Series
Greg Mandel
Mindstar
Rising
A former member of the Mindstar Battalion, Greg
Mandel turns freelance operative and uses his powerful telepathic
powers to search for the truth in a high-tech, dangerous futuristic
world.
A
Quantum Murder
Mandel must investigate the murder of professor
Edward Kitchener, a double Nobel laureate who had been researching
quantum cosmology for the powerful Event Horizon conglomerate.
The
Nano Flower
Julia Evans, the unimaginably wealthy owner of Event
Horizon, has the
world at her fingertips. Event Horizon's technology is the driving
force of a new economic renaissance. But trouble threatens the
company's almost unassailable dominance. Julia's computer-genius
husband is missing, and rivals are claiming to have acquired impossibly
advanced technology. Julia hardly notices a mysterious gift of flowers,
but these flowers have DNA unlike anything found on Earth.
Is it a cryptic alien
message or a poignant farewell from her husband?
Only Greg Mandel can discover the truth, but he is not alone in his
desperate search. A vicious mercenary killer, a ruthless arms dealer,
and a high-priced courtesan all have a part to play.
*** Haven't
got to these yet, but I will.
Night's Dawn
The
Reality
Dysfunction
In AD2600 the human race is finally beginning to
realise its full potential.
Hundreds of colonised
planets scattered across the galaxy host a
multitude of prosperous and wildly diverse cultures. Genetic
engineering has pushed evolution far beyond nature's boundaries,
defeating disease and producing extraordinary spaceborn creatures.
Huge fleets of
sentient trader starships thrive on the wealth created
by the industrialisation of entire star systems. And thoughout
inhabited space the Confederation Navy keeps the peace.
A true golden age is
within our grasp.
But now something has
gone catastrophically wrong. On a primitive
coloney planet a renegade criminal's chance encounter with an utterly
alien entity unleashes the most primal of all our fears. An extinct
race which inhabited the galaxy aeons ago called it 'The Reality
Dysfunction'. It is the nightmare which has prowled beside us since the
beginning of history.
The
Neutronium Alchemist
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.
The Naked God
Hell just went quantum...
The Confederation is starting to collapse
politically and economically, allowing the `possessed' to infiltrate
more worlds.
Quinn Dexter is loose on Earth, destroying the
giant arcologies one at
a time. As Louise Kavanagh tries to track him down, she manages to
acquire some strange and powerful allies whose goal doesn't quite match
her own.
The campaign to liberate Mortonridge from the
possessed degenerates
into a horrendous land battle, the kind which hasn't been seen by
humankind for six hundred years; then some of the protagonists escape
in a very unexpected direction.
Joshua Calvert and Syrinx fly their starships on
a mission to find the
Sleeping God - which an alien race believes holds the key to
overthrowing the possessed.
Satisfyingly epic and yet intricate.
Some may be intimidated by the length, breadth . . . the universal
scope of this body of work, but it's damned well worth the time.
I was replete after I finished this series . . . yet, somehow, I still
wanted more.
Commonwealth Saga
Pandora's
Star (Review Contains
Spoilers)
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. Does it indicate some kind of galactic conflict?
Judas Unchained
It is around the year AD2400 and a war between
humans and Gaens is raging over many starsystems. Against this
backdrop, Captain Wilson Kime confides to Paula Myo, chief investigator
at the Intersolar Serious Crimes Directorate, his belief that humans
are being manipulated. With the help of the one creature she can trust,
Qatux, a Raiel, Paula Myo's team set out on an investigation to
discover the unknown entity responsible for corrupting the humans,
which leads to a race against time as both humans and Gaen hurry to
deploy their new doomsday weapons.
These
were the first two books I read by Peter F. Hamilton. His skills
at world-building are astounding and he doesn't forget the importance
of individuals either. I've been playing catch up ever since (as
my book budget allows)..
Void Trilogy
The Dreaming Void
John
Harris
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The Dreaming Void
At
the centre of the Intersolar Commonwealth
universe is a massive black hole. This Void is not a natural artefact.
Inside there is a strange universe where the laws of physics are very
different to those we know. It is slowly consuming the other stars of
the galactic core - one day it will have devoured the entire galaxy.
It's AD 4000, and a human has started to dream of the wonderful
existence of the Void. He has a following of millions of believers.
They now wish to Pilgrimage to the Void to live the life they have been
shown. Other starfaring species fear their migration will cause the
Void to expand again. They are prepared to stop the Pilgrimage fleet no
matter what the cost. The Pilgrimage begins...
I just finished "The Dreaming
Void." It's absolutely fantastic. Many friends from the
Commonwealth Saga are still around . . . and that's all I'm going to
say about the plot. I don't want to give anything away. I just
wish I didn't have to wait another year for the next book.
Novels
Watching Trees Grow
David Hardy
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Fallen Dragon
Jim
Burns
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Misspent Youth
Jim Burns
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Watching Trees Grow
In
an alternate England of 1832, the scientific revolution of the
post-Roman occupation is underway.
It is a time where lives average four centuries and the Grand Families
of Europe preside over an
era of economic prosperity. Wars are no more and crime is almost
non-existent.
Edward Bucahanan Raleigh, newly-qualified family representative is
called in to investigate the almost unheard of act of
murder. It has been better than 20 years since a member of the powerful
Raleigh family has been killed.
He begins an investigation of a dead student which baffles both the
police and more experienced family members. There is apparently no
motive. The victim had no enemies, only a group of friends who adored
him. No clues lead to a murderer.
In episodic fashion, we follow Edward's initiatives over the centuries
as he employes new technologies in his pursuit of a killer
through the solar system and out to the stars.
Fallen
Dragon
Born in a
colony world in 2310, Lawrence Newton hankered after the
golden era of starships exploring the galaxy. But the age of human
starflight was drawing to a close, so this hot-heated teenager ran away
from home in search of adventure... Twenty years later, he's the
sergeant of a washed-out platoon taking part in the bungled invasion of
another world. The giant corporations euphemistically call such
campaigns 'asset realization', but in practice it's simple piracy.
While he's on the ground, being shot at and firebombed by local
resistance forces, Lawrence hears stories about the Temple of the
Fallen Dragon -- and a sect devoted to the worship of a mythical
creature that fell to the ground millennia ago. More importantly, its
priests are said to guard a hoard of treasure large enough to buy
lifelong happiness -- which information prompts him to mount a
private-enterprise operation of his own. For Lawrence, such wealth
would allow him one last chance to put right the mistakes of his past
-- and finally go home. But, unfortunately, treasure isn't always
measured in monetary terms. And just because something is called
mythical doesn't mean it isn't real...
Misspent Youth
From the author
of the magnificent 'Night's Dawn' trilogy, a
provocative look at the days not too long after tomorrow It is forty
years into the future and, following decades of research and trillions
of Euros spent on genetics, Europe is finally in a position to
rejuvenate a human being. As the first subject for treatment, is chosen
Jeff Baker - the father of the datasphere (which replaced the internet)
and philanthropist extraordinaire. After eighteen months in a German
medical facility, the seventy-eight-year-old patient returns home
looking like a healthy twenty-year-old. MISSPENT YOUTH follows the
effect his reappearance has on his family and friends -- his young
ex-model wife Sue, his teenage son Tim, and also on his long-term pals
who are now themselves all pensioners, and starting to resent what Jeff
has become.
"Fallen
Dragon" was exciting,character driven, yet the politics and the science
were not neglected by any means.
Collections
Second Chance At
Eden
2090
"A
Second Chance at Eden"
The
new police chief on a new world must solve the ultimate locked-room
mystery-how can there be an unsolved murder on a sentient habitat that
is linked to the minds of all who dwell within it?
2393
"Candy
Buds"
A
blind boy, an orphaned girl, and an enigmatic bitek machine are
creating edible memories of dreams, fantasies-and nightmares...
2447
"The
Lives and Loves of Tiarella Rosa"
A
fugitive terrorist crosses worlds to find love-and learn the steps one
woman will take to protect her destiny.
2586
"Escape
Route"
The
Lady Macbeth discovers an ancient, derelict xenoc starship-now
Captain Marcus Calvert must unlock its alien secrets in time to save
his crew...
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