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    The Neutronium Alchemist
    The Neutronium Alchemist
    The Neutronium Alchemist
    Audiobook40 hours

    The Neutronium Alchemist

    Written by Peter F. Hamilton

    Narrated by John Lee

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    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 that she can complete her thirty-year-old vendetta to slay a star. This means that 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMay 24, 2016
    ISBN9781515970729
    The Neutronium Alchemist
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    Peter F. Hamilton

    Peter F. Hamilton was born in Rutland in 1960 and still lives nearby. He began writing in 1987, and sold his first short story to Fear magazine in 1988. He has written many bestselling novels, including the Greg Mandel series, the Night's Dawn trilogy, the Commonwealth Saga, the Void trilogy, short-story collections and several standalone novels including Fallen Dragon and Great North Road.

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    • 4/5
      I think I'm going to have to do a more thorough review later. At this point, I'm just going to focus on mechanics.

      I like this book. And this series. Honestly, I do. However, I'm at the point where I really think that the whole Night's Dawn series was actually written as one big tome of an epic, and the publishers decided to break it into three (or six, as you decided to buy them) novels just for the sake of the spine. And geez, what a doorstopper a 3500 page book would be anyway. There are just limits.

      But, when we hit the last chapter of The Neutronium Alchemist, I really didn't feel like we were building toward a climax. Nothing heart-wrenching, no amazing clincher that wraps the book up, not even a real cliffhanger to make people want to read the next one. There were a couple of mysteries, but not really a "OH HOLY CRAP WHAT THE HECK'S HAPPENING" sort of thing. And starting the next book, the first chapter felt like it was just the next chapter of the previous book.

      I think that's the thing that's getting me the most, besides the outrageous number of POVs and locations. It's really taking a wiki for me to get through this without losing track of who's where and doing what. And the plot feels like it's ramping up at a steady pace, and in such a way that it feels more real to me than a typical epic. I feel like I could be reading a tome about WWII at this point, although I think an author would have selected fewer POVs for an actual history book to avoid confusing his reader.

      I'm finding the meat of the series interesting in and of themselves; we don't often deal with religions in science fiction that are not utterly imaginary, unless it's a Christian Sci-Fi novel, which I steer clear of. Hamilton definitely handles it with the care of a historian -- no proselytizing, just reflecting the different beliefs of the systems and cultures he's working with. It's interesting, and something I'd like to write a review or an essay specifically addressing, but one that will take some significant research and thought on its own. I'm still curious about the implications of Father Horst's abilities, but it was mentioned in the first book and then never again.

      As it stands, I'm continuing on in the slog. Not because it's particularly sloggy, as it t'were, but because the world building really is intricate and extensive. Not an easy series to read by any means, but if you're really looking for something TRULY EPIC in its story, this is definitely what to go for.
    • 5/5
      Great. One of my favorite Peter Hamilton books so far.
    • 3/5
      At this point, the novelty has warn off and I just want to finish. I love the universe but I think I'll take a break to read some other more diverse authors. I do plan to come back to see how it all ends, though (hopefully something big and interesting). Unfortunately, the plot structure is surprisingly similar to the previous book and the title is a bit of a give away. I am, however, interested to see how all the forces interact in the next and final book.
    • 4/5
      Excellent follow-on, not a weak middle at all.
    • 5/5
      This book made me keep saying 'Noooooo, you can't do that!' because of the different times in the book where either evil triumphs over good or it appears that evil has triumped over good. It was a riveting read and introduced some new characters and complexities, as well as having more adventures with the characters we know and love.
    • 4/5
      My copy was annoyingly misprinted. Everything's fine until page 794 when it jumps to page 843. You're missing the end of the episode about Joshua (no important plot points), whatever takes Oenone away from the Kiint homeworld, and whatever happens on the Villeneuve's Revenge to get Erick into that state. Considering the size of the novel and Hamilton's verbosity, you are probably missing the equivalent of about 5 pages. Anyway, everything is then fine until page 1034 when pages 987 to 1034 are repeated. Things are then fine until the end. My copy was an early printing. I'm not sure if it was a problem unique to my copy or a flaw in the print run.Great novel though!
    • 4/5
      The second novel of the Night’s Dawn Trilogy takes place on an even grander galactic stage. With the possessed spreading throughout the galaxy, Capone’s organization growing in size and power, Rubra working to save the remain population of Valisk, and Ione Saldana’s team discovering more about a lost civilization which suffered its own reality dysfunction, time is running short for the Confederation and for humanity as a whole. Tranquility, the Lady Macbeth, Oenone, Jupiter, Trafalgar, and Kulu each face their own challenges as they work with, around, and against one another, hoping to find a solution to the reality dysfunction and humanity’s encounter with the Beyond. Relying on Laton’s words and the pieces of information humanity has gained at a painfully high cost, the nature of the problem and the solution remain elusive. Meanwhile Alkad Mzu escapes from Tranquilty seeking to use the greatest weapon ever conceived, The Alchemist, to get revenge upon the society that destroyed her planet decades earlier. With Joshua ‘Lagrange’ Calvert sent after her by Ione, the various agencies desperate to catch her, and the possessed determined to use her technology for their own advantage, her escape has become a long chase, the end of which may well determine the future of the human race.
    • 3/5
      The panoramic vistas of Peter Hamilton's huge universe are interesting and entertaining, but I have a hard time getting past the premise of the dead returning to life in a space opera. And I could have done with less of the brutal assaults and torture.
    • 4/5
      Focussed more on plot development than world-building, not quite as fun as the first part, but still entertaining. You need a scorecard to track all the characters, though, especially when they start coming back from the dead.
    • 4/5
      If you’re reading this review, then you’ve probably read The Reality Dysfunction. If not, you need to do so. This is book two of a three book series and cannot be read as a stand alone novel. The three books are really three volumes of the same story (Night’s Dawn), a 3,500 page behemoth to be sure.I found The Reality Dysfunction to be an outstanding work of science fiction, striking a perfect balance between complicated “hard” science fiction concepts and captivating story lines. The numerous threads made it something of a challenge to keep abreast of the action, but I was able to do so by reading it through without pause (over the course of 2-3 weeks).I rated this volume slightly below the original for the simple fact that my least favorite story thread (the Norfolk heiresses) plays a significantly more prominent role in this book. As with most “book twos” of multi-volume works, this tome advances the story line of the original book without achieving much resolution, but it certainly does so in an entertaining and captivating manner.Certainly, any story in which “the dead” return would be missing a potentially captivating angle if certain famous historical personages were not represented. In an angle reminiscent of Philip Jose Farmer’s classic Riverworld series, such is the case here, though on a very limited, though nonetheless effective basis.I must confess that near the end of this second volume, I found it more difficult to keep track of the numerous threads and peripheral characters within each thread. Again, you cannot hope to stay on top of this story unless you dedicate time to it on a daily basis. I’m certainly hoping that the final volume begins to merge some of the threads as the overall story comes to its final conclusion.
    • 5/5
      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.