Reading List: Pandora's Star

by Peter Hamilton, 2004.

A fun read. The juxtaposition of sci-fi technology with current or obsolete tech is interesting. (E.g. humanity has wormhole gateways linking planet to planet, through which runs a rail network.) There are lots of other sci-fi themes present, including aliens, sufficiently advanced technology, and the side-effects of immortality.

But that bastard Hamilton ended the book on a cliffhanger! One of the main characters was literally going over a cliff (waterfall off the edge of a worldlet, actually), plus there's an imminent alien invasion. All this after nearly 800 pages, which should have sufficed to wrap up the story. Now I'm going to have to read the sequel. :-)