The Abyss Beyond Dreams: A Novel of the Commonwealth (Commonwealth: Chronicle of the Fallers) Book Info
Series: Commonwealth: Chronicle of the Fallers
Hardcover: 640 pages
Publisher: Del Rey (October 21, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345547195
ISBN-13: 978-0345547194
Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6 x 2.1 inches
The Abyss Beyond Dreams: A Novel of the Commonwealth (Commonwealth: Chronicle of the Fallers) Book Synopsis
New York Times bestselling author and science-fiction megastar Peter F. Hamilton makes his triumphant return to the universe of his acclaimed Void Trilogy with the first novel in a brand-new two-part series.
The year is 3326. Nigel Sheldon, one of the founders of the Commonwealth, receives a visit from the Raiel self-appointed guardians of the Void, the enigmatic construct at the core of the galaxy that threatens the existence of all that lives. The Raiel convince Nigel to participate in a desperate scheme to infiltrate the Void.
Once inside, Nigel discovers that humans are not the only life forms to have been sucked into the Void, where the laws of physics are subtly different and mental powers indistinguishable from magic are commonplace. The humans trapped there are afflicted by an alien species of biological mimics the Fallers that are intelligent but merciless killers.
Yet these same aliens may hold the key to destroying the threat of the Void forever if Nigel can uncover their secrets. As the Fallers’ relentless attacks continue, and the fragile human society splinters into civil war, Nigel must uncover the secrets of the Fallers before he is killed by the very people he has come to save.
The Abyss Beyond Dreams: A Novel of the Commonwealth (Commonwealth: Chronicle of the Fallers) Book Review
Of course, the second part of this duology needs to live up to the staggering promise of the first for the above to become a reality, but so far, so very good.
While 'The Abyss Beyond Dreams' is technically the seventh novel in the Commonwealth saga (which began with 2002's 'Misspent Youth'), it still makes for a more-than-suitable entry point into the universe, as Hamilton does an excellent job getting the reader up to speed on all the future-tech and lingo, the history of the Commonwealth, and the nature of the mysterious Void, a black hole-like spatial anomaly about which not much at all is known, other than the fact that it's expanding, and that an ancient race known as the Raiel have been guarding it for a million years. Past expeditions into the Void by the Raiel have failed, as none have ever returned.
All the background exposition is seamlessly integrated into the story, which mostly takes place in the same time-frame as the recent Void Trilogy, though it begins a couple hundred years earlier, opening with 90 pages of pure horror. There's an eerie, ominous intensity here that's rarely equaled in modern SF (or modern horror for that matter). Science-team members aboard the giant starship Vermillion on a mission to found a new settlement away from the Commonwealth are prematurely brought out of suspension to find that the ship has somehow been sucked into the Void, even though their flight path took them nowhere within light-years of it. They don't know how this is possible, but they do know that no one's ever made it out. They soon discover that the Void is exponentially larger on the inside, like a Möbius strip, and that basic laws of physics like temporal flow are out of whack. Get online The Abyss Beyond Dreams: A Novel of the Commonwealth (Commonwealth: Chronicle of the Fallers) today.
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