Peter F Hamilton

[bi0boy]

So I read the Nights Dawn Trilogy. Fantastic space opera, although a bit dodgy in places it was brimming full of well fat stuff like the edenist habitats, mind-machine interfaces and galactic marines with massive weapons

So I bought the Commonwealth Saga to read. However after being nearly 300 pages into Pandora's Star I've lost the will to go on. Some detective woman, trains between planets blah blah. Does it get any better? Are any of his other books as good as Nights Dawn?

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

So I read the Nights Dawn Trilogy. Fantastic space opera, although a bit dodgy in places it was brimming full of well fat stuff like the edenist habitats, mind-machine interfaces and galactic marines with massive weapons

I love the Nights Dawn Trilogy - it's just so "SPACE OPERA!!!!!!!! INFESTED BY THE UNDEAD!!!!!!!GUUUNS!!!!!"

So I bought the Commonwealth Saga to read. However after being nearly 300 pages into Pandora's Star I've lost the will to go on. Some detective woman, trains between planets blah blah. Does it get any better? Are any of his other books as good as Nights Dawn?

I read the two books of the Commonwealth Saga in a few days on holiday, and to be honest they are only OK, worth reading as far as they go, with Judas Unchained improving on Pandora's Star. I skimmed a lot though.

His new sequence is set a thousand or so years in the future of the Commonwealth Saga and he's two books out of three through it and it's been enjoyable so far, primarily because there's a strong strand of story running through that consists of likeable and sympathetic characters. He still needs a skilled editor though.

 

[Bob_the_lost]

He needs to work out how to end his fucking stories more like, less deus ex, more sensible conclusions please

The commonwealth saga is a classic example, if i were the Starflyer humanity would be toast.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

He needs to work out how to end his fucking stories more like, less deus ex, more sensible conclusions please

At least with Nights Dawn there was no doubt what was going to happen with the hero's name essentially being "Jehovah is Salvation: the Calf of Man".

 

[Scaggs]

I read three or four of his brick sized novels and enjoyed them, once I'd got used to flicking through pages describing what the characters were wearing, eating and shagging. I've tried to read the second book in the Commonwealth Saga and my brain just turns off about halfway down the page. He should quit scifi and start writing Hollyoaks scripts

 

[DotCommunist]

Space Opera in the truest, trashiest sense of the term. Rarely can you describe good sci fi in terms of a 'romp' but peter does it

 

[ChrisC]

I like Peter F. Hamilton a good mind and idea's person and I have read several of his books. However I think it would do him good justice to have an good editor. I find that his books, drag on in epic proportions. Like I said he has a wonderful imagination look at the Silfen in the Commonwealth

 

[ChrisC]

I read the two books of the Commonwealth Saga in a few days on holiday, and to be honest they are only OK, worth reading as far as they go, with Judas Unchained improving on Pandora's Star. I skimmed a lot though.

You read them both in a few days? Wow that's something. I must say I'm gladdened by the fact that Judas Unchained appears to be better. I'm reading that now and I'm thinking of giving up. I'll wait it out to see if it get's any better.

 

[Random]

I have already forgotten what resolved the Night's Dawn books but I can still remember the description of some crims sticking a power knife into some guy's pubes

 

[ChrisC]

Well it's supposed to be deus ex machina, a friendly god comes down and sorts it all out. I haven't even read them so I'm not sure on that, but it's what I've heard.

 

[Mation]

Night's Dawn trilogy was very silly but I really liked it