cornflakes Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 Finished reading the duology (Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained) from Peter F. Hamilton about last month, has anyone else read it? I thought Hamilton has created a fascinating universe-- the societal ramifications of memorycells, rejuvenation and wormholes are well-thought out and ingenious. However the story was very bleh, especially the Primes. I get that the Primes are merely an adversary for the Commonwealth to defeat and grow in the process, but couldn't Hamilton have at least introduced a more complex alien race that Arachnid 101? They are a single consciousness, and therefore have no art, no culture, nothing. Plus the whole thing with the Starflyer seriously needs to be shaved by Occam's Razor. The characters are a varied and mostly interesting lot, which makes up a lot for the at-times sluggish pace of the books. My personal favourite characters were Mark Vernon and Paula Myo. I haven't read The Dreaming Void, though thinking of picking it up sometime. What do you guys think of this series? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Jacobs Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 Yes I agree it is very very good. I could get wrapped up in the book and really live the characters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 I have a copy of Pandora's Star on my "to-read" pile, and I've heard a lot of good things about Hamilton's books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karsa Orlong Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 Nothing like resurrecting an old thread! I knew I'd seen Mr Hamilton's name on here somewhere. I'm just about to start re-reading Pandora's Star (my third time, lol), to give me an excuse to finally read Judas Unchained. And then I can read the Void trilogy in time for the paperback release of the final book in April Mr H is guilty of writing my favourite sf trilogy - the quite brilliant Night's Dawn books, which include my single favourite sf novel in The Neutronium Alchemist, which I've read twice (and The Reality Dysfunction, which I've read three times). Loved his Greg Mandel books as well, especially A Quantum Murder I'm quite stupidly excited about reading some Hamilton again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amesy Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 As my Signature suggests I'm half way through the Neutronium Alchemist. I got The Evolutionary Void Signed but the man himself only 2 weeks ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karsa Orlong Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 I got The Evolutionary Void Signed but the man himself only 2 weeks ago. Ah, you went along - nice! Did he have a good number of people turn up? Have you read the other Void books? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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