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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. 

This is well worth a read, proving that Hamilton is keeping his standards high. 

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