Pandora's Star

Zusatztext “The depth and clarity of the future Hamilton envisions is as complex and involving as they come.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) “The author’s expansive vision of the future combines action and intrigue on a panoramic scale.” —Library Journal “Astounding . . . Thrilling . . . Hamilton uses technology to excellent effect.” —Science Fiction Age “Shows how thought-provoking yet entertaining science fiction can be. Some of the best fiction . . . in years.” —Midwest Book Review “[Hamilton is] taking on one of sf’s (and maybe all of literature’s) primal jobs: the creation of a world with the scale and complexity of the real one.” — Locus “[Hamilton is] a rare talent.” —The Denver Post Informationen zum Autor Peter F. Hamilton Klappentext "An imaginative and stunning tale of the perfect future threatened . . . a book of epic proportions not unlike Frank Herbert's Dune or Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy."-SFRevu The year is 2380. The Intersolar Commonwealth, a sphere of stars, contains more than six hundred worlds interconnected by a web of transport "tunnels" known as wormholes. At the farthest edge of the Commonwealth, astronomer Dudley Bose observes the impossible: over one thousand light-years away, a star . . . disappears. Since the location is too distant to reach by wormhole, the Second Chance, a faster-than-light starship commanded by Wilson Kime, a five-times-rejuvenated ex-NASA pilot, is dispatched to learn what has occurred and whether it represents a threat. Opposed to the mission are the Guardians of Selfhood, led by Bradley Johansson. Shortly after the journey begins, Kime wonders if the crew of the Second Chance has been infiltrated. But soon enough he will have other worries. Halfway across the galaxy, something truly incredible is waiting: a deadly discovery whose unleashing will threaten to destroy the Commonwealth . . . and humanity itself. "Should be high on everyone's reading list . . . You won't be able to put it down."-Nancy Pearl, NPR "Recommended . . . A large cast of characters, each with his own story, brings depth and variety to this far-future saga."-Library Journal Leseprobe ONE The star vanished from the center of the telescope’s image in less time than a single human heartbeat. There was no mistake, Dudley Bose was looking right at it when it happened. He blinked in surprise, drawing back from the eyepiece. “That’s not right,” he muttered. He shivered slightly in reaction to the cold air around him, slapping gloved hands against his arms. His wife, Wendy, had insisted he wrap up well against the night, and he’d dutifully left the house in a thick woolen coat and sturdy hiking trousers. As always when the sun fell below Gralmond’s horizon, any warmth in the planet’s thinner-than-average atmosphere dissipated almost immediately. With the telescope housing open to the elements at two o’clock in the morning, the temperature had dropped enough to turn his every breath into a stream of gray mist. Dudley shook the fatigue from his head, and leaned back into the eyepiece. The starfield pattern was the same—there had been no slippage in the telescope’s alignment—but Dyson Alpha was still missing. “It couldn’t be that fast,” he said. He’d been observing the Dyson Pair for fourteen months now, searching for the first clues of the envelopment that would so dramatically alter the emission spectrum. Until tonight there had been no change to the tiny yellow speck of light twelve hundred forty light-years away from Gralmond that was Dyson Alpha. He’d known there would be a change; it was the astronomy department at Oxford University back on Earth that had first noticed the anomoly during a routine sky scan back in 2170, two hundred and...

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The depth and clarity of the future Hamilton envisions is as complex and involving as they come. Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The author s expansive vision of the future combines action and intrigue on a panoramic scale. Library Journal

Astounding . . . Thrilling . . . Hamilton uses technology to excellent effect. Science Fiction Age

Shows how thought-provoking yet entertaining science fiction can be. Some of the best fiction . . . in years. Midwest Book Review

[Hamilton is] taking on one of sf s (and maybe all of literature s) primal jobs: the creation of a world with the scale and complexity of the real one. Locus

[Hamilton is] a rare talent. The Denver Post

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Peter F Hamilton, Peter F. Hamilton
• Verlag: Del Rey
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 25.01.2005
• EAN: 9780345479211
• ISBN: 978-0-345-47921-1
• Seiten: 988
• Abmessung: 107 mm x 175 mm x 36 mm
• Serien: A Del Rey Book; Commonwealth Saga; Commonwealth Saga; A Del Rey Book
• Thema: Belletristik > Science Fiction, Fantasy