Night’s Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton: Reality Disfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist and The Naked God, each volume published in two parts in the US but originally one (each) in the UK.
A Beowulf cluster named Night’s Dawn.
Possibly the best science fiction series of the 1990s, no kidding. You’d think that I would’ve read more of his work but no, never have. Rereading this every few years seems to be satisfactory.
An amazing story with the biggest scope one might imagine, 600 years in the future, Humanity spread across more than 800 star systems, friends with a few alien races, life is good for many though only great for a smaller number. Then the barrier between life and death is breached by some awesomely vile youths and everything is jeapordized.
Hamilton takes more than 3400 pages to tell his tale and I don’t think he wasted a single one. There are wonderful passages of prose, technical inventions galore and characters that are realized and well-fit.
absolutely recommended
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