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The Reality Dysfunction Part 2: Expansion (Night's Dawn #1, Part 2 of 2)

Peter F. Hamilton

Paperback | Pages: 572 pages

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Title	:	The Reality Dysfunction Part 2: Expansion (Night's Dawn #1, Part 2 of 2)
Author	:	Peter F. Hamilton
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 572 pages
Published	:	August 1st 1997 by Aspect (first published 1996)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Space. Space Opera. Science Fiction Fantasy. Fantasy. Hard Science Fiction

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This review is for The Reality Dysfunction part 1 and 2 (The American edition I read divides this monster of a book into two books, which equal book 1 of The Night's Dawn trilogy)


So after reading the two books that comprise the Commonwealth Sagan and the Void trilogy, I can safetly say that The Reality Dysfunction (book 1) is my favorite Peter F Hamilton book to date. Now I've always had a problem with the way this guy writes, with his landscape porn, gratuitious sex, long descriptions of everything, and his strange ability to make what should be exciting action sequences overly long and somewhat boring. So here I decide to go back to some of his earlier works where his craft should logically be much less refined and developed, and his faults magnified by virtue of being a younger, less experienced writer. For sure I had a date with dissappointment... or so I thought.

What I got instead was a compelling introduction into a good ole sprawling space opera. How I have missed ye. Hamlton's familiar style of bouncing around the narrative through the eyes of an enormous amount of characters are here, but this time around, I didn't have a problem keeping track of who is who and doing what.. or doing who. Man this guy loves his sex scenes. It was a bit of a distraction I have to admit, and not really necessary to the story. In his defense, you could say that well, the way sex is becoming less and less tabboo and in a couple hundred years, it probabably will be the modern equivalent of asking a coworker out for coffee. That's good and all, but sex isn't really an important theme in this book, so why the hell is so much of it in here? And not just sex, mind you, but rape.

Which brings me to an important point. This book is not for everyone. There is some seriously disturbing, twisted, graphic shit in this book. There is a mixture of horror and sci fi similar to what Dan Simmons did with Hyperion, with a comperable and palpable texture of dread that just drips off the pages and into your mouth. Hamilton takes his time to create a meticulously detailed galaxy containing hundreds of inhabited planets and living habitats (yes I mean they are actually alive), only to watch him destroy it. It's the destruction porn of creating a giant lego city only to turn around and level it with golfballs, but on a galactic scale... and it's only just starting. I am reminded of that awesome chapter title in Stephen King's Under the Dome called: "This is NOT as Bad as it Gets".

There are also some supernatural elements found here which might be a turnoff to some that are looking for hard science, but there is an explanation for it that I hope will be elaborated on in the sequels. Overall, I was very pleasantly surprised with the first entry of The Night's Dawn trilogy.

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Original Title:	The Reality Dysfunction, part 2: expansion
ISBN:	0446605166 (ISBN13: 9780446605168)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Night's Dawn #1, Part 2 of 2

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The second part of the first book, this is the payoff after all that set up. A lot of space war action and other high sci-fi drama, if you're into that sort of thing. All well done.

In his first book, The Reality Dysfunction Part 1: Emergence, Peter F. Hamilton unleashed something huge, and in Part 2: Expansion, which I am reviewing today, carried his creation even further.The scope of this work is kinda hard to explain. Its on an equal footing with Dune or Foundation when it comes to fully realized universe. We get some very interesting projections of the future in fully changed, and barely human, combat mercenaries. Living ships and habitats and an ancient civilization,

I started off annoyed at the author for two reasons. 1) He seems to go out of his way to add more characters, more details, and more... everything, just to frustrate me. 2) His target audience is apparently the 15-year-old male who thinks that yes, of course the future consists of nothing but nubile young women who can't WAIT to have no-strings relations with everyone they meet.So yes, I was annoyed... but once I got over that, I started to notice that this book actually introduces several cool

Readability 6. Rating 5. A continuation of the prior book. I don't remember any details of this book, but my conclusion was not to continue with the series.

The second volume in the series ended abruptly But it ended well... Now I just need to wait to get the rest of the series, which is proving to be a bit of a problem the 5th volume is out of print and out of stock at all warehouses bummer, maybe Amazon will have it. The enemy is well out in the open now (to the main characters) conflicts are escalating, hope is stretched thin. Im sure the rest of the series will prove just as fantastic as the first two volumes. Hamilton is a master of blending

See note on first book in story arc. When I get to the end of the sixth book I'll probably modify some of these.

This volume is stronger than the first part, but still sadly enough contains the undead.