Judas Unchained: Commonwealth Saga 2
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4.5 • 119 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Judas Unchained is the high-action sequel to Pandora's Star from Peter F. Hamilton, one of the world's bestselling science fiction writers.
For hundreds of years the human race has been manipulated into starting a war that could destroy civilisation. As Chief Investigator Paula Myo hunts down the terrifying creature behind the ploy, the invasion continues and dozens of worlds fall to the enemy.
Admiral Kime orders a defence with war-winning super-weapons, only to find that their adversaries have equally powerful armaments.
How they got them is the question. Has the Commonwealth's top-secret defence project been compromised, or is the truth even worse?
The story of the Commonwealth Universe continues with:
The Dreaming Void: The Void Trilogy 1
The Temporal Void: The Void Trilogy 2
The Evolutionary Void: The Void Trilogy 3
The Abyss Beyond Dreams: Chronicle of the Fallers 1
Night Without Stars: Chronicle of the Fallers 2
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in the 24th century, bestseller Hamilton's richly satisfying space opera is less a sequel to Pandora's Star (2004) than the second half of one dauntingly complicated, wonderfully imagined novel. The diverse human Commonwealth is fighting back against the implacably hostile mass-mind Prime, while discovering that agents of another hostile alien force are sabotaging war efforts. In a multitude of subplots, Hamilton adroitly leaps from the struggles of one engaging, quirky character to another. Meanwhile, the main action expands and the super-scientific weapons become increasingly terrible. Then the story shifts focus and presents a moral question: if it's now possible to wipe out the Prime, is it permissible to commit genocide? Hamilton demonstrates that humans not only can shape huge masses of data to their own ends but also can recognize when to stop doing so. Some of the people manage to transcend their small, personal concerns sometimes. The density of detail may slow readers down, but the distinctive characters and the plot's headlong drive will pull them along. In more ways than one, this two-part work is monumental.
Customer Reviews
The story is great but full of typos and errors
It's like the conversion to ebook was retyped as there are a lot of typos and errors with names through out the book that aren't in my physical copies.
The story is great, and I love the science behind the tech that Hamilton fills his stories with. I honestly can't say if the original two books in Pandoras Star and Judas Unchained are my favourites or if the void trilogy top them, but they are a great scifi series with great characters. Story is 5/5, this ebook version with its errors is 2/5.