by Peter F. Hamilton
A vast, all-you-can-eat, SF buffet. Probably off-puttingly long for those trying to cram in 250 books in a year and whether or not the story actually needs an entire chapter on the evolution of the Ly-cilph is open for debate but for those of us happy to sud ourselves in a highly readable SF saga th...
*sigh*I wanted to like this. I did. And I liked parts of it a lot, many of the ideas were fascinating, several of the characters I really dug. But there were other issues that hampered my overall enjoyment, and they can't be ignored.On a small, barely developed planet, some kind of ancient alien for...
I bought this book because I'd heard it's good. It didn't disappoint! It's a great story with lots of tension about what's going to happen. One of the things I really liked is how the author explains some of the science behind the science-fiction stuff / technology (such as the ships). What I liked ...
"TL,DR. There are very few SF stories that justify more than 120,000 words."- Jo Walton's blog on Hugo Nominees: 1998Jo Walton is the best sf books reviewer extant (IMO), as an author she is no slouch either. Unfortunately for her The Reality Dysfunction is the exception that proves the rule, this ...
Recommended by Mark Monday (http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/203473635?utm_content=A&utm_medium=email&utm_source=comment_instant#comment_56269204)
I loved this.I think the only problem was that there were so many story lines that I occasionally lost track of who was who and who was doing what where. It took a long time to get into the action, too, though I think in retrospect I appreciate the buildup and the mystery, wondering what was going o...
awesome book. seriously! loved the sheer scope of it! the imagination, the ideas, the concepts - A W E S O M E !!
Enjoyable, but I'm getting a little tired of all-powerful ghosts who can't be stopped by any weapon known to man. We've had hints - I think there have been 3 methods that will exorcise the spirit - so why not get on with it. Basically, this 1100 page tome should have been 300.
I like trash and Hamilton writes the best trash. so elaborate. the dead are coming back to possess the living except it's all science fictional! great world-building. I love world-building when the world being built gets destroyed. in this book, that's a bunch of worlds. plus some cool but corny but...
I'm on page 450 and I don't know if I can finish this one. So far we've had:Awesome:- Humans biologically bonded to technology: Because I can't wait for my own neural link into the internets.- Space colonisation programme, settlers, frontiers, etc. = I always enjoy this sort of thing.Not so awesome:...
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