If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.Over-the-Top SF: "The Naked God" by Peter F. Hamilton“I’m an appropriate companion personality for a girl your age, young missy. We spent all night ransacking that library to see what I should be like. You got any idea what it’s like watching eight million hours of Disney AVs?” In "The Naked God" by Peter F. HamiltonHamilton is giving Doc Smith a reboot. That’s what I thought of when I tried to read some of Hamilton back in the day and...

I...I can't even. These books have been an integral part of my life.For the last year and a half, I have been slowly burning my way through.Other books came and went, but at the end of the day, The Reality Dysfunction and associated novels were waiting by my bedside, ready to guide me into the night with tales of horror, space, love, and humanity. And now it is finished.And I really do not know where to go next. Sure, there will be other books down the line.But something so constant? Who knows.A...

Okay, so now I’m a little annoyed. To have invested so much time in a series, only to have it end with the author kind of throwing up his hands and saying “well, it has to end sooner or later” is quite frustrating. I mean it, the books ridiculously rapid ending involves a quite literal deus ex machina. Poof! — the entire conflict of the book wrapped up without any real resolution whatsoever. It also didn’t help that the big reveal at the end about the Beyond was exactly what I thought it was goi...

Retrospectivality! What were the coolest elements of this amazing series Hamilton was able to reproduce, expand, prequel, sequel, write handbooks about,… that created the legend of the man space opera is irreversibly merged with forever. Peter, you are my hero!Immortality, other universes and dimensions, life extension, and the afterlife: Gaia, the tech, ships, medicine, fractions, everything in this universe has some elements of the most fundamental and elemental manifestation of life: avoiding...

Well I finished all 3 (Zombies in Space). I was waiting for him to finally say "Wait" this premise is ridiculous and veer away in another direction but nope. He does keep pulling new players out of the void (joke) when a deus ex machina is needed and the over-writing is still thereBut I read all of them so that says something.And this volume was not copy edited. The spelling errors kept pulling me out of the story.I will continue to read his new stuff.

Unfortunately The Night's Dawn trilogy is a huge, festering shamble where a few nuggets of interesting story is drowned in a horribly over-long stream of irrelevant and meandering side- and subplots. It starts off ok, focusing on just one plotline, which leads up to a rather nice "?" moment, but then it seems like Hamilton lost all his marbles because the story loses all focus and coherence, and the only thing that kept me painfully reading the last 4000 pages was to find out how in the world he...

Without a doubt, one of the most entertaining,expansive, and satisfying trilogies I have ever had the pleasure of reading. Fun, smart, and fully realized, I can't remember the last time I had so much fun reading!

I want to start my review by saying I am a little upset about this book at the moment:HULK SMASH!!! Sorry I got carried away. Anyhow all the signs were there; it is my fault I failed to recognize them. The end of otherwise excellent second book failed to make me as excited as what was going on before despite the cliffhanger. This was the sign of things to come - and boy did they came! I mentioned that the previous installment managed to avoid dreadful Second Book of a Trilogy syndrome. Here it i...

The sight which greeted her was so incredible that the breath stalled in her throat.The Brobdingnagian conclusion to a Brobdingnagian trilogy. Just finishing this is an accomplishment (tap on shoulder). If you manage to make it through the trilogy you will have read more than 1.1 million words (this instalment alone contains more than 400,000 words and weighs in at almost 1,300 pages). Relevance? Well, if you are going to be spending so bloody long reading a SF trilogy it had better be damn good...

Well that took just over three weeks to read. There is more of a sense of accomplishment from reading this last volume of the Night’s Dawn Trilogy than with the others. Due to each volume being a continuation of the previous ones finishing the last volume feels like having just read a 3000 pages book, rather than just a measly 1000 or so pages.I have been a little too lenient with my rating of the books in this series I think. At more than 1000 pages per volume I clearly have to like the books q...

This book single handedly made me stop reading sci-fi/fantasy for several years, which I guess I should be thankful for. The ending to this book and series is honestly one of the most incomprehensibly badly written endings to any book I've ever seen, and it was especially stunning given how highly regarded this series seems to be. The series itself is full of misogyny, has a blatant self insert as a main character who every woman finds super sexy and who solves everything amazingly perfectly but...

I read this sometime in the early to mid '00s.Like every Peter Hamilton trilogy I have read, this one was really good - until the last third of the final book, at which point it always feels like Hamilton says to himself, "Oh, shit, now I've gone and put myself into a corner? What do I do? What do I do? Oh, I know! Eureka! Deus ex machina!!" and pfffft. Out fizzles the story. It's so sad, because I know if he put a little effort into it, he could write a wonderful and imaginative ending - but as...

The Night's Dawn Trilogy is my second experience with Hamilton's writing. A couple of years ago, I read Pandora's Star, and immediately decided to own that book. Now, understand that as an employee of a public library, book purchases don't happen frequently, so. . . but I digress.The Reality Dysfunction was my least favorite of the three. It takes a while to get into the actual meat of the story, and a lot of it is honestly kind of smutty. By the end of the book though, I was completely hooked.

Some superb parts, especially when the action is in space. The ground battles and activities tend to be mired in treacle/mud. Some conversations go on and on and onand on and on... Kill me now. The ending was hurried and loose ends wrapped up in a nice big bow very fast.This trilogy is my least favourite of all Hamilton has written. All of his other work is 4-10x better.WARNING: the first book in this series includes very graphically described torture and rape and mutilation (sometimes of teens

Ultimately I only finished this series because I have a hard time not finishing a series I've started unless it is really bad. The Night's Dawn trilogy never quite strayed into "really bad" territory. There were a handful of compelling characters. The writing style is adequate and many of the scenes well written. My main problems with this trilogy were that it was too long, it followed too many protagonists, the main conflict was entirely unsatisfying and it ended poorly.Each of the three books

Wow. What a shitty, shitty, shitty ending. I read over 3500 pages of fun for THAT?*****MASSIVE SPOILERS DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT FINISHED THE BOOK****...Oh, yay, a magical wormhole transport cleared the universe of possessed people! And Quinn took all the bad possessed into Hell, which is where they wanted to be! Yay, happy feeling, everyone lives happily ever after. All the formerly possessed have cancer? No worries, the Klint will give us magical machines to cure it! No one has to messily d...

Deus ex machina.What should an author do when his story has run amok, subdividing into dozens of storylines of dimishing value to the overall plot that would require another 3500 pages to resolve individually? Yeah, but at least it is over. I am grateful I did not tackle this before enjoying Hamilton's good works; after eating this rotten elephant, I would not have been able to bring myself to risk another.I did enjoy myself from time to time, so maybe it is just me. But don't say I didn't warn

This particular novel was almost 1,200 pages and between it and the other two in the ongoing single story that takes up this trilogy, it's almost 3000 pages. Let me stress this: It's a single story. This isn't a huge ongoing big-book deal like the one Robert Jordan made... but it's close. And it's epic Space-Opera with anti-mater explosions, the dead coming back to take over the living, vast interstellar exploration, hunting for a god, and lots and lots of regular people just happening to make u...

Originally published on my blog here in March 2007.Night's Dawn may well be the longest work ever published as a trilogy. Each volume is as long, if not longer, than many trios of science fiction novels - the classic Foundation Trilogy is less than half the length of The Naked God. With that length (which is the most obvious distinguishing feature of the series), there is a concomitant vastness of scale: hundreds of characters, spanning several universes and thousands of light years. The subject...

The third volume of the Night's Dawn trilogy suffers the same flaws as the previous two; it is over-long and has too many characters leading to over a dozen endings (maybe - I didn't actually count) rather than a neat conclusion. Much of the time instead of enjoying the current scene I was wondering what was going on elsewhere with other characters, only to get back there and find myself wondering what was going on elsewhere with even more other characters. The ending is obvious to readers of th...