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mvkramer
Nov 30, 2014mvkramer rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
This book is a complex, long, space epic that takes a while to get started -- but once it does, boy does it move! Peter Hamilton does a great job with worldbuilding: a multi-planet human commonwealth bound together by wormholes, "rejuvenation" technology that lets people live for centuries, mysterious aliens that have built mystical "paths" between worlds, entire star systems contained in enigmatic force fields. Some plotlines are a bit slow and bloated, but the real science fiction elements - exploring mysterious star systems and dealing with potentially hostile aliens - are very interesting.