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As a "non-fiction" companion volume, The Confederation Handbook maps out this future galaxy's joyous complications. Technologies: the affinity gene allowing telepathic man/machine communication; neural-nanonics implants which link your brain to the net; intelligent voidhawk and blackhawk spacecraft; forbidden antimatter weapons; and space drives. People: human Adamists who reject the affinity gene; Edenists whose affinity links offer a "real" afterlife that replaces religion, struggling colonists everywhere; and three very different alien species--the Tyrathca, Kiint and Jiciro. Places: crowded old Earth with its O'Neill halo of orbital installations; communist Mars; utopian Edenist habitats mining helium-3 fusion fuel from gas-giant planets; quirkily various colony worlds; and the mysterious alien wreckage of the Ruin Ring.
The Handbook carefully, almost too carefully, avoids spoiler revelations about the apocalyptic action of Night's Dawn. As in those books, its Timeline stops before the main story begins, and--besides names of "Possessors" in a cast list slightly updated from The Naked God's--the superpowered returned dead who threaten the entire Federation aren't mentioned at all. Readers nervous of SF terminology may find this a useful guide to the trilogy's huge, exhilarating blend of roller-coaster action and ghost-train chills. --David Langford --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The Reality Dysfunction ... The Neutronium Alchemist ... The Naked God
Peter F.Hamilton's 'Night's Dawn Trilogy' has proved one of the best-selling Science-Fiction series of the last decade, and the most dramatically successful from a UK author.This handbook is an essential companion volume for all the countless readers past, present and future for whom this massive trilogy has evolved into a defining SF classic. It comprises general background information relating to all three volumes, with comprehensive notes and glossaries on the major characters, planets, space stations, political hierarchies, weaponry, spacecraft, invasions, and the many alien races with their diverse social economies, industries and technologies.
'From the outset, Hamilton won over the sci-fi aficionados with the coherence of his invented universe' The Times
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent overview of fantastically realised universe.,
By JonA (Birmingham, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Confederation Handbook (Hardcover)
Having just finished reading The Naked God (thus completeing the finest SF story ever written), I feel that this handbook is essential for clarifying a few of the finer points contained within the Nights Dawn Trilogy. It is wonderfully concise and as far as I can see there are no discrepencies between it and the novels. A number of my friends have expressed an interest in reading the Trilogy and my only recommendation to them was to borrow or buy a copy of this handbook with it. It really is that usefull for understanding some of the finer details of the society which Mr Hamilton has created. The only reason I have not given it 5 stars is because certain sections are a little dry and occasionaly repeated readings of these and other sections is essential to fully grasp the idea and concept it is referring to. But don't let this put you off this book in any way. On the whole, a worthy bookend to not just an excellent piece of science fiction but an outstanding masterpiece of modern fiction.
17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A must for Nights Dawn Trilogy fans,
By timbinns@supanet.com (Erith, Kent, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Confederation Handbook (Paperback)
An essential guide for readers who either have read or are about to read the Night's Dawn Trilogy giving literal representations of the future worlds and cultures of Peter F Hamilton's imagination. This handbook to the future leading up to the year 2610 and beyond is as good as the Trilogy itself and is a must for all SF fans.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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well worth a read,
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This review is from: The Confederation Handbook (Paperback)
Although a lot of the content is already covered in the book, it goes into further details about the universe and helps you create a better image of the universe that the book is set. Probably best to buy it before finishing the trilogy as it will let you understand it a lot better.
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