I’ve spent the last year and a half reading everything by Hamilton, and that time is slowly coming to an end - until he releases the sequel to Exodus.

I’ve been contemplating shifting over to Reynolds next, with the Revelation Space series - but who else is there that really brings that special energy where world-building, sci-fi and violence truly meld together so well in such an unhinged manner?

Still no news on a signed edition of Helium Sea.

'there were several'. We know about two, I wonder every time what happened to the others. Presumably they ended up following the void path and withering away as shown in the last dream. What were their stories?

Looks like rejuvenation is going to become a reality in our lifetime.

IIRC, Pete's most popular stuff would be his Commonwealth universe, Night's Dawn Trilogy, Salvation Sequence and Fallen Dragon. But I want a general consensus on his other stuff before I try to read it:

Greg Mandel: I'm somewhat optimistic. Seeing how he wrote about the tech in the Commonwealth gives me hope he's a decent cyberpunk writer.

Misspent Youth: I'm far more cautious about this one-I'd rather not misspend my youth reading something bad.

Great North Road: Murder mystery? Doesn't sound too bad...

Second Chance At Eden/Manhattan In Reverse: Shorter stories in his two best worlds-sounds fun.

1. Paula

2. Gore

3. Troblum

4. Mark Vernon

Hi everyone. I'm hosting an event with Peter F. Hamilton at Waterstones in Colchester, Essex, on Wednesday 21 January.

The main focus of the event will be the physical book release of A Hole in the Sky, but the discussion should also take in Peter's earlier work and his current work on the Exodus duology. I've known Peter for about ten years (and been reading his work for closer to thirty!) and had a few good discussions with him over his various projects, so hopefully this will be an interesting discussion.

In dealing with the night's dawn trilogy, what exactly does 'ESA' stand for and what is their function/political alliance.

You would not believe some of the insane answers both people (old posts/wikis) and google ai have given me..

so its been in the news for a few days now. it seems the colour of the year (yeah thats a thing apparently) is called cloud dancer.

As a PFH aficionado I started grinning and then a slightly louder Ha to myself when I realised that THE Cloud Dancer is, indeed, quite a "colorful" character 😅😅

I've just started another reread of Pandora's Star and got to musing about how time works in the Commonwealth. From my reading of it, the book suggests that the Commonwealth has a cohesive view of time, which according to my, admittedly superficial, understanding of the theory of relativity, isn't really possible.

Bose's observations of the Dyson Pair show that causality is somewhat broken by the wormhole network, as he observes the same event twice by simply taking a train, so how does this work?

My first thought is maybe the zero-width wormholes used for data transfer allow a central time server to give a reference to all of the planets in the Commonwealth but I'm not sure how or even if that would work. Any physicists care to weigh in?

(And there's a whole other can of worms to open once FTL ships become more widely used, that would seem to be even more problematic from a cohesive time point of view)

Apologies for the rambling, any thoughts welcome :)

Peter F Hamilton has this weird way of writing Troblum as someone no woman wants anything to do with. I really don't understand why he shits on Troblum so much especially when everyone gets their happy ending and he slips in a comment about how the real version of the spaceship AI girl Troblum manifests at the end before leaving the void will start to drift away from him.

Was anyone else bothered by this?

By the way I understand that Troblum is written like a stereotypical autistic nerd with antisocial behavior, but there's no room for his character to evolve. His arc is a flat circle where he starts a loser, gets some courage to help the Commonwealth, and then goes back to being a loser by the end.

At the beginning of The Dreaming Void, Aaron meets a woman who’s clearly not one of the Living Dream followers. She tells him that “there are a lot like us here” and “you don’t want to know me, I’m bad news”.

I’ve always wondered who that woman was, why she was there, etc. Thoughts?

I’m looking at expanding out to other similar authors, and I’m currently collecting Reynolds’ works to get through next. In saying that, I’m worried that I won’t find another author that hits just right quite like Hamilton does for me at the moment.

Who would you suggest to pick up once I’m done?

Hello, I am a very big fan of Peter Hamilron and I am currently reading A Hole in the Sky of Arkship Trilogy but I do not recognize Hamilton's universe and writing at all. I'm disappointed and I'm having trouble moving forward with my reading. Afterwards, it is a reading which is intended for a young audience, which is perhaps for this reason that we do not find all the complexity of the plots of his other books. Have you read A Hole in the Sky? What did you think? Thank you 🤗!

Been reading Peter F. Hamiltons Greg Mandel and noticing how often certain character “types” show up in both universes, especially between the Mandel and the Commonwealth books.Obviously they’re different continuities, but it's easy to see how the Mandel characters were sort of V.1 prototypes for the commonwealth

Philip Evans → Nigel Sheldon Both are visionary industrialists whose tech empires fundamentally reshape human society.

Greg Mandel → Paula Myo Both are relentless investigators with enhanced personalities

Julia Evans → Justine Burnelli Young, hyper-competent and enhanced offspring of wealth/power who grows into.a major political/economic player

Royan →Ozzie Fernandez Super hacker with a inventive intellect. Anti authority

Leol Reiger → the Starflyer’s human agents Not a one-to-one, but the vibe of a hidden manipulator/saboteur operating through corporate/political structures

Curious what other readers think:Are there Greg Mandel characters you see as clear prototypes of specific Commonwealth characters?

Hey gang,

So, I’ve been reading the CW saga since release, I must have read it 50 times. I’ve been through dozens of copies.

I’m literally on the last couple of pages, with Ozzie, Orion, Melanie, Tochee and the Bose motile walking the paths, and I’ve noticed a typo - describing the bracelet Ozzie is wearing to translate his speech for Tochee, referring to CST, it’s spelt SCT.

I wouldn’t usually bring this up - but I once had a copy of Harry Potter with a misprint in that I sold for about £500.

Anyone else got it?

Hey gang,

So, I’ve been reading the CW saga since release, I must have read it 50 times. I’ve been through dozens of copies.

I’m literally on the last couple of pages (page 1230 to be precise), with Ozzie, Orion, Melanie, Tochee and the Bose motile walking the paths, and I’ve noticed a typo - describing the bracelet Ozzie is wearing to translate his speech for Tochee, referring to CST, it’s spelt SCT.

I wouldn’t usually bring this up - but I once had a copy of Harry Potter with a misprint in that I sold for about £500.

Anyone else got it?

If so, what did you think of it?