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by Peter F Hamilton (Author) "Adamists define themselves as normal humans, a classification governed by their lack of an affinity gene ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 1 pages
  • Publisher: Tor; New edition edition (12 Oct 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330396145
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330396141
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 0.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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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 --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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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A must for Nights Dawn Trilogy fans, 13 Nov 2001
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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.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Essential and Informative, 12 Feb 2004
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, weapons, planets, alien species, and a guide to the characters and habitats, together with the various religions such as the Adamists and Edenists. 'The Confederation Handbook' is not only informative, but also a good read on Hamilton's magnificant universe. If you have the 'Night's Dawn Trilogy' and
'A Second Chance At Eden', you must buy this. I was lucky enough to get a signed copy of this from 'Forbidden Planet' in London.
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5.0 out of 5 stars well worth a read, 2 Aug 2005
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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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4.0 out of 5 stars 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 1 month ago by Adrian S. Morris

1.0 out of 5 stars 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

4.0 out of 5 stars 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

2.0 out of 5 stars 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

4.0 out of 5 stars 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... Read more
Published on 10 Dec 2000

4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent overview of fantastically realised universe.
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... Read more
Published on 25 Oct 2000 by JonA

4.0 out of 5 stars 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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