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Summary: Read this book!
Review: I love this series! And it keep you moving, too. There are literally almost a hundred characters once the full story line sets in. At first, when reading the first book in the series, Reality Dysfunction part 1, you are confused by being dropped into the battle between Alkad Mzu's ships (deploying the Alchemist) and some blackhawks. But after that, the story lines start to wind together. Trust me, you want to read these in order. Missing 1 book is missing ~500 pages of character development, plot twists, you name it! If I have to wait until 1999 to read The Naked God, I'll go loopy ;)
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Summary: Outstanding, One of the best book's (Book) I have read
Review: I ordered the first book just to try Hamilton, But once I had read it I just had to get the others. Only problem is now I have to wait to 1999 to read the last book - aaaargh. Hamilton may well be one of the best authors I have ever read, lets hope the "The Naked God" is as good, or dare I say it better than the others.
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Summary: The best space opera since Star Wars!
Review: The neutronium alchemist has all the ingredients for a good SF saga: the characters are credible and complex, they are driven by personal goals and not the artificial "sense of duty above anything". The menace takes polymorphic figures, all different ranging from subtle to ruthlessly direct but always frightening and unpredictable. The technology is consistent and depicted from the "user's point of view", avoiding lenghtly justification. the style is perfect and the story full of surprises. I confess I gaped several times, even if I'm a little disappointed by the alchemist itself (but it was used VERY cleverly). What I liked the most was the threat, coming from the inside, avoiding the classical "good democrats vs. bad dictators" or "good humans vs. evil aliens" scheme. All in all, the best space opera since Star Wars (including the Thrawn trilogy). To own and to read several times!
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Summary: The reward
Review: Hamilton finally comes through. I read the first two books of the 'Reality Dysfunction' simply on their potential and the 'Neutronium Alchemist' is the reward. I had trouble getting through the first two books because just setting up the plethora of story lines he creates is daunting. Once Hamilton gets his story set up, it really takes off. This book is really where the series is at its best. It's too bad that the 'Reality Dysfunction' was split into two novels in the American version because the lack of any ending of the first book really turns some people off the whole series. The first part to 'Neutronium Alchemist' is again setting things up, but you just know by the second it will really start to get good. By the end of the first 'Reality Dysfunction' novel the story is only just beginning. Stick with the series through the first books and you won't regret it.
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Summary: I enjoyed it immensely, almost as much as the earlier books.
Review: Peter F. Hamilton is a first-rate sci-fi author. His bitek and neural nanonic technologies are fresh to me and I am continuously amazed by how deeply these simple-at-first-glance technologies have revised human culture. I am even more amazed that this is a work of fiction, not some history book detailing what life was like in the era. I find myself drawn into the world and forced to feel for the characters. Whether it is irritation/jealousy for Joshua Calvert, sympathy for poor Louise Kavanagh, or eerie worry about Quinn Dexter, Mr. Hamilton has managed to get me involved in his creations. As for the story itself, I was initially unimpressed (the living dead, how original) but soon found myself impressed by how originally the (admittably tired) idea was approached. These are NOT walking corpses (unless they want to be!) but real people, who happen to be dead, have stolen bodies, and be capable of feats of magic. This particular installation, while weaker than the books bordering it, had me enthralled. When I finished it I all but murdered my father, so slow was he in finishing the next installment in the series so that I could read it. In closing, and hoping it doesn't ruin the series for you: Alkad Mzu is one scary woman.
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Summary: Great Reviews!!!
Review: "Dazzling Invention!" -Gregory Benford "This series is taking on one SF's (and maybe all of literature's) primal jobs: the creation of a world with the scale and complexity of the real one." -Locus on THE REALITY DYSFUNCTION "Epic...far future adventure by a welcome new talent." -Science Fictin Age
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Summary: Wow! Can't wait for next in series
Review: Just finished reading Neutronium Alchemist collection and I can't wait until next year for the conclusion. Great series, very detailed and imaginitive.
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Summary: "Amazing" says it all
Review: Neutronium Alchemist and Reality Dysfunction both are incredible works of fiction that are so detailed they literally draw you in. All 4 exsisting books have a little something for everyone, action, romance, space battles, technical prowess, and religion. About as perfect as a book can come without getting banned somewhere in the US. :) 1984, etc.
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Summary: An epic
Review: Great book and realistic characters but i recommend reading all the books in sequence without reading books in between. I get lost sometimes when the minor charecters show back up between books. Most characters are three dimensional (All major ones are as our the reoccuring ones, cept the lackeys got have them in this kind of epic) One of the few science fiction stories i've read that the space battles are 3D. And it looks at combining spirituality with science and what is it that makes us.. us.
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Summary: Great book
Review: Hamilton has done it again. These books are some of the best epic-scope space opera I have ever read. This installment leaves you VERY anxious for _The Naked God_ and now I have to wait a whole year! Definitely worth it tho....
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