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Reviewers exhaust superlatives when it comes to the technology fiction of Peter F. Hamilton. His complex and engaging novels, which span thousands of years–and light-years–are as intellectually stimulating because they are emotionally gratifying. Now, with The Thinking Void, the first volume in a trilogy occur the same far-future as his acclaimed Commonwealth saga, Hamilton has created another ambitious and gripping space epic.
The entire year is 3589, fifteen century after Commonwealth causes barely staved off human being extinction in a conflict resistant to the alien Prime. Now an even greater risk has surfaced: a risk to the existence of the universe itself.
At the center of the galaxy is the Void, a self-contained microuniverse that can't be breached, can't be destroyed, and can't be halted as it continuously expands everywhere, consuming everything in its course: planets, superstars, civilizations. The Void has existed for untold an incredible number of years. Even the oldest and most technologically advanced of the galaxy’s sentient races, the Raiel, have no idea its source, its designers, or its purpose.
But then Inigo, an astrophysicist studying the Void, starts dreaming of human beings who live within it. Inigo’s dreams reveal a global where thoughts become activities and dreams become certainty. In the Void, Inigo sees paradise. Thanks to the gaiafield, a neural entanglement wired into most humans, Inigo’s dreams are shared by a huge selection of thousands and thousands–and a religion, the Living Aspiration, is born, with Inigo as its prophet. But then he vanishes.
Abruptly there is a new influx of dreams. Dreams broadcast by an unfamiliar Second Dreamer serve as the ideas for a massive Pilgrimage in to the Void. But there is a chance that by attempting to type in the Void, the pilgrims will induce a catastrophic extension, an accelerated devourment stage that will swallow up thousands of worlds.
And therefore begins a desperate race to find Inigo and the mystical Second Dreamer. Some seek to avoid the Pilgrimage; others to rate its progress–while within the Void, a supreme entity has changed its gaze, for the very first time, outward. . . .
From the Hardcover edition.
