Exodus: The Archimedes Engine

Exodus: The Archimedes Engine, Book 1

De: Peter F. Hamilton

Narrado por: John Lee

Explore EXODUS, a new sci-fi action-adventure RPG coming soon from Archetype Entertainment featured in this epic novel from legendary author Peter F. Hamilton.

Forty thousand years ago, humanity fled a dying Earth. Traveling in massive arkships, these brave pioneers spread out across the galaxy to find a new home. After traveling thousands of light-years, one fleet of arkships arrived at Centauri, a dense cluster of stars with a vast array of potentially habitable planets. The survivors of Earth signaled to the remaining arkships that humanity had finally found its new home among the stars.

Thousands of years later, the Centauri Cluster has flourished. The original settlers have evolved into advanced beings known as Celestials and divided themselves into powerful Dominions. One of the most influential is that of the Crown Celestials, an alliance of five great houses that controls vast areas of Centauri. As arkships continue to arrive, the remaining humans and their descendants must fight for survival against overwhelming odds or be forced into serving the Crown Dominion.

Among those yearning for a better life is Finn, for whom Earth is not a memory but merely a footnote from humanity’s ancient history. Born on one of the Crown Dominion worlds, Finn has known nothing but the repressive rule of the Celestials, though he dreams of the possibility of boundless space beyond his home.

When another arkship from Earth, previously thought lost, unexpectedly arrives, Finn sees his chance to embrace a greater destiny and become a Traveler—one of a group of brave heroes dedicated to ensuring humanity’s future by journeying into the vast unknown of distant space.

©2024 Peter F. Hamilton (P)2024 Random House Audio

Hamilton at his best

Loved this one. Can’t wait for the next installment. Lots of high energy and drama. Hamilton is a master of huge doses of deep tech with excellent storytelling and plot weaving.

worldbuilding

The way Peter makes you inhabit the world is enjoyable. And in the end big thing happen as well.

Gripping story line.

The story draws you in and holds you. The plot is dramatic and characters are compelling.

The complexity of the story and the characters

Not John Lee best performance. Sometimes it was hard to distinguish which character was talking because they sounded a little too similar.

Quite good

You have to skip the first hour or so of the book. It contains a lot of fluff, information dumps, and meaningless descriptions. The names and made-up words in the first hour could all be Greek for as much as I understood anything. I almost returned the book, but when I got past that, the story was quite good. The characters were well fleshed out and the dialog was well written. im looking forward to the next one.

Good but drawn out

Great read. There’s enough of an interesting plot. Bit of a lag in the action as it turns from action to political intrigue, which in my opinion goes on way too long.

A new Universe

Get Ready for a wild adventure in the far future. A super story read by a brilliant narrator. The start of a new series. Wow

You have never read a book like this.

Dense. Intellectual. & Honest.

A serious masterclass in worldbuilding.

Murder Mystery,
political thriller.
Action Adventure.
High Fantasy.
Grandiose Sci-fi.
ALL woven together in an attractive and comfortable fashion.

If I need to critique anything it’s that the dialogue was at points repetitive. **asterias as$…**
But I mean repeat yourself as much as you want.
The world building the pacing the character development all god tier.

Absolutely solid believable universe. Then confidently and logically breaking what I thought was possible to push the story forward.

I continually thought to my self “oh wow I never realized that was possible”

i work in aerospace and really enjoyed the accurate terminology used to describe spacecraft
I’ll also note the use of extremely thoughtful and accurate scientific information.

^^^Looking at that B. R. U. T. A. L. Fusion Drive scene good lord… ^^^

The work was amazing.
Perfectly Dense. It covered a ton of ground. I wish it kept going.

Only reason it’s not a 10/10 is that I got lost occasionally. Misplacing characters places. Etc. I think I could’ve been more attentive.

Really REALLY looking forward to the next book.

Fascinating worlds, unique sci-fi elements, character growth and some regress, lol

Can't wait for the next book in the series. You authors and your suspenseful cliff hangers make it hard to shut my brain off at night.

Most excellent

Deep sci fi. Love it. So glad this is my first Peter f Hamilton book. Excited to dive into this author.