Peter F. Hamilton in general

Peter F Hamilton is an English science fiction writer who tends to be labelled as the best Englsih sci fi writer around at the moment, he's best known for his Nights Dawns Trilogy trilogy. his writing is one for the person who likes incredibly long novels in which everything moves at a slow pace, his Nights Dawn trilogy was a trilogy in which each novel came in at over 1000 pages each. He has the habit of writing each chapter from a one person perspective and tends to have around 6-8 main characters in each novel, these characters tend to be seperate for large chunks through out the novels but do sometimes meet up. Hamilton as with many writers ...  Read the complete review

(Will get this moved to the correct category in the fullness of time) In 2050 AD Nasa finally gets a manned mission to Mars, only to find itself pipped to the post by a couple of college geeks with a basement lab and a wormhole theory. Fast-forward to 2380 AD; the college geeks have become mega-billionaires (thanks to cheap and readily available rejuvenation, they're still around) and wormholes have become the basis on which a huge Intersolar Commonwealth has been constructed. Humanity has grown up into a wealthy, stable, rather complacent society. Commonwealth citizens enjoy virtual immortality, be it in physical or digital form (if you get tired ...  Read the complete review

If you enjoy "hard" SF, that is, Science Fiction with a heavy emphasis on future science, technology, and society, then Peter F. Hamilton deserves your attention. Likewise, if you like SF with memorable, convincing characters, then Hamilton excels in this area, too. To date, Hamilton's output has primarily consisted of two trilogies: the Greg Mandel books, and the epic Night's Dawn trilogy. The Greg Mandel books centre on the eponymous hero, a veteran of the British Army's Mindstar Battalion, which selected soldiers who showed latent psychic abilities and implanted them with synthetic glands whose neurohormones boosted these into ...  Read the complete review