The Reality Dysfunction
- 862
- Pages
- about 16 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Reality Dysfunction” is space opera on the grandest scale, crowded with inventive worlds and made for readers hungry for big ideas. Its size is also where opinions part: several readers find the explanations and descriptions excessive in a book of more than 850 pages, and some think the ending rushed. Some also note that its handling of sexuality and its racial language show the novel’s age. It is the first volume of a trilogy.
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About the book
The Reality Dysfunction is a science fiction novel by British writer Peter F. Hamilton, the first book in The Night's Dawn Trilogy. It is followed by The Neutronium Alchemist and The Naked God. It was first published in the United Kingdom by Macmillan Publishers on 26 January 1996. The first US edition, which was broken into two volumes, Emergence and Expansion, followed in July and August 1997 from Time Warner Books. The second US edition, published by Orbit Books in October 2008, is published in a single volume.
Reading order · The Night's Dawn Trilogy
Full order & progress →- The Reality DysfunctionThis book
7.87.8 / 10 - The Neutronium Alchemist
8.08.0 / 10 - The Naked God
7.97.9 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.9 across 293 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 67% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.9 | 293 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Reality Dysfunction?
It has 862 pages — longer than 97% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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