The Reality Dysfunction (The Night's Dawn Trilogy) - Hardcover

Hamilton, Peter F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333634276 ISBN 13: 9780333634271

Publisher: Macmillan, 1996

Synopsis

This story encompasses 800 worlds, vast trading fleets of biological space-craft, alien races, technology, gene-technology that has outstripped evolution and a group of characters caught up in humanity's fight for survival in the 26th century.

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From the Inside Flap

For humans, life in the twenty-seventh century has become secure and easy. The lightbarrier has been broken. Hundreds of worlds have been colonized. Genetic engineering has increased life-expectancy and banished disease. The Confederation Navy maintains the peace between humanity’s rich and diverse cultures. It is the greatest era in history.All this is observed by a Ly-cilph, one of an ancient incorporial alien species who travel the galaxy gathering information. On Lalonde, a newly settled world, its interest in a criminal’s profane ritual murder becomes a little too involved. What was once regarded as myth is unwittingly set free, allowing the heart of every human nightmare to flourish and expand. Technology is powerless against it. There is no place it cannot reach. It is as merciless as it is relentless.As the rest of the Confederation becomes aware of the horrific force which is destined to consume entire worlds, a name emerges from the chaos and terror engulfing Lalonde: The Reality Dysfunction.

About the Author

Peter F. Hamilton was born in Rutland, England in 1960. He began writing in 1987, and sold his first short story to Fear magazine in 1988. He has also been published in Interzone and the In Dreams and New Worlds anthologies, and several small press publications. His first novel was Mindstar Rising, published in 1993, and he has been steadily productive since then. Peter lives near Rutland Water with his wife and two children.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333634276
• ISBN 13: 9780333634271
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1