Judas Unchained

Zusatztext Advance praise for Judas Unchained For flat-out huge widescreen all-engines-at-full I-dare-you-not-to-believe-it space opera, there is no one quite like Peter F. Hamilton. Richard K. Morgan, author of Altered Carbon and Market Forces Praise for Pandora's Star Should be high on everyone's reading list . . . You won't be able to put it down. Nancy Pearl, National Public Radio An imaginative and stunning tale of the perfect future threatened . . . a book of epic proportions not unlike Frank Herbert's Dune or Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy. SFRevu Recommended . . . A large cast of characters, each with his own story, brings depth and variety to this far-future saga. Library Journal Complex and engaging. Booklist Informationen zum Autor Peter F. Hamilton is the author of numerous short stories and novels, including Pandora's Star, Fallen Dragon, and the acclaimed epic Night's Dawn trilogy (The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, and The Naked God). Hamilton lives in England. Klappentext WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • "An interstellar suspense thriller . . . sweeping in scope and emotional range."-San Antonio Express-News In the star-spanning civilization known as the Intersolar Commonwealth! twenty-three planets have fallen victim to the Prime! a technologically advanced alien species genetically hardwired to exterminate all other forms of life. But the Prime is not the only threat. The Starflyer! an alien with mind-control abilities impossible to detect or resist! has secretly infiltrated the Commonwealth and is sabotaging the war effort. Is the Starflyer an ally of the Prime! or has it orchestrated a fight to the death between the two species for its own advantage? Caught between two deadly enemies! the fractious Commonwealth must unite as never before. This will be humanity's finest hour-or its last gasp. Praise for Judas Unchained! the sequel to Pandora's Star "Bristles with the energy of golden age SF! but the style and characterizations are polished and modern."-SF Site "You're in for quite a ride."-The Santa Fe New Mexican "The reader is left breathless in amazement."-SFRevu Leseprobe Right from the start, there was something about the investigation that made Lieutenant Renne Kampasa uneasy. The first little qualm came sliding up out of her subconscious when she saw the victim's loft apartment. She'd been inside loft apartments just like it a hundred times before. It was the kind of plush metropolitan pad that a group of funky TSI soap characters usually lived in: beautiful single people with well-paying jobs that gave them most of the day off so they could enjoy a floor space of around five hundred square meters as they lounged around in an extravagant decor provided by overpriced interior designers. The kind of scenario completely divorced from real life but full of dramatic or comic potential for the scriptwriters. Yet here she was, a day after the Guardians' shotgun message that denounced President Elaine Doi as a Starflyer agent, being shown into just such an apartment on the top ßoor of a refurbished factory block in Daroca, the capital city of Arevalo. The massive open-plan lounge had a wide sunny balcony that looked out over the Caspe River which flowed through the heart of the city. Like all the capitals of successful phase one space planets, Daroca was a rich montage of parks, elegant buildings, and broad streets stretching away to the horizon. Under the planet's bronze-shaded morning sunlight it glimmered with a sharp coronal hue, adding to the panorama's graceful appeal. Renne shook her head in mild disbelief at the fabulous view. Even with the decent salary the navy paid her, she could never afford the rent on this. And it was currently being paid by three first-life girls, all under twenty-five. One of them was sho...

Advance praise for Judas Unchained

“For flat-out huge widescreen all-engines-at-full I-dare-you-not-to-believe-it space opera, there is no one quite like Peter F. Hamilton.”
–Richard K. Morgan, author of Altered Carbon and Market Forces

Praise for Pandora’s Star

“Should be high on everyone’s reading list . . . You won’t be able to put it down.”
–Nancy Pearl, National Public Radio

“An imaginative and stunning tale of the perfect future threatened . . . a book of epic proportions not unlike Frank Herbert’s Dune or Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy.”
–SFRevu

“Recommended . . . A large cast of characters, each with his own story, brings depth and variety to this far-future saga.”
–Library Journal

“Complex and engaging.”
–Booklist

Autorentext

Peter F. Hamilton is the author of numerous short stories and novels, including Pandora’s Star, Fallen Dragon, and the acclaimed epic Night’s Dawn trilogy (The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, and The Naked God). Hamilton lives in England.

Klappentext

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • "An interstellar suspense thriller . . . sweeping in scope and emotional range."-San Antonio Express-News

In the star-spanning civilization known as the Intersolar Commonwealth, twenty-three planets have fallen victim to the Prime, a technologically advanced alien species genetically hardwired to exterminate all other forms of life. But the Prime is not the only threat. The Starflyer, an alien with mind-control abilities impossible to detect or resist, has secretly infiltrated the Commonwealth and is sabotaging the war effort. Is the Starflyer an ally of the Prime, or has it orchestrated a fight to the death between the two species for its own advantage? Caught between two deadly enemies, the fractious Commonwealth must unite as never before. This will be humanity's finest hour-or its last gasp.

Praise for Judas Unchained, the sequel to Pandora's Star

"Bristles with the energy of golden age SF, but the style and characterizations are polished and modern."-SF Site

"You're in for quite a ride."-The Santa Fe New Mexican

"The reader is left breathless in amazement."-SFRevu

Zusammenfassung
WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER  • “An interstellar suspense thriller . . . sweeping in scope and emotional range.”—San Antonio Express-News

In the star-spanning civilization known as the Intersolar Commonwealth, twenty-three planets have fallen victim to the Prime, a technologically advanced alien species genetically hardwired to exterminate all other forms of life. But the Prime is not the only threat. The Starflyer, an alien with mind-control abilities impossible to detect or resist, has secretly infiltrated the Commonwealth and is sabotaging the war effort. Is the Starflyer an ally of the Prime, or has it orchestrated a fight to the death between the two species for its own advantage? Caught between two deadly enemies, the fractious Commonwealth must unite as never before. This will be humanity’s finest hour—or its last gasp.

Praise for Judas Unchained, the sequel to Pandora’s Star

“Bristles with the energy of golden age SF, but the style and characterizations are polished and modern.”—SF Site

“You’re in for quite a ride.”—The Santa Fe New Mexican

“The reader is left breathless in amazement.”—SFRevu

Leseprobe
Right from the start, there was something about the investigation that made Lieutenant Renne Kampasa uneasy. The first little qualm came sliding up out of her subconscious when she saw the victim’s loft apartment. She’d been inside loft apartments just like it a hundred times before. It was the kind of plush metropolitan pad that a group of funky TSI soap characters usually lived in: beautiful single people with well-pa…