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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Don't ask - don't question why or how or what is happening - jump in & hang on! (  ) SandraW | Apr 3, 2009 |  1st off I gave this a try because a few people recommended it on the Amazon Kindle Discussion board. I generally love Sci-Fi and the price was right, $7.99 for all three books on my Kindle. What I didn't realize was that all three books have a total page count north of 3,600 pages! Yikes. So I plunged into this trilogy. It picks up right where book 1 leaves off! It suffered from none of the 1st books issue with setting up the story. Aside from being a very large investment in time, this book did not disappoint. The pace varied between good and frantic. Late in the book was a scene that had me breathless as it moved along. I could sit there an imagine just what it might look like on the big screen. It was that good. It also has left enough lose ends in place for book three. (  ) knipfty | Mar 27, 2009 | Massive space opera, and only part two of a trilogy. Ranges over star systems with dizzying speed, moves the story forward, and introduces new mysteries for the final installment. My only criticism is my own fault, I left it too long before starting it, and had forgotten a lot of "The Reality Dysfunction", so I was a bit confused at times. Hamilton does not spoon feed his readers, you have to struggle to keep up with the pace. I enjoyed this challenge enormously though. ( ) se71 | May 2, 2008 | Possession organisation spread. The numbers of those from beyond the grave continue to grow, and a famous gangster is among them, and he puts his 'organisational' talents to use, once he calms down a bit. They also find that they can possess the sentient ships, gaining useful weaponry in the process. Then there is the serious grudge-carryingescaped scientist and her superweapon. Space battles and zombies and zombie space battles, if you like, although there is no lack of intelligence after possession, just a lot of desperate conflict going on as people learn about this problem and set out to try and do something about it. http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2007/12... ( ) bluetyson | Dec 8, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0316021814, Paperback)The ancient menace has finally escaped from Lalonde, shattering the Confederation's peaceful existence. Those who succumbed to it have acquired godlike powers, but now follow a far from divine gospel as they advance inexorably from world to world. On planets and asteroids, individuals battle for survival against the strange and brutal forces unleashed upon the universe. Governments teeter on the brink of anarchy, the Confederation Navy is dangerously over-stretched, and a dark messiah prepares to invoke his own version of the final Night. In such desperate times the last thing the galaxy needs is a new and terrifyingly powerful weapon. Yet Dr. Alkad Mzu is determined to retrieve the Alchemist -- so she can complete her thirty-year-old vendetta to slay a star. Which means Joshua Calvert has to find Dr Mzu and bring her back before the Alchemist can be reactivated. But he's not alone in the chase, and there are people on both sides who have their own ideas about how to use the ultimate doomsday device. THE NEUTRONIUM ALCHEMIST is the second novel in the Night's Dawn Trilogy, an extraordinary feat of storytelling on a truly epic scale.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:18 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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