The Reality Dysfunction - Peter F. Hamilton

...would be impossible to compress the contents of its 1,221 pages into two hours, and still tell a coherent story. Remember what happened with "Dune"? The Reality Dysfunction is the first part of a space opera on the grandest possible scale. Peter F. Hamilton shows the same careful thought and consideration of consequence that was evident in his debut novel, "Mindstar Rising", only this time he has extrapolated all the way out to the beginning of ...
...the effects of global warming; great storms torture the surface, and Man lives under protective domes that cover whole cities, linked by a rapid transit system that can cross the Atlantic in 45 minutes. But Earth is not the setting for the first part of the "Night's Dawn" trilogy, merely the psychological background. The main plot follows the events that unfold on Lalonde, a recently opened colony world orbiting a far distant star. One of Hamilton's ...

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...one. One would also expect the action in a 3600 page trilogy to be rather slow for the first 4 or 5 hundred pages. Incorrect. You are thrown directly into the mayhem from page one, and it keeps getting bigger. I can't heap too much praise on these books - all I can say is that they are so convincing and gripping as to seem like a small, more interesting reality by the time you reach the end of them. I am not an emotional thing as a rule, but by ...
...again read of the characters whom for countless days I had watched the actions of. That is the beuty of the trilogy - unlike much sci-fi, they are books about people, not hardware, and the fantastic setting is merely a way of putting these people in more interesting situations. ...

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...really will have missed out. The reality dysfunction is the first book in the nights dawn trilogy and really sets the scene for a huge epic tale. The author manages to mix elements of horror, suspense and mystery along with the traditional space opera themes and throws in a huge amountof ideas. The storytelling is also excellent with the first six hundred pages feeling like the first hundred of some books with the author having a talent for exciting ...

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...thousand pages, and it's only the first part of the trilogy? Is he serious? It turns out that yes, he is indeed serious, and yes, it is indeed worthwhile. This is probably one of the finest hard SF books I've ever read, and re-read... It's reached the 'old favourite' stage now, where I'll reach for it if there's nothing on TV on a Sunday evening. The plot? Can I really summarise the plot in just a few words? I can but try... On a colony world, ...
...knows what it is, but the possessed have incredible power, and are almost unstoppable. Well, that's just scratched the surface. I don't know what else to say, really - there are literally dozens of well drawn characters here, plus pages on background - history, technology, everything. The universe in which this book is set is utterly believable - the months of background writing that Hamilton did paid off no end (and indeed in more ways than one ...

andrewsi 15.04.2001 · Read full review
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...from a huge selection in the book shop. It actually sat on my table for a couple of weeks before I got round to picking it up. Well, what can I say? Why did I delay?...what a fantastic book! I am an avid reader - I read at least a book per week, more if they are only small, and I read anything. Sci-Fi, Drama, poetry, novels , mills and boon, famous five, you name it, I've probably read it. Anyway, I digress....not only are the characters well rounded ...
...easily visualise it due to the evocative and interesting language Hamilton uses. And, hey we've all seen StarWars?! So it becomes full of the classic space stuff, you know, lots of colonised planets, genetically engineered life, and then it happens....empathy. I guarantee you will find a character YOU empahise with in this story. I even dreamt about some of the charaters - Only Jordan and Tolkien have done that to me. Fantastic. Hats off to Hamilton. ...

Macaroon 14.08.2001 · Read full review
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...they were unfeasably thick! The Reality Dysfunction I thought was a pretty good book, although difficult to get into at first - there are many characters and it's tricky to keep track of them all. The books get even better as the series progresses though, the third one is by far the best, I was reading it at any given free moment for a few days when I was getting near the end. Peter Hamilton is an excellent author, his writing style is brilliant, ...

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