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  "description": "I'd say Peter F. Hamilton has done it again given how much I liked Exodus but that doesn't make sense inasmuch this preceded said book. So I suppose he did do it again with Exodus but I started at the wrong point in his writing. Anyways . Hamilton is verbose. But his stories are served by his verbosity. Pandora's Star is riddled throughout with well-rounded, developed, fully realized characters. I'm adjusting to his up front description of characters and the utility of providing a name and a brief description. It grounds the reader and sets up what's sure to be a lengthy tale. It's the year 2380 and humanity has done an end-run around starflight by developing wormholes. Right as captain Kime makes it to Mars the hard way, he's greeted by the founders of CST that did it the smart way. Many of the planets that comprise the commonwealth are now occupied by variants of human society with the room to grow into their own — whether that's based on lifestyle, ethnicity, cultural experiments and all is well. Mortality's been solved — there's rejuvenation and relife. The trauma of a temporary death and the new dynamics that come with living in perpetuity. Hamilton not only has a talent for creating worlds, he has one for enriching endless characters, giving them their own storyline and — improbably — weaving it altogether. Folks you never thought would meet, do and that interaction proves to be pivotal. Is the Starflyer real? Are the guardians right? Who's an agent of the Starflyer? How do the Silfen play into it? Where the hell are Ozzie and Orion? Does society become ever more militarized to try and counter the threat of the Prime(s)? Hamilton offers some answers and leaves more for the next.",
  "path": "/reading/books/9780330493314/pandoras-star",
  "publishedAt": "2025-08-23T00:00:00Z",
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  "tags": [
    "scifi",
    "fantasy",
    "fiction"
  ],
  "title": "Pandora's Star"
}