The Dreaming Void - Peter F. Hamilton

I'd seen this paperback hanging around the offer shelves of high street bookshops for some time and wasn't exactly impressed by its rather cheesy cover that had me thinking that it would either be a terrible work of pulp fiction of a masterwork of science fiction. As it turns out, it's closer to the first than the second, but the old maxim of not judging a book by its cover applies. In 'The Dreaming Void', Hamilton strings together a slew of narratives largely divided between the universe outside 'the void' - an artificially created universe created by an alien race where entry is forbidden and the known galaxy. The galaxy we are introduced to is ...  Read the complete review