Judas Unchained
by Peter F. Hamilton
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Author: Peter F. HamiltonEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-03-27
ISBN: 0345461673
Number of pages: 1024
Publisher: Del Rey
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- ISBN13: 9780345461674
- Condition: New
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Book Review: "Walk These Worlds with Me. . ."
Summary: 5 Stars
... or: You Should Never Put Assassins in the Refrigerator!
I'd got all the way through "Pandora's Star," and a third of the way through Peter F. Hamilton's extraordinary sequel (well, part 2 really), "Judas Unchained," before I finally resolved the issue that had long been bothering me--especially since "Pandora" had ended with a literal cliffhanger: how far into his cheek had the author put his tongue? And then I reached the scene where an assassin hides in a fridge, and suddenly I saw. Pretty far indeed.
Anyway, "Judas," however slyly, sweeps along crisply in the same multiple POV manner as its predecessor (think C. J. Cherryh w/o, thankfully, the internal monologues), with nearly all of the characters from the first volume intact and continuing on: Ozzie's still on his fantasy quest; Paula Myo is still doing her dogged police procedural thing; Mellanie Rescorai is still providing aid and comfort in her various ways; the Guardians of Justice continue to do battle with the mysterious Starflyer, which more and more folks are starting to believe in; and steadfast, stubborn, priggish Mark Vernon and his ickypoo family (twitting Kim Stanley Robinson perhaps), complete with dog, continue to pop up and annoy. (That has to be the point--Mr. Hamilton appears far too clever to have expected them to do anything but annoy.) And, of course, the intrepid heroes of the Confederation are still trying to figure out how to defeat the Primes (eek! hive mind!! Visit them at MorningLightMountain.com), and the politicians are still squabbling and conspiring.
The author, who like the late architect Philip Johnson "steals from everybody," continues to mix his genres well--heroic fantasy quests mix with space opera, spying, and political maneuvering, and provocative high-tech aspects. In Mr. Hamilton's conception, people can take trains (yes, trains!) through wormholes between the stars; they can be rebirthed; they can store their memories. You've seen all that before, but not handled nearly so well as here.
And then, of all things, the grand finale narrows down to an A story and a B story, with the A story turning into a chase snatched from the heart of a western movie with the good guys finding a way out of the box canyon and then riding out to head the bad guys off at the pass, while in the B story there's a race to see if the immotile hive mind can be smacked upside da haid without the good guys having to nuke the entire planet (and maybe eventually quite a bit of the galaxy's store of planets) out from under him. Good luck with THAT.
And good luck to you, dear readers.
Great thrills, great fun, and yes, it's ok to chuckle.
Notes and asides: Unlike volume 1, there's a list of characters this time (and very welcome, although the advice here is not to consult it until necessary as it manages to tip off some of the plot--don't ask!). Oh, and for grammar freaks--this time out, the publisher has supplied the author with a copyeditor who knows when to use a comma and when to use a period or semicolon--not the author's strongest point. Yeah, there's sex. C'mon, folks, this is the 21st century.
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