Salvation
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Description
'A twisty and hugely satisfying SF thriller that opens a portal on a new and exciting series' - Alastair Reynolds, author of Revelation Space
Know your enemy - or be defeated.
An alien shipwreck is found on a newly discovered world, and it carries a cargo as strange as it is horrifying. Security Director Feriton Kayne assembles a high-powered squad to assess the threat. But one of the group is hiding something - it will be up to the team to bring back answers, answers that will change everything . . .
Back on Earth, humanity can extend lifespans indefinitely, travel to the stars via portal technology and even make deserts bloom. We seem invulnerable. So when the alien Olyix contacted us, years earlier, we welcomed them. They needed fuel for their pilgrimage across the galaxy - and in exchange they helped advance our technology. But will they prove a blessing - or a curse?
'A startlingly fresh, vigorous and original cosmic saga' - Stephen Baxter
'Crammed with cutting-edge ideas' - The Guardian
'Exciting, wildly imaginative and quite possible Hamilton's best book to date' - SFX Magazine, 5 Stars
The Salvation Sequence
Salvation
Salvation Lost
The Saints of Salvation
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Не плохие идеи: телепорт. Прижимом для всего. Людей, машин и даже старых отходов, которые на границу солнечной планеты телепортируются. Заселение планет. Шлем корабль с порталом. Ждём пока долетит и перемещаем туда все что нужно! На земле практически не ездит транспорт. Дороги разобрали. Живешь в одном месте, работать можешь везде! У богатых Квартиры сделаны так, что комнаты находятся в разных места и при этом не тол ко Земли!!! И они так же легко туда порождают, как и обычные люди в их комроты проходя в дверном проеме. :)
All i was looking for was some decent fast food sci-fi and this still managed to massively disappoint. Hamilton gives us a universe that has: - infinite energy - infinite food - infinite (physical) ressources - instant (ftl) travel via portals to anywhere a portal has been placed Sounds like a proper utopia, right? Except that society is mostly a universal surveillance society ruled by corporate overlords and corrupt governments with zero rule of law. That could still be an interesting premise and kinda cyberpunk. The problem is that it all falls flat in the way it's presented and with how the story is structured. We get to read in excruciating detail about our protagonists and how they're willing to employ torture, kill, blackmail and threaten anyone that gets in the way of their goal, even if the goal is something as mundane as finding the boyfriend of a company ceo's daughter. Oh, and there's extra-legal 'rendition' too. Which everyone loves because it's so convenient. The cherry on top is that the YA future sections of the book call these guys the "saints". This all feels super tone-deaf to me and i didn't enjoy the backstories at all. If the hook sounds interesting to someone reading this story, but the going gets kinda rough, i'd recommend to just read the first and last two chapters of the book. Cuz the rest sucked.
Description
'A twisty and hugely satisfying SF thriller that opens a portal on a new and exciting series' - Alastair Reynolds, author of Revelation Space
Know your enemy - or be defeated.
An alien shipwreck is found on a newly discovered world, and it carries a cargo as strange as it is horrifying. Security Director Feriton Kayne assembles a high-powered squad to assess the threat. But one of the group is hiding something - it will be up to the team to bring back answers, answers that will change everything . . .
Back on Earth, humanity can extend lifespans indefinitely, travel to the stars via portal technology and even make deserts bloom. We seem invulnerable. So when the alien Olyix contacted us, years earlier, we welcomed them. They needed fuel for their pilgrimage across the galaxy - and in exchange they helped advance our technology. But will they prove a blessing - or a curse?
'A startlingly fresh, vigorous and original cosmic saga' - Stephen Baxter
'Crammed with cutting-edge ideas' - The Guardian
'Exciting, wildly imaginative and quite possible Hamilton's best book to date' - SFX Magazine, 5 Stars
The Salvation Sequence
Salvation
Salvation Lost
The Saints of Salvation
Book Information
Posts
Не плохие идеи: телепорт. Прижимом для всего. Людей, машин и даже старых отходов, которые на границу солнечной планеты телепортируются. Заселение планет. Шлем корабль с порталом. Ждём пока долетит и перемещаем туда все что нужно! На земле практически не ездит транспорт. Дороги разобрали. Живешь в одном месте, работать можешь везде! У богатых Квартиры сделаны так, что комнаты находятся в разных места и при этом не тол ко Земли!!! И они так же легко туда порождают, как и обычные люди в их комроты проходя в дверном проеме. :)
All i was looking for was some decent fast food sci-fi and this still managed to massively disappoint. Hamilton gives us a universe that has: - infinite energy - infinite food - infinite (physical) ressources - instant (ftl) travel via portals to anywhere a portal has been placed Sounds like a proper utopia, right? Except that society is mostly a universal surveillance society ruled by corporate overlords and corrupt governments with zero rule of law. That could still be an interesting premise and kinda cyberpunk. The problem is that it all falls flat in the way it's presented and with how the story is structured. We get to read in excruciating detail about our protagonists and how they're willing to employ torture, kill, blackmail and threaten anyone that gets in the way of their goal, even if the goal is something as mundane as finding the boyfriend of a company ceo's daughter. Oh, and there's extra-legal 'rendition' too. Which everyone loves because it's so convenient. The cherry on top is that the YA future sections of the book call these guys the "saints". This all feels super tone-deaf to me and i didn't enjoy the backstories at all. If the hook sounds interesting to someone reading this story, but the going gets kinda rough, i'd recommend to just read the first and last two chapters of the book. Cuz the rest sucked.