Commonwealth Saga: Pandora's Star (Audiobook)

from rocalisa

I find myself in two minds about this book. It's good, very good in fact. The prose is easy to read, the science doesn't bog the reader down too much and Hamilton's created worlds and alien species are well done. But it is very long. I've just read 1000+ pages, something I find to be pretty hard ...

from reading_fox

Too long. Really. I mean I like long books, I like intricate detail, and backstoried characters. But this is just silly. There's over 400 pages just setting up one character, and another several couple hundred devoted to another who's just gone off for a walk and doesn't contribute anything to th...

from if0x

Peter F Hamilton first came to my notice when I picked up The Reality Dysfunction in a tiny bookstore in Dorset, purely on the basis that it looked nice and thick, and I had a long train journey ahead of me. At the time, I wasn't aware that The Reality Dysfunction would prove to be the first inst...

from Katyas

Read and reviewed in 2007. Overview of my thoughts: Pandora's Star is an amazing, sweeping - almost epic - version of the space opera that so many of us know and love. Covering a critical juncture in the history of the Commonwealth (taking place approximately 400 years in the future), which is a ...

from jwilker

I found this at our local used book store, and wowza. Granted I'm a sci-fi nut, but Hamilton surprised me, with how deep his universe goes and how well he lays it all out. My only gripe, and this isn't a Hamilton problem, but I had no idea it was a two parter, until I was 7/8s done and the story ...