Salvation

Salvation Sequence, Book 1

By: Peter F. Hamilton

Narrated by: John Lee

In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. Cutting-edge technology of linked jump gates has rendered most forms of transportation - including starships - virtually obsolete. Every place on Earth, every distant planet humankind has settled, is now merely a step away from any other. And all seems wonderful - until a crashed alien spaceship of unknown origin is found on a newly located world 89 light-years from Earth, carrying a cargo as strange as it is horrifying. To assess the potential of the threat a high-powered team is dispatched to investigate. But one of them may not be all they seem....

Bursting with tension and big ideas, Salvation is the first book of an all-new series that highlights the inventiveness of an author at the top of his game.

©2018 Peter F. Hamilton (P)2018 Tantor

Critic reviews

“Peter F. Hamilton smashes through the crazy battlefield of space opera like a giant all-conquering war-robot. His newest is loud, proud, and beyond epic. Accept no substitutes, this is the real deal. You need Salvation, my friend.” (Ian McDonald, author of the Luna series)

give it a chance

hard to get into give 2 to three chapters before judging because once the ball gets rolling its twist and turns on every page might take 2 reads for me to fully understand because it is a little hard to follow

Excellent

I love the PFH & JLee duo.. it is always good, but this was a breath of fresh air after listening to sci fi & fantasy for a few years waiting for the next duo combo special. This did not dissapoint, I already purchased 2nd novel,while not even half way thru the first.. Buy,Play,Listen,Intake & Enjoy another PFH&JLee masterpiece

This one disappointed me

I have loved other books by Peter F Hamilton. This one had such a complicated storyline that it was hard for me to follow it and keep straight what was going on.

John Lee is a great narrator, whom I have loved in other performances. He did not work well for me here. There are too many different characters and too many different voices for me to tell them apart with his narration. I think John the probably works best with a very small cast of characters.

Great book ruined by a terrible reading.

Every word is over enuciated and the characters sound so much alike you can't tell who is speaking in some passages. It sounds like bad noir. The book itself is great.

PFH knocks it out of the park again.

...which is a neat trick for a cricketer. The characters are gear and the ooh-ahh sci-fi is extremely compelling.

best characters Ive ever read about

I love this series. the characters are phenomenal and John Lee brings them to life like no one else could. I highly recommend this book. you wont be disappointed.

great sci-fi title

this is a really good book with some awesome concepts . The only thing that bugs me a little is the book does get kind of hard to follow. in all honesty that could be just me but I did find some things that just made it a little confusing at times. but as far as the technology concepts and characters go it doesn't disappoint with a good variety of characters and an awesome spread of well described locations. definitely worth the read I just hate that I have to wait for the next book

A bit darker

A good representation of Peter Hamiltons writing. This story has a darker outlook of the galaxy with good build up sprinkled with aspects of a detective novel. A book that gets better on the second read through.

Standard awesome from PFH

Come on and hurry it up with the next book!!!! I am hungry for more.

Tedious despite great parts - the old Hamilton problem for me

Minor spoilers ahead.
This somewhat reminded me of my experience with the first book of The Reality Disfunction. Only worse.
While imagination and action description is stellar, the book drags out its world building with too many characters and too many meandering plotlines that dont seem to go anywhere.

This book was worse for me in that regard that there isnt even a main character. There are tons of characters in different timelines, none of them developed to a point where they get interesting - because there are so bloody many of them! And good Mr. Lee is contorting himself to deliver all the worlds’ accents in order to separate characters in scenes with what feels like a dozen people talking over each other.

In addition to the character overload there are multiple plotlines that jump around in time - in their separate, different timelines. Sometimes even switching narrative perspective. It is unclear how all of that connects up until an almost deus ex machina moment very far down the line.
This is even more confusing in the audio format as there is less sense of chapter location.

The imagination behind the world is great and whenever this comes through the book shines with what made me a Hamilton fan way back. Action scenes are few but they have that snappy, gripping pace that I find Hamilton does like none other in Scfi.

But there is a lot of slog to get to the good parts.