Peter F. Hamilton, Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $60 (936p) ISBN 978-1-59606-333-4
This enormous middle volume of the Night's Dawn trilogy, first published in the 1990s, is a solid space opera best suited to readers familiar with the first book, The Reality Dysfunction (republished in 2009), and who have a lot of time on their...
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Peter F. Hamilton. Del Rey, $32 (736p) ISBN 978-0-345-54722-4
Hamilton delivers on all the expectations set by The Abyss Beyond Dreams in this continued exploration of his far-future Commonwealth setting. The planet of Bienvenido and its lost colonists remains stranded far from the Commonwealth. Continuing the
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Peter F. Hamilton . Del Rey, $30 (640p) ISBN 978-0-345-54719-4
In this opener to a two-book series, Hamilton delivers a gripping, inventive chapter in his Commonwealth saga. In the year 3326 (just over 200 years before the events of The Dreaming Void), Commonwealth co-founder Nigel Sheldon, a major presence...
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Peter F. Hamilton. Del Rey, $30 (976p) ISBN 978-0-345-52666-3
Hamilton’s stand-alone near-future mystery is a mesmerizing page-turner whose pace never lags despite the book’s substantial length. In 2143, Newcastle police detective Sidney Hurst realizes that a naked corpse dragged from the river was a member of
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Peter F. Hamilton. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $40 (272p) ISBN 978-1-59606-440-9
Best known for his lengthy space operas (The Dreaming Void, etc.), Hamilton clearly demonstrates his skill with shorter lengths in this collection of seven stories, published in the U.K. in 2011. Many of the stories adopt the form of mysteries,...
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Peter F. Hamilton, Author Del Rey Books $27 (630p) ISBN 978-0-345-49653-9
In the tradition of grand-scale SF sagas that explore the potential of human evolution, this densely plotted and intensely thought-provoking opener for Hamilton's Void trilogy takes place roughly 1,000 years after the events of 2006's Judas...
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Peter F. Hamilton, Author Mysterious Press $26.95 (992p) ISBN 978-0-446-52567-1
In the massive conclusion to his elaborate metaphysical trilogy, Hamilton (The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist) resolves the fate of humanity and its confrontation with the souls of its dead. In this volume, the Confederation's epic...
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Peter F. Hamilton, Author Tor Books $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85955-8
Critically acclaimed in his native England for four novels, all SF, Hamilton makes his stateside debut with the novel that launched his writing career and that begins his Greg Mandel trilogy. Set in a 21st-century England recovering from massive...
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Peter F. Hamilton, Author . Warner Aspect $25.95 (640p) ISBN 978-0-446-52708-8
This hefty novel of interstellar war and alien contact in the 25th century, a sort of Starship Troopers
as if written by Charles Dickens, ranks as one of Hamilton's best. Though he's a mercenary for the Zantiu-Braun corporation, which gets...
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Peter F. Hamilton, Del Rey, $28 (704p) ISBN 978-0-345-49657-7
Dense and dazzling with complex story lines, compelling characters, and universe-spanning drama, Hamilton's latest offering is a satisfying conclusion to the Void trilogy (The Dreaming Void; The Temporal Void). Araminta is destined to provide an...
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Peter F. Hamilton, Author . Subterranean $60 (909p) ISBN 978-1-59606-253-5
First published in 1996, this behemoth opening to the Night's Dawn trilogy takes humankind across the galaxy on a quest for profit that becomes a desperate battle for survival. Space scavenger Joshua Calvert begins shipping wood from the...
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Peter F. Hamilton, Author . Del Rey $28 (736p) ISBN 978-0-345-49655-3
The shelf-bending and vastly satisfying sequel to 2008's The Dreaming Void
continues the epic narrative chronicling humankind's potentially self-destructive search for existential and spiritual fulfillment inside an ever-expanding black...
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Peter F. Hamilton, Author . Del Rey $26 (403p) ISBN 978-0-345-46164-3
British space opera author Hamilton (The Dreaming Void
) isn't quite up to his usual standards in this cautionary tale about tinkering with the human body. Several decades in the future, life has been revolutionized by the datasphere, the...
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Peter F. Hamilton, Author . Del Rey $26.95 (827p) ISBN 978-0-345-46166-7
Set in the 24th century, bestseller Hamilton's richly satisfying space opera is less a sequel to Pandora's Star
(2004) than the second half of one dauntingly complicated, wonderfully imagined novel. The diverse human Commonwealth is...
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Peter F. Hamilton, Author . Del Rey $26.95 (768p) ISBN 978-0-345-46162-9
Hamilton's exhilarating new opus proves that "intelligent space opera" isn't an oxymoron. By the 24th century, the vast human Commonwealth has spread from Earth via artificial wormholes. Various benign or seemingly indifferent alien...
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Peter F. Hamilton, Author, R. Woodman, Author Tor Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-85954-1
Lots of chewy techno-detail fills this near-future British SF mystery about a brilliant and eccentric physicist who's brutally murdered in his private mansion and the group of students who idolize him and are the prime suspects in his death....
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Peter F. Hamilton, Author, John Lee, Read by , read by John Lee. Tantor Audio $54.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-0727-8
The first of a trilogy, the far-future plot of this audiobook concerns various factions battling to help or prevent a religious movement from undertaking a pilgrimage to a world hidden within a mysterious void, a journey with the potential to...
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