The new, non-Malazan, sf book by Steven Erikson has publishing date. The Willful Child is coming out on 25th of September in UK and about two weeks later in US and it tells the whole truth about

These are the voyages of the starship, A.S.F. Willful Child. Its ongoing mission: to seek out strange new worlds on which to plant the Terran flag, to ( Read more... )

Peter F. Hamilton is writing another novel set in the Commonwealth universe and this one is set inside the Void. This is most popular and my favourite of his universes - when anyone asks in what fictional universe I would like to live Commonwealth is on top of my list. His fan site the unisphere (Commonwealth term) has a first excerpt from the ( Read more... )

I finished (well sort of, but more about that later) Peter F. Hamilton’s The Temporal Void. I like his writing, especially the books taking place in Commonwealth universe. I was happy to get my hand on this book. Unfortunately it has very little Commonwealth in it. And way too much pseudo-fantasy in shape of Edeard life story. This is the same ( Read more... )

I started to go through the books I got.

The Temporal Void.
I loved the Commonwealth universe from the beginning and I really liked The Dreaming Void so I really wanted to read this one. I just skipped through the book, after all who cares for spoilers.
( Minor spoilers )

I MADE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!and the number of  exclamations does reflect my mental state.

You can now call me doctor :P

It's such a relief after all those months (and years).
I was so nervous but my friends say that it only showed at the beginning. They say I seemed very ( Read more... )

It's a pretty faithful adaptation of Peter F. Hamilton's Pandora's Star prologue.

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The American accents so bad even I can hear it.
Effects are  pretty good for amateurs - except the switches look ancient - like something from Moon missions.
I love the comments by the people in it - Wales as Mars. So it seems there's really something extraterrestial ( Read more... )

I’m almost done with The Dreaming Void the new Peter F. Hamilton’s book set in the Commonwealth Universe 1500 years after the events of the Commonwealth Saga .

Old friends:

My favourite characters of Pandora’s Star/Judas Unchained were Paula Myo, Oscar Monroe and Ozzie Isaacs. So you can imagine I was overjoyed Paula was back and as badass as ever ( ( Read more... )