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Adams, Douglas (S)
Asher, Neal (S)
Aylett, Steve (S)
Banks, Iain M (S)
Barclay, James (F)
Barker, Clive (H)
Baxter, Stephen (S)
Brin, David (S)
Bury, Stephen (S)
Card, Orson Scott (S)
Cherryh, CJ (S/F)
Clute, John (S)
Cockayne, Steve (F)
Cook, Glen (F)
Danielewski, Mark (H)
Dick, Philip K (S)
Egan, Greg (S)
Feist, Raymond (F)
Gaiman, Neil (F)
Gibson, William (S)
Goodkind, Terry (F)
Grimwood, Jon C (S)
Hamilton, Peter (S)
Jeter, K.W. (S)
Jordan, Robert (F)
Lethem, Jonathan (S)
McAuley, Paul (S)
MacLeod, Ken (S)
Martin, George RR (F)
McMullen, Sean (S)
Miéville, China (S)
Moran, Daniel K (S)
Morgan, Richard K (S)
Nagata, Linda (S)
Niven, Larry (S)
Noon, Jeff (S)
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Rucker, Rudy (S)
Simmons, Dan (S)
Smith, Michael Marshall (S)
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Sterling, Bruce (S)
Vinge, Vernor (S)
Westerfeld, Scott (S)
Williams, Sean (S)
Williams, Tad (S/F)
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Bradbury, Ray (S/H)
Burgess, Anthony (S)
Tolkien, JRR (F) |
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| Peter Hamilton |
| Author Information |
Reviewed Books |
Other Books |
| Notes: (N) - Night's Dawn Trilogy |
Reality
Dysfunction (N) |
The Neutronium Alchemist (N)
The Naked God(N)
Mindstar Rising
A Quantum Murder
The Nano Flower
Fallen Dragon
Lightstorm |
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Ranking Reality Dysfunction is the first of
a three part series by Hamilton. Hamilton made no qualms in making this into a
series. Most authors who do a series feel as if they have to have a story within
the main plot that wraps up to some cliff hanging conclusion at the end of each
book. Hamilton did no such thing. For the first 150 pages or so not a single character
is repeated. The story is told from several different perspectives and Hamilton
takes his time starting each one off. I was seriously beginning to wonder if the
characters ever would repeat. Well luckily they did. Hamilton displays
a great sense of imagination throughout the book, creating sub cultures and worlds
that come to life quite nicely by his descriptions. Some of his ideas are a bit
tough to follow though. He describes some very high tech scenes and it can get
confusing. Unfortunately one of the key scenes to the book is one of these and
after rereading it 3 or 4 times I'm still not 100% sure what happened. Part of
me wonders if this was deliberate to keep the origin a mystery for a bit. Either
way it was a bit annoying. The plot itself, even though starting slow was quite
interesting and enough to probably get me to read the second book. The characters
on the other hand were a bit rough. Most of the characters were very typical science
fiction molds. The captain was young and good looking. The women all slept around
and were incredibly attractive in a wide array of ways. The villains were very
obvious villains. The interaction between them is not much better but nothing
is worse then Hamilton's ideas of how women react to a good looking ship captain.
The characters aside, the book is full of enough original ideas and an interesting
enough plot that I will give the second book a shot. However, the plot truly needs
to pick up for me to move on to the third if the characters do not improve. |
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