The Temporal Void (Void Trilogy)
by Peter F. Hamilton
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Author: Peter F. HamiltonEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-03-24
ISBN: 0345496558
Number of pages: 736
Publisher: Del Rey
Book Reviews of The Temporal Void (Void Trilogy)
Book Review: The Story Continues
Summary: 5 Stars
The Temporal Void (2009) is the second SF novel in the Void Trilogy, following The Dreaming Void. In the previous volume, the Accelerator Faction manipulated the Commonwealth to gain their own postphysical dream. Then a Second Dreamer arose and released new dreams of the Void into the gaiafield.
The Second Dreamer was not aware of her identity. Yet the Living Dream organization sought to use her to gain access to the Void. The Ocisen Empire sent a fleet toward the Commonwealth to prevent the Living Dream migration into the Void.
In this novel, Edeard is a constable in the city of Makkathran within the Void. He is known as Waterwalker for his telekinetic ability to support himself on a calm body of water. He is planning on removing the gangs from Makkathran.
Inigo is the Void Dreamer. He is also the founder of Living Dream. He had disappeared seventy years ago.
Ethan is the Cleric Conservator of the Living Dream organization. He has recently gained his post, primarily by declaring that Living Dream will soon migrate to the Void. He sends paramilitary troops to Viota to capture the Second Dreamer.
Aaron is a special operative for an unknown ANA faction. He is charged with finding Inigo and bringing him back. Aaron is only aware of his next options when he completes the previous stage of his task.
Corrie-Lyn was Inigo's lover. Since his disappearance, she served on the Living Dream Cleric Council. Aaron persuaded her to go looking for Inigo.
Paula Myo is an agent for ANA:Governance. Centuries ago she had been an investigator within the Serious Crimes Directorate. The Starflyer War had only made her life more hectic.
Oscar Monroe is the Martyr. He had given his life to defeat the Starflyer. Centuries later he had been relifed. Now he is assisting Paula by finding the Second Dreamer.
Justine is the daughter of Gore Burnelli and mother of Kazimir, the Supreme Commander of the Commonwealth Navy. She is living near the Wall and observing the Void.
Marius is an agent of the Accelerator faction of ANA. He has provided Living Dream with Ultra drives and other services to promote their migration into the Void. He is probably going to ask a favor from them at some point.
The Delivery Man is an agent of the Conservative faction of ANA. Lately he has been doing some extra tasks, mostly checking on the actions of Marius.
Troblum is a physicist and a Starflyer collector. He has also worked secretly for the Accelerator faction. He has decided to vanish from the galaxy, but first he has to move his collection.
Araminta is a divorcee living in Colwyn City on Viotia. She has been refurbishing apartments and selling them to various buyers. She is involved with a multiple person, one mind and about fifty bodies. She is also the Second Dreamer. Araminta's last dream denied the Living Dream migration into the Void.
In this story, Justine is fleeing from Centurion Station as the Void expands. All the species on the planet are doing the same. She gains the Silverbird -- an Ultra drive starship -- just before the station starts to crumble.
As the Silverbird hovers above the planet, Justine decides to enter the Void itself to negotiate some sort of agreement with the Nucleus. She asks her father to announce her intentions and to beg assistance from the Second Dreamer. Gore broadcasts a call on Viota to request aid for his daughter.
Araminta returns to her apartment and hides from the Ellezelin paramilitary troops searching for her. Oscar and a few Knights Guardian team is also onplanet searching for her. The populace of Colwyn City are beginning to fight back against the invading troops.
Araminta observes Gore's plea and works out a way to dream to a Skylord to request their help without alerting Living Dream. She explains the presence of Justine and asks for her admittance into the Void. The Void extrudes a portal and takes Justine within itself.
Troblum visits Stubsy Florac on Sholapur. He calls Paula to tell her where to meet him. Then Cat lets him know that has taken control of the situation.
Paula is already present on Sholapur and arrives at the mansion soon after receiving Troblum's call. She is just is time to force Cat to flee and to allow Troblum to escape. All she is left with is the dead and dying.
Aaron, Inigo and Corrie-Lyn are in a ground crawler fleeing the imminent implosion of Hanko. The surface is breaking up, forming rifts in the ice. Eventually they come to a giant rift. Aaron gets out to examine the fissure and finds it to be a giant cliff. Then Inigo fires on the ledge and drops Aaron down the cliff.
Kazimir sends a River-class starship -- the Yenisey -- to deal with the Ocisen fleet. The ship crew pulls the Ocisen flagship from hyperspace. Then a spherical starship unveils and fires on the Yenisey.
Meanwhile, Edeard is fighting the gangs in Makkathran city. He soon discovers that some ruling families are involved with the gangs. Then he finds a girl that he wants to marry.
This tale features even more of Edeard's story within the Void. In the outside universe, the Living Dream finds themselves even more in debt to the Accelerator faction. ANA:Governance and the less disruptive factions are dismayed at the extent of the Accelerator conspiracy.
This story has the common traits of most meganovels. It has over 700 pages of narrative and a timeline. But it does not have a Dramatis Personae, a serious omission. The principal characters are listed above, but many more play their roles within this tale.
One begins to question the nature of the Void. The story interjects some unusual features inside of the huge singularity. Maybe it is a Firstlife postphysical reality.
Nonetheless, the plot is quite interesting. It twists and turns, with many unexpected events. The final volume of this trilogy is coming in 2010. Read and enjoy!
Highly recommended for Hamilton fans and for anyone else who enjoys tales of interstellar cultures, cultural diversity, and determined heroines.
-Arthur W. Jordin
Summary of The Temporal Void (Void Trilogy)
Many of Peter F. Hamilton?s dazzling novels, which offer startling perspectives on tomorrow?s technological and cultural trends, are epic in scope, spanning vast stretches of space and time. And yet they are grounded in characters?human, alien, and other?who, for all their strangeness, are still able to touch our hearts and fire our imaginations. Now Hamilton returns to the universe of his acclaimed Commonwealth saga with The Temporal Void, the second volume in the trilogy that began with The Dreaming Void.Long ago, a human astrophysicist, Inigo, began dreaming scenes from the life of a remarkable human being named Edeard, who lived within the Void, a self-contained microuniverse at the heart of the galaxy. There, under the beneficent gaze of mysterious godlike entities, humans possessed uncanny psychic abilities, and Edeard?s were the strongest of all. Equally strong was his determination to bring justice and freedom to a world terrorized by criminal violence and corruption.
Inigo?s inspirational dreams, shared by hundreds of millions throughout the galaxy-spanning gaiafield, gave birth to a religion?Living Dream. But when the appearance of a Second Dreamer seemed to trigger the expansion of the Void?an expansion that is devouring everything in its path?the Intersolar Commonwealth was thrown into turmoil. With the adherents of Living Dream determined to set forth on a dangerous pilgrimage into the Void, interstellar war threatens to erupt.
With time running out, the fate of humanity hinges on a handful of people. There is Araminta, only now awakening to the unwelcome fact that she is the mysterious Second Dreamer?and to the dire responsibilities that go with it; Inigo, whose private dreams hint at a darker truth behind Edeard?s legendary life; Paula Myo, the ruthless field operative of the Commonwealth, whose search for Araminta and Inigo is about to yield a most unpleasant surprise; and Justine, whose desperate gamble places her within the Void, where the godlike Skylords hold the power to save the universe . . . or destroy it.
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