| The Dreaming Void (The Void Trilogy) | 
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Sales Rank: 1633451
Category: Book
Author: Peter F Hamilton
Publisher: Tantor Media
Studio: Tantor Media
Manufacturer: Tantor Media
Label: Tantor Media
Format: Audiobook, Cd
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 18
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 5.5 x 1.7
ISBN: 140010727X
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9781400107278
ASIN: 140010727X
Publication Date: June 1, 2008
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Product Description
Featuring characters from Peter F. Hamilton's bestselling Judas Unchained, this novel begins a stunning new trilogy set in a far future where one great mystery remains: the nature of what is hiding within the Void, an area of space from which amazing dreams are being projected, allowing people everywhere to experience a reality never before imagined.
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 An epic saga of galactic proportions October 10, 2008
The Dreaming Void is the unabridged audiobook rendition of the first volume in a new science fiction trilogy set in the same universe as the widely appreciated Commonwealth saga. Within the core of the galaxy is the Void, a self-contained microuniverse that is steadily expanding and absorbing all in its path, including planets, stars, and civilizations. One astrophysicist studying the Void starts to dream of humans living within it, and through the neural network that keeps humans connected, his dreams spread into the foundation of a new religion. When the prophet that sparked the religion vanishes mysteriously, an unknown Second Dreamer steps up to take his place. Followers embark on a great pilgrimage into the Void, but there is a terrible risk that by attempting to enter they could trigger the catastrophic destruction of thousands of worlds! Meanwhile, within the Void, a cosmic entity has shifted its attention outward. It's a race against time to find Inigo and the Second Dreamer, in this epic saga of galactic proportions. 18 CDs, 22.5 hours.
 Not Free SF Reader October 6, 2008
The trend from the first Commonwealth duology continues, here, in this trilogy. The opening is ponderous and slow, and doesn't really get going much until later in the book. Not coincidentally, when Paula Myo makes an appearance. The first 100 pages or so seems a bit sloppily written, too.
The other problem is that the Second Dreamer thing, and the 'religious nuts might destroy the galaxy' has none of the urgency of the paranoid conspiracy story that built in Pandora's Star, or any of the gripping horror of the Night's Dawn Trilogy. Thefore you are left with a book that is rather bland, and bland is not really a good thing for space opera to be.
Jumping a thousand years or so in the future, there are faster ships, better communications technology, bunches more aliens in the background, and a lot of people live as uploaded personalities. Ozzie and Nigel have also racked off for parts elsewhere.
Multiple character threads again, amnesiac mystery agent Aaron, Justine, Paula along with a teenaged divorcee named Araminta.
I did enjoy the latter part of the book, even despite the local village boy becomes chosen one garden variety fantasy trilogy subplot in the story of Edeard.
Balancing out some of the callow youth is the introduction of a character from the earlier duology, when Myo decides she needs a hand.
There's a brief timeline of the intervening missing period of this future history at the end of the book, detailing major developments.
I'll call this almost a 3.25, but not quite.
Read the Dreams First September 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Dreaming Void is actually 3 books under 1 cover.
Book ONE continues with characters from the previous Pandora's Star/Judas Unchained series which takes place in our future -- which is about 1,000 years in their past.
Book TWO is about the second dreamer who is unnamed but self-evident as a character.
Book THREE is the set of Inigo's dreams.
Read the prequels (Pandora's Star/Judas Unchained) first.
Then read the set of dream sequences as a stand alone. These sequences have a different typeface.
THEN go back and read the rest of the book.
Otherwise, you will be lost temporally, geographically, and character-wise.
Typical Hamilton September 7, 2008
Just about like every other P. Hamilton book I've read. Start out wondering why did I buy this, but keep picking it up until it's finished. Now I can't wait on volume 2. Go figure!
 an indigestible sci-fi burger August 20, 2008
Ok, there's this guy who dreams a zany fantasy sequence, and convinces a lot of people to throw themselves in the central black hole of the galaxy where lies the world of the dreams ( that doesn't seem so appealing, after all). How ludicrous is this for a premise? Plus characters absolutely devoid of any appeal, a flat storytelling accumulating disparate threads and the usual display of terms like "biononics". The Night Dawn Trilogy was great, this is pure sci-fi burger. Throw it in a black hole with all the void dreamers. Finally, how in the Multverse can a guy finding himself with total amnesia about who he is and what he is to do, finds himself perfectly at ease with the situation?
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