One of his massive (880+ pages), broad-canvas, galactic SF adventures for which he stands head and shoulders above his peers. If you haven’t read him you really must.
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About Pandora's Star
Pandora's Star is the first part of Peter F. Hamilton's epic Commonwealth Saga duology - a fantastic galaxy-spanning novel from the master of space opera. For fans of Iain M. Banks and Alastair Reynolds.At the edge of the galaxy something awakens - and it's coming for us . . .Earth AD 2329: Humanity has colonized over four hundred planets, all interlinked by wormholes. For the first time in mankind's history there is peace. Then a star over a thousand light years away suddenly vanishes, imprisoned inside a force field of immense size. Yet who - or what - has that sort of technology? And what could this mean for us? Only a faster-than-light starship, captained by ex-NASA astronaut Wilson Kime, can reach that distance to investigate.For Wilson, getting inside the force field could be easy. It may be harder to stop something else from getting out.What if there was a very good reason to seal off an entire star system?The Commonwealth Saga duology concludes with Judas Unchained.'The best book Hamilton has written in years' - Guardian'Anyone who begins this won't be able to put it down' - Publishers Weekly
Pandora's Star is the first part of Peter F. Hamilton's epic Commonwealth Saga duology - a fantastic galaxy-spanning novel from the master of space opera. For fans of Iain M. Banks and Alastair Reynolds.
At the edge of the galaxy something awakens - and it's coming for us . . .
Earth AD 2329: Humanity has colonized over four hundred planets, all interlinked by wormholes. For the first time in mankind's history there is peace. Then a star over a thousand light years away suddenly vanishes, imprisoned inside a force field of immense size. Yet who - or what - has that sort of technology? And what could this mean for us? Only a faster-than-light starship, captained by ex-NASA astronaut Wilson Kime, can reach that distance to investigate.
For Wilson, getting inside the force field could be easy. It may be harder to stop something else from getting out.
What if there was a very good reason to seal off an entire star system?
The Commonwealth Saga duology concludes with Judas Unchained.
'The best book Hamilton has written in years' - Guardian
'Anyone who begins this won't be able to put it down' - Publishers Weekly
The best book Hamilton has written in years - The Guardian
Anyone who begins this won't be able to put it down ... Hamilton proves that 'inteligent space opera' isn't an oxymoron - Publishers Weekly
Author
About Peter F. Hamilton
Peter F. Hamilton was born in Rutland in 1960. He began writing in 1987, and sold his first short story to Fear magazine in 1988. He has also been published in Interzone and the In Dreams and New Worlds anthologies, and several small press publications. His first novel was Mindstar Rising, published in 1993, and he has been steadily productive since then. Peter lives near Rutland Water with his wife Kate, daughter Sophie and son Felix.
Pandora's Star is the first part of Peter F. Hamilton's epic Commonwealth Saga duology - a fantastic galaxy-spanning novel from the master of space opera.
Pandora's Star features in the following genres: Science Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
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Pandora's Star was written by Peter F. Hamilton and published by Pan Books an imprint of Pan Macmillan
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