I finally finished Pandora’s star and It was really great. It is a total immersion ride, which takes us all across this new universe; rendered almost life like by Mr.Hamilton detailed descriptions of these numerous worlds, cultures and histories.
Even more, the characters are so well made, that I fell in love with everyone of the protagonist, the good guys and the bad guys alike -If you could qualify any of these characters as such- I could even understand the aliens’ point of view!
The story builds up slowly, but steadily- I could hardly put the book down in the last couple of hundreds pages- but all the strands of the tale are most interesting and entertaining, furthermore they give an abundance of background info on the societies, culture and humans of that universe.
Once more, Mr. Hamilton has constructed a magnificent space opera, with many believable scientific contraption, entrancing characters and thrilling plot lines. I can’t wait for the next installment.
Pandora's Star is a Science Fiction novel by PETER F. HAMILTON
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I just finished it too ! - I was looking for reviews to see what others thought and yours was the first page on google.
I bought the first one in an airport by chance, but as soon as I had read that one I couldn't wait for the second one to come out.
I'm glad to hear that there are another 3 books in this series to come, and that part three is well on the way. - I can't imagine what direction it's going to take; it's set 1000 years from the ending of Pandora's Star !
Hullo - Just finished the double set, Pandora's Star followed by Judas Unchained. I have to admit, it's like literary Crack, I was hooked. I thought mr Hamiltons writing style wasn't great or poetic, but the structure was such that I plowed through the two an a hlaf thousand pages in no time.
Only thing though - Bad ending aside, have you read Hyperion? It looks like it was written in 1989, I'm guessing a few years before Pandora? Read it - it seems like Hamilton has lifted whole chunks of the book. Hyperion deals with 'dataspheres' 'motiles' 'slight rippling of pressure curtains upon entering Portals' 'SI cores at odds with the human race' and so on. I know they're vague ideas but Hyperion puts in all so neatly and it kinda makes sense that Hamilton has used these ideas and made a shoddier universe out of them.
Anyway - random babble....have a sweet day all.
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