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Book Review of Emergence (Night's Dawn: Reality Dysfunction, Bk 1)

Emergence (Night's Dawn: Reality Dysfunction, Bk 1)
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Series: Reality Dysfunction Series
From Our Editors
This is galaxy-spanning, larger-than-life space opera -- with a very odd complication that could be loosely classified as, well, demons from hell. Sounds odd at best, but Hamilton pulls it off with aplomb. Terrific reading; more substance than you might expect from the cover, but not one whit less fun.
Michelle West

From The Critics
Locus
This series is taking on one of SF's (and maybe all of literature's) primal jobs:the creation of a world with the scale and complexity of the real one.

Customer Reviews
Dothic Plague 07/15/2004
Awsome
I've read the entire series, twice. I absolutely love it. Hamilton goes into just enough technological detail to be convincing, but stops before making it boring. The characters are wonderful and vivid. The best part of the book is Hamilton's attention to sociology. Different people have different mindsets, and different species, well they don't make much sense sometimes (to us). Also an interesting concept of life-after-death. A must read for lovers of sci-fi and phylosophy.