- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Tor; First Edition edition (28 Sep 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0333785886
- ISBN-13: 978-0333785881
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.8 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 533,829 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Remember those fact-filled appendices in Frank Herbert's Dune and JRR. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings? Here's the equivalent--though separately packaged--for Peter Hamilton's enormous and popular Night's Dawn SF trilogy, comprising The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist and The Naked God, plus related stories collected in A Second Chance at Eden.
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
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This handbook is an essential companion volume for all the countless readers past, present and future for whom the 'Night's Dawn' trilogy has evolved into a defining SF classic.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format: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
Format: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
Format: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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Very informative, excellent companion to the Trilogy
This little book is very informative, concise and an excellent companion to the Night's Dawn Trilogy. I would strongly recommend it to anyone who owns those books. Read more
Published 16 days ago by Ms. C. Raine
Very Informative.
I purchased this book along with the 'Nights Dawn Trilogy' and am very happy that I did. I am only 300 pages into 'The Reality Dysfunction' and have refered to it several times... Read more
Published on 3 Oct 2009 by Adrian S. Morris
Essential and Informative
A must have guide to the masterful epic that is Peter.F.Hamilton's 'Night's Dawn Trilogy'. 'The Confederation Handbook'details everything from corperations, to space flight,... Read more
Published on 12 Feb 2004 by "generalblob"
Why should we need this?
I only read the first volume of this trilogy and bought this handbook with it...and I still ask myself: why? It is pretty useless, because Mr. Read more
Published on 22 Oct 2003 by "moonlightguy"
Mostly good, but a little dry in places.+
Hamiltons consolidated his notes into the handbook with a degree of success - the information contained is to the point and explained a great many things that I was unclear of. Read more
Published on 8 April 2001 by "david@acquiesce11.freeserve.co.uk"
Read the Trilogy, wished I'd never bought the Handbook
Peter writes brilliant stories. This book is poor as it reads like the story with everything but the technical details taken out. Read more
Published on 7 Mar 2001
A useful and clear reference guide
Written in the style of a popular science book, The Confederation Handbook is a comprehensive resource for readers of the massive Night's Dawn trilogy and associated short stories. Read more
Published on 10 Dec 2000
This brings them all together.
Peter Hamilton was the first Sci-fi author that I tackled, I wasn't interested in the genre before, but his books are three of the most exciting reads that I have ever had. Read more
Published on 11 Oct 2000 by moorered@hotmail.com
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