Pandora's Star
Author(s): Peter F. Hamilton
In AD 2329, humanity has colonised over four hundred planets, all of them interlinked by wormholes. With Earth at its centre, the Intersolar Commonwealth now occupies a sphere of space approximately four hundred light years across. When an astronomer on the outermost world of Gralmond, observes a star 2000 light years distant - and then a neighbouring one - vanish, it is time for the Commonwealth to discover what happened to them. For what if their disappearance indicates some kind of galactic conflict? Since a conventional wormhole cannot be used to reach these vanished stars, for the first time humans need to build a faster-than-light starship, the Second Chance. But it arrives to find each 'vanished' star encased in a giant force field -- and within one of them resides a massive alien civilisation.
General Information
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- : Pan Books
- : Pan Books
- : 28 February 2005
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Peter F. Hamilton
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 823.914
- : 1152
- : Science fiction
More About The Product
Peter F. Hamilton was born in Rutland in 1960, and still lives near Rutland Water. His previous novels are the 'Greg Mandel' series: Mindstar Rising (1993), A Quantum Murder (1994) and The Nano Flower (1995); and the 'Night's Dawn' trilogy: The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist and The Naked God. Also published by Macmillan (and Pan) is A Second Chance at Eden, a novella and six short stories set in the same universe, and The Confederation Handbook, a vital guide to the 'Night's Dawn' trilogy. His most recent two novels were Fallen Dragon and Misspent Youth.
