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Pandora's Star

Pandora's Star

by PeterF.Hamilton (Author)

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    Hardcover 2004

    $11.64
Synopsis

In AD 2329, humanity has colonised over four hundred planets, all of them interlinked by wormholes. With Earth at its centre, the Intersolar Commonwealth now occupies a sphere of space approximately four hundred light years across. When an astronomer on the outermost world of Gralmond, observes a star 2000 light years distant - and then a neighbouring one - vanish, it is time for the Commonwealth to discover what happened to them. For what if their disappearance indicates some kind of galactic conflict? Since a conventional wormhole cannot be used to reach these vanished stars, for the first time humans need to build a faster-than-light starship, the Second Chance. But it arrives to find each 'vanished' star encased in a giant force field - and within one of them resides a massive alien civilisation.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 896
 Edition: Main Market
 Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 20 Feb 2004
ISBN 10: 1405000198
ISBN 13: 9781405000192

Media Reviews
The depth and clarity of the future Hamilton envisions is as complex and involving as they come. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) The author's expansive vision of the future combines action and intrigue on a panoramic scale. -- Library Journal Astounding . . . Thrilling . . . Hamilton uses technology to excellent effect. -- Science Fiction Age Shows how thought-provoking yet entertaining science fiction can be. Some of the best fiction . . . in years. -- Midwest Book Review [Hamilton is] taking on one of sf's (and maybe all of literature' s) primal jobs: the creation of a world with the scale and complexity of the real one. -- Locus [Hamilton is] a rare talent. -- The Denver Post From the Hardcover edition.
Author Bio
Peter F. Hamilton was born in Rutland in 1960, and still lives near Rutland Water. 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 previous novels are the Greg Mandel series: Mindstar Rising (1993), A Quantum Murder (1994) and The Nano Flower (1995); and the bestselling 'Night's Dawn Trilogy': The Reality Dysfunction , The Neutronium Alchemist and The Naked God. Also published by Macmillan (and Pan) is A Second Chance at Eden, a novella and six short stories set in the same brilliantly realized universe, and The Confederation Handbook, a vital guide to the 'Night's Dawn Trilogy'. His most recent two novels were Fallen Dragon and Misspent Youth.