Pandora's Star - Peter F. Hamilton

In the late twenty-first century on an Earth where the western hemisphere (America) has concentrated on space exploration and the eastern hemisphere (Europe) has concentrated on life-enhancing genetics, NASA is just about to land its first manned mission on Mars. Unfortunately for the mission pilot, Wilson Kime, his moment of glory has been usurped by two college students, Nigel Sheldon and Ozzie Fernandez Isaacs, who have invented wormhole technology and are waiting for the NASA craft on the Mars surface. Fast forward a couple of hundred years and the double sciences of the life-enhancing ... more

Pandora's Star is the next offering from one of the UK's best modern sci-fi writers, Peter F. Hamilton, the same author who brought us The Reality Dysfunction. Very aptly named, as what is released in this book is very much like one of the plagues that the mythical Pandora's box is purported to contain. Set in the "not too" distant future, humankind has spread out amongst the stars courtesy of Wormholes. "True" death has been almost eradicated thanks to modern science, and there are no significant conflicts (read as no wars) to speak of, other than the Guardians of Selfhood (a cult that ... more

Peter F. Hamilton has carved out a niche for himself as one of Britain's finest Sci-Fi writers. With Pandora's Star he continues to strengthen his reputation with another great epic. In the near future the people of Earth discover how to create wormholes and for the first time truly escape the boundaries of their own solar system. Over the following centuries this single event results in the colonisation of hundreds of planets, the discovery of alien races, technologies and medicines that lead to the virtual immortality of any human that desires it. However all is not as rosy as it may seem ... more