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Judas Unchained
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780345461674
ISBN: 0345461673
Label: Del Rey
Manufacturer: Del Rey
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1024
Publication Date: March 27, 2007
Publisher: Del Rey
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Studio: Del Rey
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Editorial Review:
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, only to inadvertently unleash a predatory alien species that turned on its liberators, striking hard, fast, and utterly without mercy. The Prime are the Commonwealth’s worst nightmare. Coexistence is impossible with the technologically advanced aliens, who are genetically hardwired to exterminate all other forms of life. Twenty-three planets have already fallen to the invaders, with casualties in the hundreds of millions. And no one knows when or where the genocidal Prime will strike next.Nor are the Prime the only threat. For more than a hundred years, a shadowy cult, the Guardians of Selfhood, has warned that an alien with mind-control abilities impossible to detect or resist–the Starflyer–has secretly infiltrated the Commonwealth. Branded as terrorists, the Guardians and their leader, Bradley Johansson, have been hunted by relentless investigator Paula Myo. But now evidence suggests that the Guardians were right all along, and that the Starflyer has placed agents in vital posts throughout the Commonwealth–agents who are now sabotaging the war effort. Is the Starflyer an ally of the Prime, or has it orchestrated a fight to the death between the two species for its own advantage?Caught between two deadly enemies, one a brutal invader striking from without, the other a remorseless cancer killing from within, the fractious Commonwealth must unite as never before.This will be humanity’s finest hour–or its last gasp.
From the Hardcover edition.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Another rollicking space opera from Hamilton
Hamilton's got a real knack for writing expansive, compelling sci-fi epics, and along with the initial "Pandora's Star", this is another great read.
Rating:  - Immensely satisfying sequel and conclusion
_Judas Unchained_ by Peter F. Hamilton is the exciting, action-packed sequel to his earlier work _Pandora's Star_, a book that completes this two-part series. I found it every bit as good as the first installment and found this novel a page-turner to the very end. There are even bigger battles and more intrigue than the first book and there are many twists, turns, and surprises.
Hamilton continued with his huge cast of characters in _Judas Unchained_, helpfully listing these individuals ... Read More
Rating: - Pandora's Star plus Judas Unchained is 2000 pages of sci-fi adventure!
Judas Unchained, by Peter Hamilton, is part two of a two part epic beginning with Pandora's Star. And it really is part two. Pandora's Star without Judas Unchained is half a story, and vice versa. These books don't stand alone.
The general theme is as follows. Because of their ability to control the formation and location of wormholes, humans have expanded throughout the galaxy. They've encountered a few sentient alien species, but none that were particularly harmful to human interests. ... Read More
Rating:  - Too much of an OK thing.
OMG, what went wrong? After reading PANDORAS STAR, which I loved (overlooking the excessive exposition), I looked forward to the follow up in JUDAS UNCHAINED, but what I found was a long suffering, boring book. Hamilton goes on and on and on and on about the naval security force investigation that turns this non-science fiction into a tired police story. If I wanted to read a mystery I would have bought a mystery. I wanted science fiction that stimulated my imagination. This didn't do it.
After 900 pages ... Read More
Rating:  - well written, entertaining, but flawed
Actually, I am a fan of Peter Hamilton's writing, but found too many technical and conceptual flaws in this series. In Pandora's Star, the idea of transporting a neutron star into the center of a gas giant is certainly a very novel idea until you realize that the gas giant would then probably mass more than the entire solar system, which would then accrete into one giant glob which wouldn't be cool for all the folks trying to live there.
Unfortunately, Peter appears to be pandering to black folks,with his ... Read More
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