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Peter F. Hamilton
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The Neutronium AlchemistThe Neutronium Alchemist
The Reality Dysfunction
Watching Trees GrowWatching Trees Grow Newpbk 14 Mar 02


Paperback - Dolphin (1998)
Lightstorm
THE WEB
SUIT UP, HIT THE ACCESS CODE AND …
BE WHO YOU VVANT TO BE GO PLACES YOU WON'T BELIEVE
BUT BE PREFARED TO PAY THE PRICE …
The year: 2027. The place: everywhere.
Ghostly lights out on the marsh have been the subject of tales and rumours for as long as anyone can remember but the reality is far more frightening than any ghost story. Something is going wrong at the nearby energy company and they are trying to keep it a secret. Somebody needs to be told. But Aynsley needs help to do it. The Web keeps him in touch with a network of friends across the world and it might just offer him a way in past the company security to find out exactly what's going on.
But the Web works both ways. If Aynsley can get to the company then the company can get to him. And the company has a way of dealing with intruders.

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Paperback - Pan (1998)
First British Edition Macmillan (1997)
The Neutronium Alchemist
The second volume in the Night's Dawn trilogy
Not every fallen angel comes from heaven...
The ancient menace has finally escaped from Lalonde, shattering the Confederation's peaceful existence. Those who succumbed to it have acquired godlike powers, but now follow a far from divine gospel as they advance inexorably from world to world.
On planets and asteroids, individuals battle for survival against the strange and brutal forces unleashed upon the universe. Governments teeter on the brink of anarchy, the Confederation Navy is dangerously over-stretched, and a dark messiah prepares to invoke his own version of the final Night.
In such desperate times the last thing the galaxy needs is a new and terrifyingly powerful weapon. Yet Dr Alkad Mzu is determined to retrieve the Alchemist - so she can complete her thirty-year-old vendetta to slay a star. Which means Joshua Calvert has to find Dr Mzu and bring her back before the Alchemist can be reactivated.
But he's not alone in the chase, and there are people on both sides who have their own ideas about how to use the ultimate doomsday device.
Peter F. Hamilton's international reputation was well and truly forged with the first in the highly acclaimed Night's Dawn Trilogy - The Reality Dysfunction. This spectacular galactic saga continues with The Neutronium Alchemist. The third and final book in the Night's Dawn Trilogy, The Naked God. will be published in October 1999.
'Well into the new millennium, I'll still be telling strangers how I gobbled the 1,951 pages of The Reality Dysfunction and its sequel The Neutronium Alchemist in just two days…
'The sheer scale of blazing action and galactic pursuit is genuinely impressive. Nanonics-enhanced warriors, intelligent space habitats, X-ray lasers, gamma pulsars, illicit antimatter bombs, whole arsenals of tasty assault weapons and improvised means of destruction… The Neutronium Alchemist is high space opera, a real page turner' SFX
'Hamilton crosses genres with a determination that succeeds effortlessly… Space opera has rarely been dealt with in such majesty… inventive, ambitious and, like the greatest of tumbling acts, leaves you giddy for more' Daily Express
'Hamilton plays chess impressively with his complex array of humans, aliens and exotic locations; his plot is ambitious and coherent.' Irish Times
'Truly imaginative.' The Bookseller
'Heady stuff, played with verve, imagination and just enough of a sense of humour.' Sunday Times
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The Reality Dysfunction
first volume of the Night's Dawn Trilogy

'This is an intergalactic adventure story laced with ironies, insights and held together by a transcending central plot: absolutely vintage science-fiction. Hamilton puts British sci-fi back into interstellar overdrive' The Times
'Eloquent and ingenious ... A host of believable characters deploy amid rich descriptions of worlds and living starships ... It all hangs together compulsively' Daily Telegraph
'Painted on the vast canvas of classic space opera ... the story builds to an explosive climax ... Its mix of star-spanning intrigue and men with big guns will give the remaining American space operas a run for their money, and the climactic cross-genre slide into horror is a brave move that succeeds spectacularly well' SFX
'Hamilton's high-tech nightmare scenario is deeply and grimly persuasive' Northern Echo
'A space opera with a difference… all the disparate plot strands converge to knot together in an exhilarating climax' Starburst
'An epic in the traditional sense of the word - big, brash, sweeping, hyperbolic, exuberant, thoroughly enjoyable' Interzone
'A superbly orchestrated symphony - where minor (but crucial) themes of love, desire, honour, personal sacrifice and discovery are played against the majestic theme of an interstellar civilisation teetering on the edge of chaos... an amazing book' British Fantasy Society Newsletter
'This is space opera like it should be, but so rarely is: vividly painted, of enormous scope and grandeur of vision, peopled by colourful, exciting, believable characters and a real page-turner... If any book deserved a recommendation of "Do not miss", it is this' Critical Wave
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New Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (2002)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk Watching Trees Grow
‘Watching Trees Grow is a mystery and the surest way to tell you what Hamilton has accomplished is to blow away all his secrets. You may want to read the story first.’ Larry Niven
‘Echoing the hugeness of scope of Hamilton’s recent space operas, but plotted like his earlier thrillers, Watching Trees Grow is an extremely striking work.’ Nick Gevers, Infinity Plus
‘Told with such adeptness, it would certainly be a hard act to follow in the novella form… a brilliant adaptation of the murder mystery.’ Enigma

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