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I just blew through 1,000 page Exodus by Peter F Hamilton. I’m pretty mixed on PFH. I loved Commonweath but I’ve tried and fail to get into his others. I’m taking a stab at Nights Dawn but that’s besides the point
I thought Exodus was great. His best work in quite some time. The universe, pacing, major plot lines - all great. Good characters. The dude is really really imaginative.
The book is actually contract work where it’s and in-universe tie in novel with a new sci fi RPG that’s in development but some legit ex-BioWare guys. I’m very skeptical that the game won’t be woke slop since it’s being published by WOTC.
All this is to say that I hope more people read this book and it has some success. PFH is legit and doesn’t seem to have gone performatively woke even if he has been bullied into no longer including sex scenes in his stories.
I'm honestly surprised he's still around considering everything, still more that he's getting that kind of work. Read the first two nights dawn books in elementary school, and the Commonwealth trilogy when it first came out.
Probably should get around to rereading and finishing the former, but it's harder to justify burning through a pile of doorstops in a weekend the way you could as a kid.
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