***** The Void Returns
Seven
years after reading the Void Trilogy, I returned to the Commonwealth universe
created by Hamilton with this first book in the Chronicle of the Fallers
duology and met Nigel Sheldon in a new story set in the Void. Chronologically
the story outside this anomaly located in our galaxy overlaps in part with that
of the trilogy but has minimal contact with the latter. In the Void, however,
we know new characters in a new planet where a spaceship was conducted about
two hundred years before (but three thousand passed in it): Bienvenido. In
addition, we have a way of discovering something more about the purpose of the
existence of the Void.
The
novel, divided into several books, is long and complex, but all the threads are
quickly assembled accurately by the author and with great fun of the reader.
Along with the class struggles of a civilisation that for three thousand years
sees its evolution blocked by the aversion of the Void against the most
advanced technologies, there is the struggle against a new alien species that, using a
deception that certainly isn’t a novelty in science fiction (“Invasion of Body
Snatchers” immediately came to mind), is a subtle and constant threat to the
inhabitants of Bienvenido. At the same time, however, it will prove to be a
resource.
After
reading the novel - no doubt the most beautiful one I read by this author so
far - the desire to get the sequel immediately is very strong. And I guess, as
far as I am concerned, I’ll go along with it soon.
The Abyss Beyond Dreams on Amazon.
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