thousand light-years away, something truly incredible is waiting: a deadly discovery whose unleashing will threaten to ruin the Commonwealth . . . and humanity itself.
Could it be that Johansson was right?
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Too much emphasis on exposition, and not enough depth to the drama. WAY TOO MUCH offensiveness. That kind of writing turns SciFi into trash. The ending isn’t a cliff-hanger, er falls-hanger and I feel I wasted my time on this novel. When authors do this I have no interest in the sequel. Written with a British perspective and style which doesn’t translate well to Yankee expectations.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This book seems like it came from the mind of a perverted 14 year ancient. The whole book is full of profanity and childish sexual themes (Nearly every character it seemed like). And this book should have been half the number of pages. The plot was full of tangents and pointless long-winded dialog. I wish i’d never read it. I don’t recommend it at all.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This was a pretty excellent book. Worth the read. But it all the characters had pretty lose morals and seemed to be sleeping with everyone. It got rather anoying.
There were some serious breaches in the laws of physics. Everyone knows that wormholes won’t work the way sci-fi authors would like them to. But Mr Hamilton didn’t see to care. There were wormholes shooting people all over the place… they’re a nice plot contrivance but they make me reflect of the book as more of a fantasy novel than sci-fi. There are also some “Magical” aliens that do things that are so far beyond possibility that it has to be “Magic” and not equipment. I’m sure that, as usual, the leader just wants us to reflect they are “So far advanced” that we just don’t know. But some things just aren’t possible.
Finally, this book is a cliffhanger… and I mean that reasonably factually, if you read it you’ll get the joke. Anyway, there is NO sense of conclusion at the end of the book. Basically, the book doesn’t end… it just flows into the next one, that hasn’t been written yet. So it’s like a name just yanks the book out of your hands and you have to wait for the next one.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Somehow it all went incorrect with the Naked God…ten sub-plot jostling for page space until the bitter end. The same with this tree killer. Lots of characters and very small action – and when it happens it catches you nearly off guard’ and in a semi-comatose state of endless pap and hackney’d character development. Somewhere under all that stout lurks a damn fine tale. But like his previous soap epic it needs some damn forceful editing and slicing off useless subplots and endless descriptions of hang-gliders on mountain tops, manufacturing parks and silly like scenes.
Come on Hamilton…don’t write shaggy dog tales. You have immense talent and super thoughts…just compress them a bit like you used to do in the early ‘leaner days’ of the Nano Flower.
…Oh, and stop trying to write like an American. It’s a bit embaressing mate!!
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Was a huge fan of The Reality Destruction…
This book would have been very high on my list with exception of two things which seem obligatory in every type of entertainment:
Point promotion of interracial relationships… and how Hamilton facts that in a “multicultural” society that different races would really subscribe to a single very ancient culture (which does not even exist today) eludes me.
And the second being homosexuality on the part of one of the main characters. 1-3 percent of the population; odds are probably not… but as usual have to work it in somehow.
Generally language Hamilton should not play up the sex element in his novels, it never smoothly works into whatever scene he’s writing when it is beyond vague references.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5