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Pandora's Star

By: Peter F. Hamilton
Narrated by: John Lee
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Pandora's Star is the first part of Peter F. Hamilton's epic Commonwealth Saga duology – a fantastic galaxy-spanning novel from the master of space opera. For fans of Iain M. Banks and Alastair Reynolds.

At the edge of the galaxy something awakens – and it's coming for us . . .

Earth AD 2329: Humanity has colonized over four hundred planets, all interlinked by wormholes. For the first time in mankind's history there is peace. Then a star over a thousand light years away suddenly vanishes, imprisoned inside a force field of immense size. Yet who – or what – has that sort of technology? And what could this mean for us? Only a faster-than-light starship, captained by ex-NASA astronaut Wilson Kime, can reach that distance to investigate.

For Wilson, getting inside the force field could be easy. It may be harder to stop something else from getting out.

What if there was a very good reason to seal off an entire star system?

The Commonwealth Saga duology concludes with Judas Unchained.

'The best book Hamilton has written in years' - Guardian

'Anyone who begins this won’t be able to put it down' - Publishers Weekly

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Critic Reviews

The best book Hamilton has written in years (Guardian)
Anyone who begins this won’t be able to put it down (Publishers Weekly)
Compelling (SFX)
An immersive, grand-scale space opera (SFSignal)
SF's go-to guy for adventure on a truly interstellar scale . . . Hamilton's storytelling is both staggering and poetic (SFReviews)
All stars
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Iv got 104 Sci-Fi audiobooks and the Commonwealth books are still my favourites.
If you can handle some physics and highly detailed descriptions, these books suck you into another universe like no other book can.

The best Sci-Fi out there

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I’ll just say this. I’ve read a lot of sci-fi in my day and this is the only time I feel I truly know what it’s like to be inside an alien mind. Disturbingly beautiful. An Amazing story

MorningLightMountain. O M G !?!

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This is Peter Hamilton’s best novel. A story in the future where humans have colonised many planets and live in safety and security. That is until they unintentionally release an imprisoned alien species.

Great writing and an excellent performance.

For science fiction fans - this is one of the best

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Who else would tap our cultural history to build a future with "Elves", bringing in Larry Niven's Ringworld, fantastical aliens, and "Ghosts" and magic based on technological bio-inserts, and a world of Humanitarian Historically time-locked Gene altered people. The imagination, descriptions, the "YES!" moments, the "NO!" moments. And maybe a couple of tear jerking moments. Interesting, bazaar, flawed Humans, a friendly AI and a new enemy.

Storylines entwine across 700 lightyears

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It felt like excessive exposition but the last one quarter makes up for it. I enjoyed it the most with 13 of 37 hours remaining.

Very slow start but worth the wait

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