#189 in Science fiction
The Abyss Beyond Dreams
- 640
- Pages
- about 12 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Abyss Beyond Dreams” returns to the Commonwealth universe and finds a good mystery: the Void and a world of castaways inside it. In this first of two volumes, readers like both Peter F. Hamilton’s Void as an idea and the Fallers as an enemy. Some devotees of the Commonwealth books give up on the politics of the planet Bienvenido, which remind them of medieval fantasy; others find it less gripping than his other novels.
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About the book
The first volume in the Chronicles of the Fallers, The Abyss Beyond Dreams is an incredible adventure, exploring the mystery at the heart of the Peter F. Hamilton's sprawling Commonwealth Universe. For fans of Iain M. Banks and Alaistair Reynolds. To save their civilization, he must destroy it. When a so-called prophet sees visions of a lost civilization, Nigel Sheldon is asked to investigate. Especially as these dreams seem to be coming from the Void – a mysterious area of space with hugely destructive capabilities. Then Nigel crash-lands inside the Void, and finds so much more than he expected. Bienvenido: a planet populated by survivors from long-vanished Commonwealth ships. For centuries their descendants have been fighting a desperate battle against the Fallers, space-born predators that have evolved to conquer worlds. And Nigel soon realizes that the Fallers hold the key to the destruction of the Void itself. If he can survive long enough to find it . . .
Reading order · The Chronicle of the Fallers
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.3 across 163 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 53% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 8.0 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 8.3 | 163 | 100% |
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How long is The Abyss Beyond Dreams?
It has 640 pages — longer than 87% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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