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[johnridley]

The Dreaming Void by Peter F Hamilton

This was a little difficult (OK, a LOT difficult) to get started on - for the first chapter, I had almost no idea what the hell he was talking about. The novel is set in a future where humanity is merging with each other and with technology along several parallel paths and there are some quasi-religions, post-physical societies, etc. So there's a lot of world building to do, and he's opted to do it via full immersion. It's not too bad really, I almost gave up in the first chapter but it didn't take too long to settle down.

In the end it's a pretty decent story. However, the book is not a complete story, it's clearly meant to be read with the next book in the series.

Comments

[madtechie2718.livejournal.com]

Night's Dawn is also extremely good and well worth reading; different universe to the Commonwealth stuff, so each can be read in isolation.

Night's Dawn is a little slow to start, but persevere!

If you read 'A Second Chance at Eden', it is a series of shorts set in Commonwealth space, but best read after the first three novels. The Commonwealth really does sound the sort of future in which one might enjoy living.

His earliest trilogy, the Greg Mandel series are also very good, if a little less polished, but that gives then an urgency that they might otherwise lack also very good.

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

OK, I've got them all loaded up, I guess I'll start with Commonwealth, then take a break. I may hold off on Temporal Void until book 3 comes out later this year, since I've already taken a break from the series.