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Salvation

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Humanity’s complex relationship with technology spirals out of control in this first book of an all-new series from “the owner of the most powerful imagination in science fiction” (Ken Follett).

“How far ‘space opera’ has come! The Old Masters of sci-fi would admire the scope and sweep of Salvation.”The Wall Street Journal

In the year 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. Cutting-edge technology of linked jump gates has rendered most forms of transportation—including starships—virtually obsolete. Every place on Earth, every distant planet humankind has settled, is now merely a step away from any other. All seems wonderful—until a crashed alien spaceship of unknown origin is found on a newly located world eighty-nine light-years from Earth, carrying a cargo as strange as it is horrifying. To assess the potential of the threat, a high-powered team is dispatched to investigate.  But one of them may not be all they seem. . . .
Bursting with tension and big ideas, Peter F. Hamilton’s Salvation is the first book of an all-new series that highlights the inventiveness of an author at the top of his game.

Praise for Salvation

“[A] vast, intricate sci-fi showstopper . . . The journey grips just as hard as the reveal.”Daily Mail (U.K.)
 
“Exciting, wildly imaginative and quite possibly Hamilton’s best book to date.”SFX
“Dynamic, multifaceted characters, strong mind-expanding concepts, and impressive flair for language [make Salvation a] rare celestial event. . . . One of Britain’s bestselling sci-fi authors has launched an addictive new book as the initial stage of what is sure to be an intriguing new series called the Salvation Sequence.”SyFyWire 
“Peter Hamilton just keeps getting better and better with each book, more assured and more craftsmanly adroit, and more inventive. [Salvation is] a bravura performance from start to finish. . . . Hamilton is juggling chainsaws while simultaneously doing needlepoint over a shark tank. It’s a virtuoso treat, and I for one can hardly wait for Salvation Lost.”—Paul Di Filippo, Locus 
“Peter F. Hamilton is known as one of the world’s greatest sci-fi writers for a reason. . . . Salvation is well worth the effort and a great introduction to some good old-fashioned space opera.”—Fantasy Book Review
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    • Kirkus

      August 1, 2018
      First of a projected alien-contact trilogy from one of the leading purveyors (A Night Without Stars, 2016, etc.) of doorstopper space operas--although this one squeezes in at a positively emaciated 576 pages.Early in the 23rd century, when a wrecked alien ship turns up on a remote planet, the all-powerful Connexion Corp, which provides instantaneous travel via quantum-entangled, step-through portals, organizes a team to investigate: security chief Feriton Kayne; Connexion bigwig Yuri Alster; Callum Hepburn, who works for the Utopials, an independent human civilization; Alik Monday, an FBI operative from Corporate Earth; and various assistants. What's aboard the alien vessel proves both difficult to fathom and extremely unnerving. The actual investigation moves at glacial speed, though, interspersed as it is with backstories involving team members plus chapters in an independent thread set in the far future, where child soldiers train to meet a mysterious and all-conquering alien enemy. In the present, meanwhile, we hear about two sets of aliens. The nonhuman Olyix have stopped off at Earth to refuel on their endless voyage across the universe, where, at the end of time, they expect to meet their god; they seem benevolent, but not everyone agrees. The Neána, whom readers know about but none of the characters may, arrived secretly some years ago, grew some human bodies, and sent them out to do--what? So, readers will contend with a choppy narrative, obvious delays and sidebars, and long stretches that read like an editor's advice to a first novelist on how not to introduce your characters or propel the storyline and veer dangerously close to dull. It's a yarn, however, that packs a teeth-rattling wallop when it finally gets there.Not altogether satisfying, but Hamilton expertly keeps his audience coming back for more.

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    • Booklist

      August 1, 2018
      The Connexion Corporation changed civilization with portals that connect distant galaxies in a single step, to say nothing of travel between cites or countries. The availability of instant travel and the influence of aliens who came to Earth seeking the energy to continue their pilgrimage to the end of time combine to provide the backdrop for the team assigned to assess the threat of an alien artifact found in a corner of the known galaxy. Hamilton's (A Night without Stars?, 2016) latest is an engaging collection of tales from the present Assessment Team, ranging from members' past adventures and the mysteries that led them to be included on the team to 500 years in the future, when children train for a war they know is coming. The first book in the Salvation Sequence serves as a jumping off point as readers await what will befall the Assessment Team, why it becomes legendary in the future, and how its adventures connect to the visitors from another galaxy who come to Earth in the distant past. (Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)

    • Kirkus

      August 1, 2018
      First of a projected alien-contact trilogy from one of the leading purveyors (A Night Without Stars, 2016, etc.) of doorstopper space operas--although this one squeezes in at a positively emaciated 576 pages.Early in the 23rd century, when a wrecked alien ship turns up on a remote planet, the all-powerful Connexion Corp, which provides instantaneous travel via quantum-entangled, step-through portals, organizes a team to investigate: security chief Feriton Kayne; Connexion bigwig Yuri Alster; Callum Hepburn, who works for the Utopials, an independent human civilization; Alik Monday, an FBI operative from Corporate Earth; and various assistants. What's aboard the alien vessel proves both difficult to fathom and extremely unnerving. The actual investigation moves at glacial speed, though, interspersed as it is with backstories involving team members plus chapters in an independent thread set in the far future, where child soldiers train to meet a mysterious and all-conquering alien enemy. In the present, meanwhile, we hear about two sets of aliens. The nonhuman Olyix have stopped off at Earth to refuel on their endless voyage across the universe, where, at the end of time, they expect to meet their god; they seem benevolent, but not everyone agrees. The Ne�na, whom readers know about but none of the characters may, arrived secretly some years ago, grew some human bodies, and sent them out to do--what? So, readers will contend with a choppy narrative, obvious delays and sidebars, and long stretches that read like an editor's advice to a first novelist on how not to introduce your characters or propel the storyline and veer dangerously close to dull. It's a yarn, however, that packs a teeth-rattling wallop when it finally gets there.Not altogether satisfying, but Hamilton expertly keeps his audience coming back for more.

      COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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