{"id":6683,"date":"2019-10-16T16:14:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T20:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/?p=6683"},"modified":"2019-10-16T16:14:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T20:14:13","slug":"salvation-by-peter-f-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/book-review\/salvation-by-peter-f-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Salvation <\/strong>by <em>Peter F. Hamilton<\/em> is a science fiction novel set in a far flung time when alien contact has helped dynamically improve the level of our technology. This is a huge novel with over 550 pages and a huge undertaking as the author follows the lives of numerous people living both across the globe and the galaxy \u00a0The novel is really more of a series of short stories all moving within the same shared universe and spanning numerous decades.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <img class=\" size-full wp-image-4465 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/michaeldgriffiths.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/10\/salvation-by-peter-f.-hamilton-1.jpg?w=450\" alt=\"Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton 1\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Genre: \u00a0Science Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Publisher: Del Ray<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Released: 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stars:\u00a0 3.5 Stars<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reviewer: Michael D. Griffiths<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The novel lets us view a dozen trails moving through the lives of creatures both human and non. The stories sometimes interweave, but others pursue loose tangents. Over time the humans begin to discover there is a greater threat \u00a0than any of them would have imagined. Seemingly unrelated incidents start to expose clues which could lead to something which may affect our species forever.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the concepts and updated uses of computer and bio tech were inventive, but believable. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if some of Hamilton\u2019s predictions prove correct.<\/p>\n<p>Downsides for me include, as soon as I started to like a character they would disappear from the book for two hundred pages. Also threads were built just to be left unfinished other than how they fit into a subtle decades spanning arc. I also felt side characters were given a stage, but I hadn\u2019t developed enough of an interest in them to want to explore more. I had the feeling the author thought we wanted to see any aspect of this world no matter how off base from what we were already following.<\/p>\n<p>It was a sweeping world the reader explores. One gets a wide vision of how the humans evolve between their tech and the additions learned from other bizarre species. The characters were smart and efficient. This is a giant undertaking and will impress the lovers of Science Fiction lucky enough to read it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Salvation-Novel-Sequence-Book-ebook\/dp\/B07837SGSY\/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Salvation+by+Peter+F.+Hamilton&amp;qid=1571163898&amp;sr=8-2\">Learn More Here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Skinjumpers-Michael-D-Griffiths\/dp\/0983170959\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=skinjumpers&amp;qid=1571164133&amp;sr=8-1\">Grab a little of my fiction here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton is a science fiction novel set in a far flung time when alien contact has helped dynamically improve the level of our technology. This is a huge novel with over 550 pages and a huge undertaking as the author follows the lives of numerous people &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,588,36],"tags":[1093,1380,1091,1094],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6693,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683\/revisions\/6693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}