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The Reality Dysfunction
Series: The Night's Dawn trilogy
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Ideal for readers who enjoy expansive space operas, complex world-building, and epic science fiction sagas.
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The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton is the first in a sweeping galactic trilogy from the master of space opera, The Night's Dawn trilogy.
In AD 2600, the human race is finally realising its potential. The galaxy's colonised planets host a multitude of diverse cultures. Genetic engineering has defeated disease and produced extraordinary space-born creatures. Huge fleets of sentient trader starships thrive, living on the wealth created by industrialising entire star systems. And throughout inhabited space, the Confederation Navy keeps the peace.
Then something goes catastrophically wrong. On a primitive colony planet, a renegade criminal encounters an utterly alien entity. This unintended meeting triggers the release of those that should never see the light, threatening everything we've become. An extinct race named this phenomenon 'the Reality Dysfunction'. It is a nightmare that has haunted us since the dawn of time.
The Reality Dysfunction is followed by The Neutronium Alchemist and The Naked God.
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The Times calls it "Absolute vintage science-fiction" and praises Hamilton for bringing British sci-fi into "interstellar overdrive." Interzone describes the novel as "an epic in the traditional sense of the word" and "thunderously enjoyable."
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ISBN: 9781509868605
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 12 August 2018
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pan Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 55.0mm
Width: 132.0mm
Height: 199.0mm
Weight: 834g
Pages: 1232
About the Author
Peter F. Hamilton was born in Rutland in 1960 and now lives in Somerset. He began writing in 1987, and sold his first short story to Fear magazine in 1988. He has written many bestselling novels, including the Greg Mandel series, the Night's Dawn trilogy, the Commonwealth Saga, the Void trilogy, the Chronicle of the Fallers, short story collections and several standalone novels.
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