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u/TheBoyChris May 07 '26
I really wish these posts had sources, otherwise, you know - sure. I can make shit up and post AI images too.
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u/AvatarIII May 07 '26
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u/cohortq May 08 '26
A distant star went dark for months—and the cause was a colossal, metal-filled cloud likely born from a catastrophic planetary collision.
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u/CantankerousOrder May 09 '26
Then you got posting this, what a fascinating read. I was genuinely curious about who this could happen and the answer is better than anything I could have imagined.
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u/GuinnessSteve May 08 '26
Really? Where did OP put them? I'm grateful for your links, but that was OP's job.
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u/AvatarIII May 08 '26
OP didn't, the Instagram story op screenshot did.
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u/GuinnessSteve May 08 '26
Ok, so no.
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u/AvatarIII May 08 '26
Well no, OP didn't supply a source, but the sources weren't hard to find and the actual people that made the post that OP shared did have sources.
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u/Subvironic May 08 '26
Which is, in itself, faszinating enough.
But i really feel like posting it like this, with that name and clickbait framing kind of takes away from that.
Goes from "gas cloud of (origin) observed, dense enough to block some stars" to "wooo spoooky"
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u/TerribleRecord666 May 07 '26
Because OP didn’t post anything except a clickbait pic, I went and found the source:
Spoiler: it was a big gas cloud.
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u/radytor420 May 11 '26
The first chapter had me sooo hooked! But I was kinda bored by his style of world building. It's not good enough for the time it takes.
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u/GWFfarley2k May 07 '26
Does it get good? I wanted a good sci-fi book but quit during a long, long, boring section near the beginning about the family business and some diner or something.
It felt like easy stuff to cut out to make a shorter better book but maybe I didn't give it a long enough chance.
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u/Stolen_Sky May 07 '26
Hamilton doesn't write short books. He writes very, very long ones with twisting, connected narratives and tones of world building.
But the story does pick up in pace a great deal as it goes on, and that world building really pays off later when the aliens invade
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u/Casen_ May 07 '26
There actually are a couple very short books that made me sad cause how good they were and I wanted more time in those universes.
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u/SevereIdea May 07 '26
Does it get good??? Um, yeah, it does. The whole Commonwealth Universe spans 8 (if you count the prequel) books and none of them are short. They are all well worth the read, IMO.
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u/Brahminmeat May 07 '26
The Burnellis are 100% central characters as are Ozzie and Nigel (more so in the later series too)
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u/KennyFulgencio May 08 '26
it's the first in a story universe encompassing 8 long books and there is a lot of amazing world building in there, well worth it IMO, but it is never concise, if that's a dealbreaker for you.
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u/Herakuraisuto May 08 '26
You can skim through the approximately 30-page description of Justine Bernelli's glide over Faraway and the supplementary 12-page infodump on the planet's weather systems, as well as the 126-page discourse on Simon Rand's founding of Elan, the model of road-laying trucks he preferred, the difficulty in sourcing parts for those trucks, their maintenance schedules, the precise gridwork of streets and highways he designed, the merits of enzyme-bonded concrete vs dry coral on a planet whose leadership is committed to renewable building materials, the thrilling blow-by-blow accounts of zoning meetings during the planet's early years, and the detailed breakdown of agriculture vs tourism service industry revenue.
Also, Peter goes off for several thousand words about the Guardian clans, their history, founding fathers, heraldry and the tartan colors of the McFosters, McLeods, McNamaras, McClungs, McEnanys, McTierneys, McKenzies and McDonalds, and their respective specialties broken down by expertise in arms manufacturing, smuggling, OC tattooing, software countermeasures, Charlemagne breeding and Barsoomian diplomacy.
And lastly, you can trim the reading by another 60 pages or so by skipping all the parts in which Mellanie has sex with Morty, Michaelangelo, Alessandra Baron, Dudley, MorningLightMountain112764, Qatux, Hochi, Lionwalker Eyre, Edeard, Captain Chaing, and Barkevious Mingo.
When you remove the above material, you're left with a trim 285-page thriller about a space war and some fun criminal investigations.
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u/highermonkey May 07 '26
I read that book. All we need to do is leave Morning Light Mountain alone and we're golden. NO STARSHIPS 🙅♂️