The abyss beyond dreams ending

I just finished the abyss beyond dreams and the ending has me scratching my head. Help me understand the timeline of books in peter f. Cover art for the abyss beyond dreams was unveiled on march 19, 2014. Not that theyre all a continuous series, but rather a standalone misspent youth, a duology known as the commonwealth saga pandoras star and judas unchained, and his void trilogy the dreaming void, the temporal void, and the evolutionary void.

The abyss beyond dreams, at 640 pages, is big, but not as big as some of the other commonwealth novels, which check in at over pages. The abyss beyond dreams well deserved title given the content is the first of a duology ending with night without stars which i expect to advance the commonwealth universe beyond the evolutionary void timeline, though for now we are still within it. Rather it is a novel that feels almost bored with its authors reputation. The book, which was released on 21 october 2014, is the first of the.

The abyss beyond dreams had the potential to link the loose ends left from the commonwealth and void universe, but it failed to some extent. Its not clear whether the abyss beyond dreams is hamiltons belief that he either has. The time frame is clearly laid out by the fact that not all of inigos dreams have been released yet, putting it closer to, but before, the beginning of the void trilogy. At the end of the day, the planned duology is once again nigels story, not slvastas, kysandras, or anything elses. The book, which was released on 21 october 2014, is the first of the twopart the chronicle of the fallers. I did annotate the dramatis personae at the end of my copy.

This bring up the point that at the end of abyss beyond dreams its really only a few days outside of the void. But i realised that the author will take his time, untitled fallers 2 is expected to come sometime in 2017. The first chapter of the book covers the arrival of the fleet of the brandt dynasty in the void. The abyss beyond dreams by peter f hamilton chronicle of the. Even with its smaller size, as i said earlier this is a complex book. The abyss beyond dreams great and well deserved title given the content is the first of a duology ending with night without stars which i expect to advance the commonwealth universe beyond the evolutionary void timeline, though for now we are still within it. And it will not end until the culture has gone to war with death itself. A novel set in the commonwealth universe, during the period between the events of the commonwealth saga and the void trilogy see the commonwealth universe timeline. The plot is particularly weak and if it were not for nigel, then the story would be flat only. Kysandra blair joins forces with nigel sheldon to aid his manipulation of the revolution, which is merely a means to an end. The end of the book has the clone sheldon destroying the void.

Hamilton announced in 2011 that he was developing a new. They were intending to found a new colony outside the commonwealth, but were drawn into the void by an unknown event or agent, the. While the abyss beyond dreams is technically the seventh novel in the commonwealth saga which began with 2002s misspent youth, it still makes for a morethansuitable entry point into the universe, as hamilton does an excellent job getting the reader up to speed on all the futuretech and lingo, the history of the commonwealth, and the nature of the mysterious void, a black holelike. Very romance driven scifi, but with a lot of big twists you wont see coming by the end. The abyss beyond dreams great and well deserved title given the content is the first of a duology ending with night without stars which i expect to advance the. Very romancedriven scifi, but with a lot of big twists you wont see coming by the end. The book was published by pan macmillan in october 2014. The abyss beyond dreams by peter f hamilton chronicle of.

He is stranded on a second void world, however, beinvenido and must devise a new plan. Raiel, nigel enters the void in an effort to end its destruction from within. In the abyss beyond dreams, nigel sheldon a clone enters the void with the assistance of the raiel, seeking to land on querencia and rescue the commonwealth citizens stranded there, destroying the void in the process. Fitting between the events of the commonwealth saga and the void trilogy, the abyss beyond dreams is the first in an expansive duology, from the master of space opera. Night without stars speculation the unisphere view topic. The novel returns to hamiltons farfuture commonwealth universe in the 34th century, in the time following the events of the void trilogy. The abyss beyond dreams well deserved title given the content is the first of a duology ending with night without stars which i expect to.