Beyond the edges of inhabited space, the lights from a star go out. We desperately want to know why - but some mysteries weren't meant to be explored. Thrilling space opera from a science fiction master at work.
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Beyond the edges of inhabited space, the lights from a star go out. We desperately want to know why - but some mysteries weren't meant to be explored. Thrilling space opera from a science fiction master at work.
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Pandora's Star is the first part of Hamilton's epic Commonwealth Saga duology - a fantastic galaxy-spanning novel from the master of space opera.At the edge of the galaxy something awakens - and it's coming for usEarth AD 2329: Humanity has colonized over four hundred planets, all interlinked by wormholes. For the first time in mankind's history there is peace. Then a star over a thousand light years away suddenly vanishes, imprisoned inside a force field of immense size. Yet who - or what - has that sort of technology? And what could this mean for us? Only a faster-than-light starship, captained by ex-NASA astronaut Wilson Kime, can reach that distance to investigate.However, what if there was a very good reason to seal off an entire star system? Also, getting in could prove easier than the worst possible outcome - stopping something else from getting out.The Commonwealth Saga duology concludes with Judas Unchained.'The best book Hamilton has written in years' - Guardian'Anyone who begins this won't be able to put it down' - Publishers Weekly
Critic Reviews
“Compelling”
The best book Hamilton has written in years -- Guardian
Anyone who begins this won’t be able to put it down -- Publishers Weekly
-- SFX
An immersive, grand-scale space opera -- SFSignal
SF's go-to guy for adventure on a truly interstellar scale . . . Hamilton's storytelling is both staggering and poetic -- SFReviews
About the Author
Peter F. Hamilton was born in Rutland in 1960 and now lives in Somerset. He began writing in 1987, and sold his first short story to Fear magazine in 1988. He has written many bestselling novels, including the Greg Mandel series, the Night's Dawn trilogy, the Commonwealth Saga, the Void trilogy, The Chronicle of the Fallers, the Salvation Sequence, short story collections and several standalone novels including Fallen Dragon and Great North Road.
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