Pandora's Star

There are all sorts of ways to cheat death in science fiction and fantasy. It’s only natural: mortality is kind of a bummer, and a huge barrier to cross—one we all secretly hope we’ll be able to vault during our lifetimes. Until humanity finally figures out how to crack that particular problem, the imaginations of numerous […]

Among space opera aficionados, Peter F. Hamilton is best known for the Commonwealth novels, a centuries-spanning sci-fi saga pitting utopian human societies against godlike aliens, with all the cool ships and weird tech one could ask for. In the far future, a global network of portals known as Connexion has revolutionized civilization, making possible everything […]