- Hardcover: 1184 pages
- Publisher: Tor; 2nd THUS edition (8 Oct 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0333687914
- ISBN-13: 978-0333687918
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 6.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (86 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 227,524 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy--The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist and now The Naked God--is ambitious in its galaxy-wide, multiple viewpoint plot, its political and metaphysical subject-matter, its sheer three-thousand page scope. The damned have broken out of the afterlife and possessed whole planets; a gallant and untrustworthy space captain is haring off after alien sorts; and for the resurrected Al Capone, the secret masters of Earth and the government of the human Confederacy, it is business as usual... Hamilton's super-charged villain, Dexter Quinn, arrives on the home planet of humanity with a mission--to convert enough people to his Satanist creed that Earth can be taken out of the universe altogether; "Quinn raised an arm, his sleeve falling to reveal an albino hand with grizzled claw fingers. Three thin streamers of white fire lashed out from the talons, searingly bright in the gloomy, smoke-heavy air." The many fans of Hamilton's high-octane gloomy space opera will find this finale a worthy successor, and thrill to its many surprises; Hamilton's evocation of the depths of space and the strangeness of alien races has rightly won him much praise. A certain moral ambiguity has also crept in to what was at first a black and white universe--some of the returned damned are heroic and compassionate, and many of the living are not as nice as all that. --Roz Kaveney
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This last volume in the "Night's Dawn" trilogy sees Quinn Dexter loose on Earth, pursued by Louise Kavanagh, with some strange and powerful allies whose goal doesn't match her own. Joshua Calvert and Syrinx are on a mission to find the Sleeping God who holds the key to overthrowing the enemy.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As a suggestion it's probably best to read the three novels in the series back to back, or at least with minimal intermissions. The vast numbers of underdeveloped cut-and-paste characters tended to blend together after a while, and I spent a good proportion of this final novel trying to remember events in the previous instalment (read about a year previously) and who these individuals who appear with no introduction actually were.
Even more than before, The Naked God reads like a collection of a dozen or so sensibly-sized novels thrown up in the air and the chapters shuffled into random order. On the down side, that did leave me wishing that the author wouldn't keep switching away from a plotline as I was just getting into it, but on the other hand it did create an sense of anticipation and a desire to keep reading to find out what was going to happen next.
Anyway, having enjoyed the first two books I knew what to expect, but I soon discovered that it was starting to turn into a soap opera with each return to a familiar scenario giving me my momentary fix before hauling me off somewhere else without very much having occured. I also found myself becoming increasingly alarmed as the number of pages remaining started to shrink with no sign of an impending conclusion, or indeed any indication that the plot had any intention of wrapping up. So the fact that the ending was rushed was not a surprise - the fact that it was so implausible and unsatisfying undoubtedly was. As others have suggested, the author seemed to have tied himself in knots with no way to untangle the various strands of plot without using a big pair of scissors.
Anyway, despite the lingering disappointment, and despite the impression I may have given up to now, I did enjoy the majority of this book and definitely the series as a whole - I just wish the author hadn't let it slip so far out of his control.
Even more than before, The Naked God reads like a collection of a dozen or so sensibly-sized novels thrown up in the air and the chapters shuffled into random order. On the down side, that did leave me wishing that the author wouldn't keep switching away from a plotline as I was just getting into it, but on the other hand it did create an sense of anticipation and a desire to keep reading to find out what was going to happen next.
Anyway, having enjoyed the first two books I knew what to expect, but I soon discovered that it was starting to turn into a soap opera with each return to a familiar scenario giving me my momentary fix before hauling me off somewhere else without very much having occured. I also found myself becoming increasingly alarmed as the number of pages remaining started to shrink with no sign of an impending conclusion, or indeed any indication that the plot had any intention of wrapping up. So the fact that the ending was rushed was not a surprise - the fact that it was so implausible and unsatisfying undoubtedly was. As others have suggested, the author seemed to have tied himself in knots with no way to untangle the various strands of plot without using a big pair of scissors.
Anyway, despite the lingering disappointment, and despite the impression I may have given up to now, I did enjoy the majority of this book and definitely the series as a whole - I just wish the author hadn't let it slip so far out of his control.
21 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
When I first saw the size of "The Reality Dysfunction" (part one of this trilogy (Night's Dawn)) I was a bit wary about buying such a large book by an author I didn't know. It turned out to be a great decision. I couldn't put the book down. Even with so many characters and different threads of stories, the book is easy to follow with a gripping stroyline. Enough of the minor stories came to an end to make it an excellent book but the cliff-hangers ensured I bought the next book, "The Neutronium Alchemist". Once again I was not let down. This too was a brilliant book. The plot thickened as it developed. The carefully thought out technologies of the future become intriguing parts of the book as opposed to just being extras. By the time I had finished I was desperate to read the final part of this 3600+ page trilogy. The Naked God excelled where the other books shone and it brought together all the plot elements that had been so carefully seeded during the first two books.
The science-fiction I typically read normally comes either under 'hard science-fiction' (such as Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, etc.) or very easy going such as the Aliens and Predator books. The Night's Dawn trilogy (and especially the Naked God) manages to settle very comfortably in the middle. There is enough action, romance and horror to keep the easy reader attached to the book whereas at the same time Peter F. Hamilton manages to make his invented technology sound so real and so natural to the people who use it (while at the same time not so alien that we can't understand it), the typically 'hard sci-fi' reader will find themselves submerged in a believable far future of mankind.
While in my own opinion, no one can come close to Isaac Asimov's ability to portray a 'History of the Future' in so many books, if anyone should try, Peter F. Hamilton should. He has the ending in this brilliant trilogy, he has some short stories in 'A Second Chance At Eden', now he needs to expand on the history of his universe which he has already outlined at the end of each book.
People have compared Peter F. Hamilton's work to that of Iain M. Banks. Banks' Culture novels are superb but have such amazing technologies in them that are thrown around and introduced only when needed, can confuse the book or offer quick ways out of difficult situations (just read about the bike in the non-culture novel 'Against a Dark Background' to see what I mean). Peter F. Hamilton introduces the technology in a similar way to how he introduces people. You get to know and understand the technology/person so when it does something, while unexpected, it is believable (in a sci-fi kind of way).
I have read the entire trilogy twice from beginning to end and still want to read it again. The only thing that is stopping me is I have to sleep sometime, don't I?
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The Night's Dawn Trilogy is a great read - the central premise is pretty unique amongst Sci-Fi novels, and the consequences are interesting, logically self-consistent and unusually thought provoking. The only disappointment is the ending, which rather ducks the grandiose scale of the issues raised and leaves the reader feeling a little short-changed, but does at least tie up all the ends neatly.
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phew
the last book in the nights dawn trilogy, the best si-fi i have read,could not put it down...and now to start it again...
Published 7 months ago by JB
Lame ending to a poor trilogy
I got into Hamilton in a slightly odd order - I first read Pandora's Star/Judas Unchained, and found them to be entertaining books. Read more
Published 10 months ago by NTRabbit
Very lame...
Three books for one of the lamest endings imaginable. The phrase 'deus ex machina' has been used, along with the phrase 'cop out'. This is absolutely spot-on. Read more
Published 10 months ago by E. Middleton
The Naked God (Night's Dawn Trilogy)
The final story in the trilogy. Again a well written and fast paced adventure story with the finale wrapping up the loose ends well if slightly contrived
Published 12 months ago by Discerning viewer
Simply stunning!
I read the reality dysfunction very slowly, only to pick it up from a month absence from it to wonder why I ever put it down. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Dannystaples
A disappointing end to a series that went on far too long
Having just finished this book, the third (and last) in the series, I am left primarily with a feeling of relief. Read more
Published 16 months ago by gcogger
Pretty good denouement to an oddly compelling series
I assume, given that you are reading a review of the third volume of a trilogy, that you have already read the first two volumes (and that you at least quite liked volume 1). Read more
Published 17 months ago by DB
Frustrating and annoying
It would be hard to overstate just how much this trilogy copped out. I find it hard to believe that the awful ending was part of the plan at the start. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Martin Turner
Too too much effort to read
I did enjoy the first 2 books but this one just went on and on. I never felt like the plot or story progressed and got fed up of going back and forth between characters where... Read more
Published 20 months ago by knighty
Dreadful
I'm going to have to keep this short and sweet - not because I have to, but because I've wasted enough time on this trilogy already... Read more
Published on 13 Jan 2010 by M. Hill
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