Peter F. Hamilton's superbly imagined, cunningly plotted interstellar adventures are conceived on a staggeringly epic scale and filled with fully realized human and alien characters as complex as they are engaging. No mere world builder, Hamilton creates entire universes-and he does so with irresistible flair and intelligence. His previous novel, the acclaimed Pandora's Star, introduced the Intersolar Commonwealth, a star-spanning civilization of the twenty-fourth century. Robust, peaceful, and confident, the Commonwealth dispatched a ship to investigate the mystery of a disappearing star,...

In a future where corporations have their own militaries, a platoon is sent to the colony where the fabled Fallen Dragon resides. Protected by the colonists, the alien life form becomes the catalyst of an interstellar war.

Die Menschheit tritt ihrem ultimativen Feind gegenüber ...