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3	Peter F. Hamilton (born 2 March 1960) is a British science fiction writer most famous for his ''Literature/TheNightsDawnTrilogy''. The last book in his ''Literature/VoidTrilogy'' following up the ''Literature/CommonwealthSaga'', ''The Evolutionary Void'', was released in September 2010.
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5	Hamilton is known for blending SpaceOpera with hard science-fiction, often combined with the bizarre. For example, his ''Night's Dawn'' trilogy is a SpaceOpera epic that takes a SpaceIsAnOcean approach that is pretty diamond hard on the scale, and throws in a plague of the souls of the returning dead.
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7	His Commonwealth Saga, on the other hand, takes the unusual approach of an interstellar PortalNetwork...based on railway travel: taking a train from a station on one planet and arriving at a station on another. Spaceships don't come into play until seriously long distances need to be covered. Oh, and then there's the unstoppable galactic-scale AlienInvasion taking out dozens of star systems at a time.
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9	The Void Trilogy is the latest series, taking place in the same continuity as the Commonwealth Saga, thousands of years later. The black hole at the center of the Milky Way is discovered to be an "artificial universe", the Void, that is gradually consuming the galaxy to fuel the outlandish MindOverMatter powers of its denizens. A major religious cult in the Commonwealth decides to pilgrimage into the Void, an action which might trigger an expansion that could destroy the galaxy. Oh, and a MessianicArchetype can dream the life of Edeard, one of the humans that lived in the Void hundreds of years prior, and his sharing of these dreams are the foundation of his cult.
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11	Be warned, though: almost everything he writes is a DoorStopper SpaceOpera with numerous characters, and in recent years this has only gotten more pronounced. It is also worth noting that almost ''everything'' he has written has been extremely well received.
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15	!!Books by Peter F. Hamilton:
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17	* ''Literature/GregMandelTrilogy'':
18	** ''Mindstar Rising''
19	** ''A Quantum Murder''
20	** ''The Nano Flower''
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22	* ''Confederation Universe''
23	** ''Literature/TheNightsDawnTrilogy''
24	*** ''The Reality Dysfunction''
25	*** ''The Neutronium Alchemist''
26	*** ''The Naked God''
27	** ''Others in the Confederation Universe''
28	*** ''A Second Chance at Eden''
29	*** ''[[AllThereInTheManual The Confederation Handbook]]''
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31	* ''Commonwealth Universe''
32	** ''Misspent Youth''
33	** ''[[{{Literature/CommonwealthSaga}} The Commonwealth Saga]]''
34	*** ''Literature/PandorasStar''
35	*** ''Literature/JudasUnchained''
36	** ''[[Literature/{{Void Trilogy}} The Void Trilogy]]''
37	*** ''The Dreaming Void''
38	*** ''The Temporal Void''
39	*** ''The Evolutionary Void''
40	** ''The Chronicle of the Fallers''
41	*** ''The Abyss Beyond Dreams''
42	*** ''A Night Without Stars''
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44	* ''Salvation Sequence Trilogy''
45	** ''Salvation''
46	** ''Salvation Lost''
47	** ''The Saints of Salvation''
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49	* ''Literature/FallenDragon''
50	* ''Great North Road''

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