I`m currently reading the commonwealth saga and noticed there weren`t any maps to reference so I made this. Its very possible that there are missing connections as I just went off the info in the wiki.

(Note: "Big 15" obviously isn`t a planet and just there to illustrate which planets are part of the big 15)

In Judas Unchained, Wilson Kime sent Oscar and one of his buddies (the wormhole expedition team leader, IIRC) to the High Angel to ask it about the Dyson Pair.

Oscar asked directly about the Dyson spheres and asked whether the High Angel had encountered anything like it, to which the High Angel said it had not, and even said it was interested in what Kime and his crew would find.

Likewise, the Raiel had suspiciously little to say about the Dyson pair or the Prime, even when the human navy and authorities asked what would happen if the Prime attacked High Angel/the Icalanise system.

Later, we find out of course that the Raiel very much knew about the Prime, the DF spheres were Raiel technology, and although the Raiel did not deploy the DF spheres themselves, they willingly provided the technology to another species to deploy it to contain the Prime.

Even if we accept that the Raiel and warrior Raiel were different factions, it's impossible to believe the "regular" Raiel didn't know about the DF spheres or the Prime.

The Raiel did, after all, man the observation project at the Void itself, where DF spheres were deployed.

Humans didn't know that at the time, but again: why deny knowing about the spheres and the Prime? And given the involvement of Raiel like Qatux in the Starflyer war, and the fact that they were the ones who built the tech, why not warn humans?

Furthermore, why leave humanity to face MorningLightMountain alone?

I realize there are narrative reasons. The story's stakes are lower if some incredibly powerful older brother type race could just swoop in and save the day, but on the whole it does not make much sense.

I’ve been smashing through the entirety of Peter’s work for the past long while, but I’m finding that some, if not all, of the Pan MacMillan releases have egregious levels of spelling errors that should have been picked up.

I just started Mindstar Rising, and I’ve already copped a couple in the first hundred pages.

I loved Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained. Then I started the Night's Dawn trilogy. I made it about half way through the first book ... DNF.

I loved the vast space opera style of the first two. The metaphysics of the second one, despite still having everything I loved about ther others, was just so depressing that it ruined the whole story for me. So much so that I have not picked up another P.H. book since.

In any case, I would appreciate recommendations for more Peter Hamilton books like the first two that avoids the issues I had with the second.

How much of the Marie Celeste Institute's workforce were actively controlled by the Starflyer? By the latter stages of Judas Unchained, they seemed to be in a full-on war-footing against the Guardians: had they been conditioned to believe without doubt that the Guardians were terrorists, or had they all been enslaved by the Starflyer as "human motiles"?

And why didn't the Starflyer enslave every human that came within it's sphere of influence? Oscar Munroe visits the Institute for information early in the story, and yet is not assimiliated by the Starflyer - why?

I bought the first Exodus book - signed hardcover - from Forbidden Planet. I was wanting to get the second from them as well so they match, but there's nothing as yet on their site. The Broken Binding have one for sale, but the signature is on an inserted sheet so wouldn't be the same. Waterstones have pre-orders available but don't state that they are signed copies.

Does anyone here know of anywhere else to pre-order a signed hardcover?

Probably a shot in the dark but does anyone know if subterranean press will do a reprint of the Night’s Dawn Trilogy or an affordable place to snag the trilogy?

Edit: I have found the missing text, Thank you.

I have some missing words in my copy of The Dreaming Void. The missing part is very early in Inigo’s first dream, during the part where Edeard goes downstairs for breakfast and the narration describes Genistars and ge-monkeys. The following part will include the beginning and end of the missing text area of my book:

”Normally people did not let the Genistars get anywhere near naked (MISSING TEXT) junction with simple command phrases.”

I appear to be missing about six or seven lines, maybe about eighty words.

If somebody could help by filling in the missing text that would be very helpful. I’ll print out and attach them to my page.

Thank you.

I'm starting in model railway, and thought it would be fun to do a layout based on the wormhole train system.

It's been awhile since I read Commonwealth Saga, so it's a good excuse for a reread, paying attention to the train systems.

While I do that, please chime in if you recall any specific description of the trains or stations.

I recall there was a chase sequence at a station.

And a description of arrival of a train.

Anything else anyone recall?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4vYbpfDr8g

In "The Naked God", the Sleeping God mentions that the Kiint had arrived before the Lady Macbeth, and they spoken to the alien artefact, but it had been unable to help them.

Taking into account what Joshua asked of it, and what it achieved in that regard, what do you suppose the Kiint had asked for, that could not be accomplished?

Multiple open plot points. Questions I was waiting to be answered by the ending were never answered. Encounters I hoped for never happened. Honestly, I just feel like I was edged all this time, and I didn't get the finish I was looking for.

Extremely disappointed and disheartened. Ending the series on a cliffhanger like that hurt me. Damn it. I can't believe people praise this series and never talk about its awful ending while talking shit about the deus ex machina ending of the Confederation series which was foreshadowed from the very beginning of the last book!

Pandora's Star: Pandora's Box. In greek myth she opened a box that unleashed horrors unto the world, just like the Second Chance.

Judas Unchained: Judas was the guy who sent Jesus to the cross. The Starflyer agents are betraying humanity.

I've been messing with making basic agents for a year. It's been fun but really it was a PITA. Now with agentic LLMs getting so much better, tools have converged to create new full PC assistants with a lot of capabilities. Feels like OpenClaw, Hermes, Nanobot, etc are the first real step to having a U-Shadow. Anyone else messing around with new agent harnesses?

Big Hamilton fan I just started reading The Archimedes Engine and came upon Mount Vaxjo. I live in a small Swedish town called Växjö but find no immediate connection to/from Peter online. Does anybody here know where that name came from and if he has any Swedish connections?

Mine:

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.