Pandora's Star
(Sprache: Englisch)
An imaginative and stunning tale of the perfect future threatened . . . a book of epic proportions not unlike Frank Herbert s Dune or Isaac Asimov s Foundation trilogy. SFRevu
The year is 2380. The Intersolar Commonwealth, a sphere of stars,...
The year is 2380. The Intersolar Commonwealth, a sphere of stars,...
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An imaginative and stunning tale of the perfect future threatened . . . a book of epic proportions not unlike Frank Herbert s Dune or Isaac Asimov s Foundation trilogy. SFRevuThe year is 2380. The Intersolar Commonwealth, a sphere of stars, contains more than six hundred worlds interconnected by a web of transport tunnels known as wormholes. At the farthest edge of the Commonwealth, astronomer Dudley Bose observes the impossible: over one thousand light-years away, a star . . . disappears. Since the location is too distant to reach by wormhole, the Second Chance, a faster-than-light starship commanded by Wilson Kime, a five-times-rejuvenated ex-NASA pilot, is dispatched to learn what has occurred and whether it represents a threat.
Opposed to the mission are the Guardians of Selfhood, led by Bradley Johansson. Shortly after the journey begins, Kime wonders if the crew of the Second Chance has been infiltrated. But soon enough he will have other worries. Halfway across the galaxy, something truly incredible is waiting: a deadly discovery whose unleashing will threaten to destroy the Commonwealth . . . and humanity itself.
Should be high on everyone s reading list . . . You won t be able to put it down. Nancy Pearl, NPR
Recommended . . . A large cast of characters, each with his own story, brings depth and variety to this far-future saga. Library Journal
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ONEThe star vanished from the center of the telescope s image in less time than a single human heartbeat. There was no mistake, Dudley Bose was looking right at it when it happened. He blinked in surprise, drawing back from the eyepiece. That s not right, he muttered.
He shivered slightly in reaction to the cold air around him, slapping gloved hands against his arms. His wife, Wendy, had insisted he wrap up well against the night, and he d dutifully left the house in a thick woolen coat and sturdy hiking trousers. As always when the sun fell below Gralmond s horizon, any warmth in the planet s thinner-than-average atmosphere dissipated almost immediately. With the telescope housing open to the elements at two o clock in the morning, the temperature had dropped enough to turn his every breath into a stream of gray mist.
Dudley shook the fatigue from his head, and leaned back into the eyepiece. The starfield pattern was the same there had been no slippage in the telescope s alignment but Dyson Alpha was still missing. It couldn t be that fast, he said.
He d been observing the Dyson Pair for fourteen months now, searching for the first clues of the envelopment that would so dramatically alter the emission spectrum. Until tonight there had been no change to the tiny yellow speck of light twelve hundred forty light-years away from Gralmond that was Dyson Alpha.
He d known there would be a change; it was the astronomy department at Oxford University back on Earth that had first noticed the anomoly during a routine sky scan back in 2170, two hundred and ten years ago. Since the previous scan twenty years earlier, two stars, a K-type and an M-type three years apart, had changed their emission spectrum completely to nonvisible infrared. For a few brief months the discovery had caused some excited debate among the remnants of the astronomy fraternity about how they could decay into red giants so quickly, and the extraordinary coincidence of two stellar
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neighbors doing so simultaneously. Then a newly settled planet fifty light-years farther out from Earth reported that the pair were still visible in their original spectrum. Working back across the distance, checking the spectrum at various distances from Earth, allowed astronomers to work out that the change to both stars had occurred over a period of approximately seven or eight years.
Given that amount of time, the nature of the change ceased to become a question of astronomy; stars of that category took a great deal longer to transform into red giants. Their emission hadn t changed due to any natural stellar process; it was the direct result of technological intervention on the grandest possible scale.
Somebody had built a solid shell around each star. It was a feat whose scale was rivaled only by its time frame. Eight years was astonishingly swift to fabricate such a gigantic structure, and this advanced civilization had apparently built two at the same time. Even so, the concept wasn t entirely new to the human race.
In the twenty-first century, a physicist named Freeman Dyson had postulated that the artifacts of a technologically advanced civilization would ultimately surround their star in order to utilize all of its energy. Now someone had turned his ancient hypothesis into reality. It was inevitable that the two stars would be formally christened the Dyson Pair.
Speculative papers were written after the Oxford announcement, and theoretical studies performed into how to dismantle Jovian-size planets to produce such a shell. But there was no real urgency connected to the discovery. The human race had already encountered several sentient alien species, all of them reassuringly harmless; and the Intersolar Commonwealth was expanding steadily. It would be a matter of only a few centuries until a wormhol
Given that amount of time, the nature of the change ceased to become a question of astronomy; stars of that category took a great deal longer to transform into red giants. Their emission hadn t changed due to any natural stellar process; it was the direct result of technological intervention on the grandest possible scale.
Somebody had built a solid shell around each star. It was a feat whose scale was rivaled only by its time frame. Eight years was astonishingly swift to fabricate such a gigantic structure, and this advanced civilization had apparently built two at the same time. Even so, the concept wasn t entirely new to the human race.
In the twenty-first century, a physicist named Freeman Dyson had postulated that the artifacts of a technologically advanced civilization would ultimately surround their star in order to utilize all of its energy. Now someone had turned his ancient hypothesis into reality. It was inevitable that the two stars would be formally christened the Dyson Pair.
Speculative papers were written after the Oxford announcement, and theoretical studies performed into how to dismantle Jovian-size planets to produce such a shell. But there was no real urgency connected to the discovery. The human race had already encountered several sentient alien species, all of them reassuringly harmless; and the Intersolar Commonwealth was expanding steadily. It would be a matter of only a few centuries until a wormhol
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Autoren-Porträt von Peter F. Hamilton
Peter F. Hamilton is the author of numerous novels, including A Night Without Stars, The Abyss Beyond Dreams, Great North Road, The Evolutionary Void, The Temporal Void, The Dreaming Void, Judas Unchained, Pandora s Star, Misspent Youth, Fallen Dragon, and the acclaimed epic Night s Dawn trilogy (The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, and The Naked God). He lives with his family in England.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Peter F. Hamilton
- 2005, 992 Seiten, Maße: 10,7 x 17,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Ballantine
- ISBN-10: 0345479211
- ISBN-13: 9780345479211
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
The depth and clarity of the future Hamilton envisions is as complex and involving as they come. Publishers Weekly (starred review)The author s expansive vision of the future combines action and intrigue on a panoramic scale. Library Journal
Astounding . . . Thrilling . . . Hamilton uses technology to excellent effect. Science Fiction Age
Shows how thought-provoking yet entertaining science fiction can be. Some of the best fiction . . . in years. Midwest Book Review
[Hamilton is] taking on one of sf s (and maybe all of literature s) primal jobs: the creation of a world with the scale and complexity of the real one. Locus
[Hamilton is] a rare talent. The Denver Post
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