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If all the dimming star headlines are piquing your interest, you must read Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained by Alexander Hamilton. It's about the same event
by zombees 10y ago
If all the dimming star headlines are piquing your interest, you must read Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained by Alexander Hamilton. It's about the same event being observed but a couple hundred years from now in a post FTL society, so naturally they have to wander out and see what's up. The pair is one of the best recent science fiction stories to come out in the past 15 years.
- siquick 10y agoGonna check it out, thanks.
- imron 10y agoCame here to suggest this. Pandora's Star is an excellent (albeit long) read. Note however, the author is Peter F. Hamilton.
- 13of40 10y agoJust bought it on Audible, and apparently it's 37 hours long...
- kchoudhu 10y agoYeah, Hamilton really gets into world building. Often to the detriment of actual storytelling -- which on its day, is actually quite good. I'd still recommend these books though. Edit to add: Hamilton also wrote The Void Trilogy, set in the same universe as The Commonwealth Saga. They're interesting, but less so than the Commonwealth books.
- jamie_ca 10y agoRecently read it on my phone, which tells me it took 27.4 hours, or about the same as Scott Lynch's first two Gentlemen Bastards novels (also a good read, for different reasons), or a bit longer than the first 4 Dresden Files.
- zombees 10y agoLast time I write stuff while tired...
- sparky_z 10y agoPretty sure you mean Peter F Hamilton, there. Alexander was a different guy.