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Summary: Captivating and Hard to Put Down
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed both the Reality Dysfunction and the Neutronium Alchemist. The final chapter left me wanting more and my question is when will a sequel be written? It can't end this way! There are so many unanswered conclusions. Looking forward to the next volume ---- Please. Karen-Lee Stolte
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Summary: Blew my mind
Review: I picked this up on recommendation from a store employee. So I wasn't expecting much, but this book blew me away. This is one of the most spectacular displays of science fiction that I have ever read. The only problem stems from the fact that the author's British and so spells things weird. In spite of that: Prepare to be amazed.
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Summary: A COLOSSAL WORK !!!!!
Review: The Night's Dawn Trilogy: The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, and The Naked God. (plus the short story compilation "A Second Chance at Eden")Space Opera at its finest!!!! A series written with awe-inspiring scope and vision -- second only to Herbert's Dune Saga. Recommended to be read, re-read, and re-re-read.
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Summary: A big wind up but turned into a ground ball
Review: So far as writing style goes I found no real problems with character development or engagement, I found the suspension of disbelief a little strained at times with some of the techno babble becoming a little repetitive. As I say to my students "explain it once and then leave it alone". The seperate threads of the story were to far appart initially and I felt Mr Hamilton was straining to bring them together. Some of the characters were shallow and sterotyped, examples being a drunken & despondant missionary/priest and a lecherous river boat captain (shades of Mark Twain). But I found the climax of the book to be both tedious and dissapointing, shortchanging the preceeding chapters, characters and ultimately, Me, the reader. In a nutshell, "A pleasant trip, a pity about the destination".
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Summary: somewhat cleiche, but still gripping
Review: in the beginning of this book, hamilton went a little overboard with his "techno babble", making the mistake of thinking that prepending "nano" and appending "matrix" to words will make them sound fantastic. he seemed to get over this as he got into the book and started to substitute real creativity for fancy words. secondly, the author painted himself as a sort of homophobe, by making the only gay men in the galaxy satantic rapists, and his main character joshua calvert a super hetero stud who has his way every woman he encounters. now that's fiction. that being said, i found most of the book gripping and will be picking up the sequal soon.
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Summary: You'll burn ALL the midnight oil with this one
Review: Peter F. Hamilton has written one of the most spell-binding, gripping, page-turning unputdownable series in SF history. Kim Stanley Robinson and his 'Mars" series is (and actually, really is) left behind in his Martian Dust here as Peter F. Hamilton show you how you REALLY write a 'thick' novel (3inches thick in Australia - not 2 parts like in America) that will hold the reader from start to finish Admitedly, you have to wade through the first 100 pages where the nicest thing you can say is, 'it is nicely written', but setting the stage for the following 3000+ pages requires a bit of tedium. But rest assured, after the first 100 pages, you will be sucked in and committed to the end of the series. The Naked God" to find out what happens...
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Summary: Overall: an entertaining series.
Review: Hamilton isn't scared to play with his future universe on an epic scale. I'm curious to see how everything turns out, and while waiting I've read many of Hamilton's other books. His writing style is not fantastic and the ideas are neither terribly original nor scientifically feasible. However, that's more or less what I expect from sci-fi anyway. What counts is how the ideas are used, and I think Hamilton uses them to weave good stories. I look forward to reading more about Hamilton's chaotic future universe. :)
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Summary: Juvenile.
Review: If you liked the movie version of "Starship Troopers", you'll *love* Reality Dysfunction. This book is a real yawner replete with technology that isn't credible; often a few scientific buzzwords are strung together to "explain" or describe a phenomenon e.g. "patterning nodes", "electron matrix", "pseudofabric structure of wormholes" etc. "Neural nanonics" coexisting with 9 mm pistols with working bullets on a jungle planet that relies on horses and paddle wheel boats for transportation? Puhlease! A faux-pas that glared at me is when the Edenist Darcy uses "eel-derived electroplaque" to shock an antagonist. The correct word is "electroplax"; if Hamilton had done anything more than mispronounce a word he must have heard someone use once upon a time, he would have caught this. This example and many more like it peppered throughout the book demonstrate the author's shallow understanding of science. He has picked up some scientific jargon over the years, but clearly has no depth of knowledge. The plot itself is rather ho-hum; you won't find anything of lasting value here. I must say I agree with several of the comments made by others about the generally adolescent approach to sex and relationships. Also, I believe the violence is overdone and gratuitous. The violence in Hyperion was much more intense, but it wasn't as phony as the violence in this book. Hamilton's writing style is filled with "britishisms", which I found annoying; he needs to break out of his eurobox. I was looking forward to the 4 volume series, but now I'm glad I only bought the first book; it will be the last one of Hamilton's books I read.
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Summary: Good SF but not great
Review: These books definitely keep you reading, sort of like Battlefield Earth. Hamilton does have a good imagination and has come up with a very engaging universe. However, I would not put his books in the same league as Dune or Neuromancer or Fire on the Deep. There is not much that is really new, and the plot is so rambling and convoluted that you feel a bit lost after the first 1000 pages or so... Also, I found that he used sex and violence a bit more liberally than was really necessary, and tended to paint rather 1-dimensional characters. And, although I hate to be picky, he could really have used a proofreader -- on every page was at least one run-on sentence. Still, given all that, I am eagerly awaiting the final 2 volumes...
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Summary: The best Sci-Fi series I have ever read.
Review: I highly recommend this series to anyone who enjoys Sci-Fi. I hope that the story doesnt end with this series. Hamilton deserves some kind of major award for these books.
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