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Critics have compared the engrossing space operas of Peter F. Hamilton to the common sagas of such SF giants as Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert. But Hamilton's bestselling fiction—run with a fearless creativity and world-class storytelling skills—in addition has earned him assessment to Tolstoy and Dickens. Hugely ambitious, wildly amusing, philosophically rousing: the books of Peter F. Hamilton will change how you think about research fiction. Now, with Pandora's Star, he begins a fresh multivolume adventure, one which assures to be his most mind-blowing yet. The year is 2380. The Intersolar Commonwealth, a sphere of celebrities some 400 light-years in diameter, consists of more than 600 worlds, interconnected with a web of transport "tunnels" known as wormholes. In the farthest border of the Commonwealth, astronomer Dudley Bose observes the impossible: Over 1,000 light-years away, a star…vanishes. It does not go supernova. It does not collapse into a dark-colored gap. It simply disappears. Because the location is too faraway to attain by wormhole, a faster-than-light starship, the next Chance, is dispatched to learn what has took place and whether it signifies a menace. In command line is Wilson Kime, a five-time rejuvenated ex-NASA pilot whose glory times are generations behind him. Against the mission are the Guardians of Selfhood, a cult that feels the people is being manipulated by an alien entity they call the Starflyer. Bradley Johansson, head of the Guardians, warns of sabotage, fearing the Starflyer means to use the starship's objective because of its own ends. Pursued by a Commonwealth special agent convinced the Guardians are crazy but dangerous, Johansson flees. But the threat is not averted. Aboard the next Chance, Kime magic if his crew has been infiltrated. Quickly enough, he'll have other concerns. A thousand light-years away, something truly extraordinary is waiting around: a dangerous breakthrough, the unleashing of which will threaten to ruin the Commonwealth…and mankind itself. Can it be that Johansson was right?
