Re: Hamilton's _The Dreaming Void_

Sea Wasp wrote:

> GSV Three Minds in a Can wrote:
 
> > So did you manage to sleep through the ~5000 pages of _The
> > Neutronium  Alchemist_ etc? The UK (3 volume) versions are the only
> > books I've had  which are a) too thick to hold comfortably, and b)
> > are shedding pages,  having exceeded the MMPB bookbinder's art.
> > 
> 
> 	There's a reason it was 6 books over here.
> 
> 	I rather enjoyed that series.

I've expressed before that I thought he devised one of the better Space
Opera backgrounds. The Adamist/Edenist divide, the kinds of different
****ps, the habitats, all great. I loved the system where the
prospectors are finding bits of old alien tech, for instance.

Unfortuately, I didn't like the story he chose to tell with all that
great background. I'd have been a lot happier with a Niven-style batch
of small novels and shorter works exploring various aspects of that
universe (yeah, I know there were a few short stories already).




Brian

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