The Saints of Salvation

Salvation Sequence Series, Book 3

By: Peter F. Hamilton

Narrated by: John Lee

With refreshing determination and hopeful grit, humanity activates a bold endgame against an alien invasion in the finale of a series heralded as "a modern classic" (Stephen Baxter) from "one of the finest writers the genre has produced" (Gareth L. Powell).

Humanity is struggling to hold out against a hostile takeover by an alien race that claims to be on a religious mission to bring all sentient life to its God at the End of Time. But while billions of cocooned humans fill the holds of the Olyix's deadly arkships, humankind is playing an even longer game than the aliens may have anticipated. From an ultra-secret spy mission to one of the grandest battles ever seen, no strategy is off the table. Will a plan millennia in the making finally be enough to defeat this seemingly unstoppable enemy? And what secrets are the Olyix truly hiding in their most zealously protected stronghold?

With his trademark optimism about humanity's tenacity and capacity for greatness, Peter F. Hamilton wraps up this brilliant saga with a bang - and reminds us why freedom of choice is the most important freedom there is.

©2020 Peter F. Hamilton (P)2020 Tantor

A long whirling ride through deep, wild sci-fi!

I might be new to the "Space Opera" genre, but I'm impressed. I think without calling it as much the Three Body Problem / Remembrance of Earth's Past series was probably my introduction to the concept without knowing how rich of a genre this type of narrative could invite. There were moments where I found myself comparing it to Cixin Lui's way of describing apocalyptic battles in clearly defined near real concepts of science fiction; but I now see that what Peter F. Hamilton is doing in this case is beyond the scope of hard science fiction.

But that's a good thing in reality... the two trilogies compliment one another and I find them to be both enriching and discomforting. Actually I think Peter F. Hamilton's perspective is a bit less coherent but actually a little bit more adventurous a sort of page turning highly intelligent perspective on melodrama .Where I find Cixin Lui's perspective to be a more cogent, cold but slightly more believable scenario... even though they're obviously both based on wildly imaginative perspectives that absolutely no one can be compelled to perceive as what will actually happen in the future.

This Book Is awesome... but it's rated R and I mean that by saying that it's contradictions between approaching the topic of gender and almost a pornographic perspective on human sexuality is indulgent but actually understandable when you watch the whole plot play out... it's oddly darkly realistic.

The narration by John Lee is a very compelling and I don't know why some of the reviews seem to imply they're shallow disconnected stories: that's just weak reading or listening: it's actually a probable genre methodology that I would also imagine being useful from both a publishers "make them stay & to keep up reading/listening ..."stick around for a long time" strategy... as well as the back and forth perspective of how the reader learns from one and then the other perspective of the characters of the cumulative knowledge they both garner while in the midst of the ever-building crescendo of the storyline.

I found myself on more than one occasion especially during this final episode of the trilogy shouting aloud or whacking the steering wheel thinking "oh my God that's really happened!" so that's obviously a good sign of some very compelling writing.

You should definitely try to get through all 50 plus hours of these three books if you have the time over a few weeks or months; it's a good ride...really it's something I enjoy a great deal.

Problems with recording

Audio glitch at audio edits, lost words, etc. sounded like book was skipping around, but it wasn’t

Still great story, great narrator/reader

Loose ending

As a story based on a universe of species and religious differences between races over millions
Of years of unending war, for me this story ending
Merely alluded to what would happen next without
Exploring them further.
Questions remained.

hamiltons best

it's good. if u liked Pandora's Star and pushing ice you'll like this series.

Weird aliens, advanced humans, bonkers technology

PF Hamilton does it again. It gets a little confusing near the end but he's juggling all these weird timelines resulting from relativistic space travel. Most SF authors don't even try.

another great story. my 10th book by Peter F. H.

love it, another great book, and trilogy. cant wait for the next book. love it

Back to form and beyond!

This is an excellent series, the first book is a bit different style, sci-fi who done it. Then it builds from there into massive best of space opera where you really care about the characters and are riding the edge of your seat many times. Cheers.

Brilliant!

So BIG! What an amazing, well crafted adventure across the eons! Particularly enjoyed the vision of what could be…

Great Novel

Thought it qas a great story, though wish it had been a tad longer

Like the length of the next book it obviously sets up for :)

Very plausible answer to the Fermi question

This story a very much like the religious and political fanatisms that inflict our society from time to time. So if such societal insanity has been proven by our own historical examples; then it is a logic guess to what happens to young emerging civilizations. Same can be said for another civilization based on AI( Mr.Renolds Revelation Space. Series. ) nobody yet has come to terms with our reality of being observed by extraterrestrial beings demonstrating a technology 400 to at least 1000 plus ahead of us. Like I do not care if they like to watch, or are totally noncomunicative. With us. There must be a good reason. If they have a law about exposing them selves to a lower less advanced species that would screw up their development, sorry too late guys. So they must be waiting for us to develop a real AI. At which time it can be taken over so to control us better. An invasion. Bob Parabicoli