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When I saw a new SF book by Peter F. Hamilton (also by Gareth L. Powell, but I didn't know him), I got it immediately, as he is one of my favorite authors. Light Chaser doesn't take place in one of his universes, but on the domain, where a bunch of human planets live in serious stability - which turns out is for reason.  Our main protagonist is a light chaser - someone who goes on 1000 year circuits (they don't have FTL propulsion) around worlds exchanging the use of memory collars - entertainment for the higher-level worlds -  for various goods in an AI run ship. But everything changes when someone starts showing in several memory collars, in different planets... Which was supposed to be impossible. I thought it was funny that this book had resurrections and such, but then I remembered the Night Dawn trilogy, which had some aspects like that, too. Overall, strongly recommended. My only complaint is that it was pretty short.

Salvation Lost is the latest book by Peter F. Hamilton, part of the Salvation Sequence, which started with Salvation. The author is one of a few authors that I pre-order books from. I feel no need to wait for reviews because he delivers every time. Now that some people know that the aliens (unnamed to avoid spoilers, but should be very obvious) are trying to take humanity to their god, the fight begins. There is plenty of action, both in the present and in the deep future. And even the regular tech is fun. There is also a new group of criminals in the legion, which mildly tie in with the bigger events, but they are OK, and introduce some new tech. There is a fun twist in the end (on the future) with someone's identity. I can't help but think that the interloper is a bit of a deus ex machina event - something that does happen often with Peter F. Hamilton books. Still, the book was just awesome and I can't wait for the conclusion...

The sequel to Salvation just came out, so before that I wanted the previous book fresh on my mind, instead of the usual state of things, where I slowly remember important details as they appear on the new book. ( My original review of the book ) I have to say it held very well on the re-read, and I might have enjoyed the tech of the world even more. Portals, widespread AIs, genetic manipulation, etc. I am really looking forward to reading the sequel.

Salvation: A Novel - is the latest book from Peter F. Hamilton. It does not take place in the CommonWealth universe. I am a huge fan of Hamilton (both the CommonWealth and several of his other books) and this one did not disappoint. There are quite a few parallels between Salvation's universe and the CommonWealth: - They use portals (even more, here) - They are invaded by stealth aliens that can take human form It was great fun to see all the ways portals are used - like how they use threading to get large portals around, and the use of portal ships to use breakaway glaciers to "terraform" deserts. Also portal homes. I read that some people was upset at ALL the background stories getting in the middle of the action. True, they take a lot of the book but all add to a big deal in the end. The story is a little hard to describe well. A few important envoys take a journey to a distant star where an alien ship has crashed. On the way in a ground car (used to protec...

A Night Without Stars is the latest Commonwealth novel by Peter F. Hamilton, which takes place in Bienvenido. Bienvenido got sent out of the Void, and they are in even more trouble with the fallers. But someone is coming to help (if you are a Commonwealth series fan, you can probably guess who that is). As usual, it was excellent. There are many authors that I will not pre-order from, but Peter F. Hamilton has proven to be very safe in this regard. Personally I liked the high-tech bits more, but the low-tech parts were still pretty good. And plenty of action all around. The ending was pretty good, although as usual for Hamilton, it felt a bit deus-ex-machina. Still, it was foreshadowed enough that it felt fair. And the epilogue was very satisfying. Overall, strongly recommended for fans of the Commonwealth series. It'd be pretty confusing if you didn't read the rest of the Void series, though.

A Window into Time - by Peter F. Hamilton - is a wonderful novella about the nature of consciousness. I'm a big fan of Peter F. Hamilton series - I have reviewed several here - and if there is a new book by him I can be pretty confident that I will like it, so I got this on pre-order. It is short for a book (106 pages), being a novella rather than a novel, and it certainly feels all too short. I'm not sure how much I can say without adding too many spoilers, but the topic goes into the nature of time and consciousness. I didn't expect it to. The main character is also wonderfully defined. Great ending. Overall, excellent, and I strongly recommend checking it out.

When I heard about The Abyss Beyond Dreams - by Peter F. Hamilton - I knew I'd had to get it. I'm huge fan of the author, and I specially like the CommonWealth novels. Granted, I usually don't enjoy the Void parts as much as the high-tech ones. Thankfully, there is less to complain here, as a big part of the plot involves Nigel Sheldon's clone entering the void, with the help of the Raiel to try and destroy it from within - obviously for those who read it, this takes place before the end of the original Void trilogy. Overall, very good and strongly recommended for all fans of the Void trilogy. I can't wait for the sequel!

Great North Road, by Peter F. Hamilton, is a SF novel. One thing that surprised me in the first few pages, is that while they do have gateways too, it is not a Commonwealth novel. That was a bit of a letdown, but the book made up for it later. The history of the world is important for anything making sense - a long time ago, someone discovered how to make gateways between points, including several light years. Unlike the Commonwealth, these are harder to aim (which makes more sense, and more importantly, serves the rest of the novel too). Several worlds were colonized, including St. Libra - which makes a great part of the fuel used in several worlds - biooil. The biggest of those biooil makers is headed by the North family - mostly composed of clones. Now, and this is the important event that starts the story, a North was found murdered in NewCastle - just the city of the St. Libra gateway. And murdered with an weird, never seen weapon, that had also been used in a mass murder of ...

Manhattan in Reverse is a book of short stories by Peter F. Hamilton . I'm a big fan of his CommonWealth universe, as well as many of his other works (albeit he does have an habit of pulling Deux in Machina endings) and most of the stories are in the CommonWealth. Watching Trees Grow - a murder mistery that takes hundreds of years to solve - was pretty good. It takes place in an universe where Rome never fell, and the Emperors turned from breeding gladiators to breeding for longevity (which I imagine is incredibly hard, given that whole generations will pass before you get any useful data about that coupling you made...). I also can't help but imagine that without the whole Dark Ages thing, they would have much more than the few decades of technology advance suggested. But overall, very good. Footvote - a very nice story of what happens when you can generate wormholes and move the dissatisfied population in droves out of a country. The constitution items mixed with th...