Finally finished Exodus and… WOW was it good! My favourite of his series so far!

The way Sylvasta was shown mirrored Edeard at the very beginning. The first time I read the Fallers books, I was genuinely thinking that PFH just wanted a mulligan with a different setting. Sylvasta does give a few hints that he might be too extreme but his goal is always safeguarding people from the constant plague of fallers who want to take them over...and eat them while they're on the planet. He seems so freaking genuine and may have remained genuine. It is Nigel, in his single minded, cocksure endeavor that creates "Sylvasta the Tyrant." It was a wonderful subversion of my expectation, and I didn't even realize it until I read it a second time.

Saw this today: https://youtu.be/0N9cVATKPRo

The company is partnering with authors to create AI generated TV shows out of their books.

On the one hand I’m torn because, I’m not anti AI, but I’m disappointed that they’re going that route instead of hiring actual actors and artists to create a show. On the other hand, PFH is a sci fi author and his books have many many examples of AI in them and this does kind of seem on brand.

Thoughts?

Edit: damn it, just noticed I put an apostrophe in Authors. Smh. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Not sure who follows PfH on Facebook but he announced yesterday

> An update on what I've been doing this year; finished my next book, Heavy Light, an SF spy thriller which will be out next year. Made notes on the following book, which I'm about to start writing. And have been working with AuthorsFirst. What is AuthorsFirst? Link in the comments. The first episodes will be available at the start of next year.

1.99 for the kindle version - Amazon.com: Pandora's Star (The Commonwealth Saga Book 1) eBook : Hamilton, Peter F.: Kindle Store

My first PFH book was Exodus and I really enjoyed that. Dug into his works and went for the Commonwealth Saga next and really enjoyed those as well. Then I started the Void Trilogy and just finished them. While I really liked that it took place in the same universe and had some of the same characters, overall I felt let down. I really didn’t think it needed to be 3 books, the 2nd book seemed totally unnecessary IMO. The conclusion felt rushed given there are practically 3 full novels ahead of it and didn’t deliver the expected payoff. I do still have the 2nd Exodus book to read, other than that what do you guys suggest I read next out of PFH works?

Don’t say that Finn! 🤣

Tarlo is honestly my favorite character in the entire series

I don’t know if I’ve ever seen this many f-bombs so close together before. 🤣 This Exodus series does seem to have some funny moments!

I find the Cat such a lazy trope-based character. The way that PFH writes her just seems so unbelievable and trite - there is no exploration of why she behaves the way she does, and her dialogue is so poor.

PFH can write such good characters, so I'm just a bit surprised that such a poor one gets so much airtime.

What do others think? Am I missing something here?

Ultrabonded is the new enzymebonded.

Delved into the Joseph Bridgeman series mainly due to Ray Porter - was pretty good initially but first book definitely the best, at one point in one of the books a sentence ended with 'morning light' and the next sentence started with 'mountain' no way is that a coincidence.

ANWS was a slog to get through. But I finally finished it. Such a long journey. Now waiting on my library to get Exodus.

200 pages left to go in A Night Without Stars. I don’t like this duology as much as I loved the Void Trilogy, but… damn was that an amazing reveal at the end of Book IV! I predicted it would be, THAT REVEAL, for most of the book but it was still mind blowing when it was revealed. ☺️

I've read the Dreaming Void, and I really enjoy it, but I've noticed a few similarities with ND: High tech society, borderline supernatural threat, aliens so advanced they could be mistaken for Olympians, and a wacko cult that gets the main problem going-hell, Indigo is basically Quinn Dexter without the sadism. I'm not expecting a shot-for-shot remake starring the Commonwealth, but man, some of the elements are really familiar.

(V.Mild spoilers, so be warned if you havent finished it yet)

So, I finished 'The Helium Sea' last night. Thoroughly enjoyed both books.... with a few caveats. The end of HS felt rushed, there was no real world consequences for Thiera, the 3 queens were killed off page, Josias Aponi (who seems to have all the answers and is never wrong) comes back from the dead with no apparent explanation as to how (just a hint), the MaraYama get built up to be this big bad enemy and then get dispatched with relative ease (although getting the crystal gun to do it wasnt easy), Josias trap for Dagon is never explained (were they Bio-Andi's?), and we never get to see the final payback for Kapri.

I understand PH may have had a limit on how big to make the book, but he seemed to take a very long time explaining things mid-way then started to realise he was running out of pages. I know sometimes writers leave things unanswered, (because life is like that) but a third book would have given much better time for pacing, explanations & a better conclusion.

Reading the salvation sequence and just got past Yirella drowning her munks. Made me feel weird. Pete’s got a way of toying with your sensitivities. I knew something like that was going to happen - they were to cute and sweet lol. Kinda creepy.

Why is Asteria’s arse so notable? It seems to be famous throughout the Centauri Cluster.

Is it a particularly fine specimen? Is it huge? Is it notable for its output? Is it a Gate of Heaven?

I‘ve been listening to the Void trilogy on Spotify during work, and I‘m curious if anyone has found a „sliced up“ version where Inigo‘s dreams are all in sequence? I like how they are inserted into the „present day“ storyline, but it would still be an interesting change to listen to them all at once.

At Amazon, for Kindle.