Pandora's Star

AT THE EDGE OF A GALAXY SOMETHING AWAKENS - AND IT'S COMING FOR US Earth AD 2329: Humanity has colonized over four hundred planets, all interlinked by wormholes. For the first time in mankind's history, there is peace. Then a star over a thousand light-years away vanishes, imprisoned inside a force field of immense size. Only a faster-than-light starship, captained by ex-NASA astronaut Wilson Kime, can travel that distance in time to investigate. But what if there was a good reason for sealing off an entire star system? Getting in could prove easier than the worst possible outcome - something else getting out. Praise for the Commonwealth Saga 'The best book Hamilton has written in years' Guardian 'Anyone who begins this won't be able to put it down' Publishers Weekly 'Massively bloody action sequences, betrayals galore, and near-miraculous last-minute escapes . . . Highly recommended' Starburst

Peter F. Hamilton was born in Rutland in 1960. He began writing in 1987, and sold his first short story to FEAR Magazine in 1988. He has written many bestselling novels, including the Greg Mandel series, the Night's Dawn trilogy, the Commonwealth Saga, the Void trilogy, the Chronicle of the Fallers and the Salvation Sequence, as well as short-story collections and several standalone titles, including Fallen Dragon and Great North Road.