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The Dreaming Void

Void, Book 1

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The Dreaming Void

By: Peter F. Hamilton
Narrated by: Toby Longworth
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Will they find the utopian dream – or a galactic nightmare? From Peter F. Hamilton, The Dreaming Void is the first in an epic space opera trilogy. Set in his expansive Commonwealth universe, it is perfect for fans of Iain M. Banks and Stephen Baxter.

AD 3580. The Commonwealth has spread its civilization throughout the galaxy. Its citizens are privileged and protected by a powerful navy. And at the galaxy’s centre is the Void, a sealed universe created by aliens billions of years ago. Yet the Void isn’t inert. It’s expanding – and now it wants to make contact.

The Void chooses Inigo as its conduit and he channels dreams of a simpler, better life within its bounds. His visions attract followers – determined to seek this utopia. And they’ll cross the Void’s forbidden boundaries to reach it. However, this act could trigger push it to grow beyond all control . . . destroying everything in its path.

'Epic, multi-stranded, full of wonders' – SFX

The Dreaming Void is followed by The Temporal Void in this stunning trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton.

©2007 Peter F. Hamilton (P)2008 Macmillan Digital Audio Adventure Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction Interstellar Utopian

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Critic reviews

As epic and far-ranging as his previous bestsellers. Hamilton is the master of widescreen baroque (Guardian)
This is thrilling stuff . . . compulsively readable and abundantly full of ideas (The Times)
Unmissable (Starburst)
Powerfully addictive . . . and hugely satisfying (FantasyBookReview)
The Dreaming Void has all the things you hope for from a novel by Peter F. Hamilton . . . Hamilton is capable of superb writing, which you shall find in The Dreaming Void . . . [the] execution is simply wonderful. Hamilton is playing to his strengths. (The Agony Column)
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Peter F Hamilton just gets better and better, this is his first Commonwealth series book available on Audible. It basicaly contains two seperate books, a hard sci-fi book with lots of knowing winks to his previous Starflyer books and a medieval style fantasy tale, although of course somewhere down the line they will connect.

The charcters are excellenty drawn, and the plot is tight yet expansive. I particularly like the details he adds in some of the sub plots that makes the book come alive. Thoroughly recommended and cant wait for the next book (this being the first of a trilogy)

Superb

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start to finish an awsome story. The characters come to life with this narrator. don't be put off by the length. This can be listened to time and time again.

amazing

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Toby Longworth is the perfect narrator for Peter F Hamilton's latest sci-fi epic.
From the first few words I was hooked and drawn into the many stranded plot. The pace never flags and Toby's characterisation is engaging and entertaining.

Engagingly brilliant

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I've been looking for another truly great sci-fi author forever. I've only listened to the first in the trilogy so far but, dare I say it, this is as good as Greg Bear at his best. If you liked Eon, Eternity, The Forge of God, Anvil of stars etc you will love this. If you liked The Rama saga by Arthur C Clarke, or The Foundation saga by Isaac Asimov, this book if right up your nebula. Don't hesitate, buy this now! The narration (barring his voice for anyone in the story who's drunk) is also rather excellent.

Utterly utterly marvelous!

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I picked this book up purely on a whim, having never read anything by the author before and simply being attracted by the bargin of a single credit for so many hours of book.

I couldn't have been more happy with my purchase. The story is grand with the action constant and the voice acting of Toby Longworth is simply stunning. His voices are varied to the point you can easily tell which character is speaking and indeed what they are feeling.

I'm waiting now with bated breath for the second book. I managed to resist buying the dead tree edition so I can have the joy of having it read to me hopefully by the same fantastic talent.

A wonderful story read by a brillant voice artist

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I had never read anything by Peter Hamilton before but this was a superb listen, it kept me on the edge of my seat for weeks and I am really keen to read the next part of the story. I would highly recommend this original and inventive book to anyone who wonders where mankind could eventually end up and whether with exceptionally long lives we would become better people. From the evidence of this book that is unlikely.

The Dreaming Void

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What made the experience of listening to The Dreaming Void the most enjoyable?

I have been listening to Peter F Hamilton's books and most of these stories are the basic tale of good -v- evil. The worlds that Peter Hamilton has created using a mixture of science fact and science fiction to believable.

So far they have been narrated by John Lee and I have got used to his interpretations of the characters. It is a pity that Toby Longworth didn't listen to the previous audio books to keep some sort of continuity. The ones that jarred where Paula and Oscar.

Otherwise, he has a good voice.

If you listen to it while doing other things, you may have to replay as some of the story has facts that are absolutely essential.

Who was your favorite character and why?

The joy of PFH's books are the many characters and you have to keep your wits about you to know where you are. The characters are all believable. I loved the relationship between Hakim and Eddiard and Eddiard and his fellow constables.

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

Yes as in come cases the story moved so fast you had to listen quite hard but that is the style of the story.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

When Eddiard's village was ransacked by the bandits.

Any additional comments?

Good story.

Not sure about the narrator!

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This trilogy follows the Commonwealth Saga books! This book takes a while to get going and I know a lot of people don't like the narrator's different accent choices but I actually thought it worked! Peter F Hamilton writes an incredible epic story with all the seemingly independent story arcs coming together in brilliant ways - there are also nods to the previous books and characters. For me the future presented by Peter is the most accurate that I've ever seen presented. Hats off to him! buy all of his books!

READ PANDORAS STAR AND JUDSS UNCHAINED FIRST!!

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Surprisingly great book and Narration. Just a shame the narrator for the other two parts of the trilogy changed. But to be honest I got this trilogy because of the narrator of the second and third book.

The Universe shaped by the author is amazing and very remenescing of the way Ian M. Banks did it in his novels.

Highly recommended

Amazing Story Amazing Narrator

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As good as a tale as you expect from PFH my only complaint was a couple of the voices.... what happened to Paula Myo her voice has changed into a bad Chris Eubank impression nothing like in the Commonwealth Saga where she sounded reasonable!

Good but...

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