A bit late, but I guess my only reader is me, so who cares :p
The second and last book in the story started by Pandora’s Star, this is a very good book.
The plotlines which had divided in Pandora’s Star are starting to converge, the dialogue interesting and the characters intriguing. Overall the author has done a very fine job.
Synopsis:
In the aftermath of the initial attack launched by the prime entity known as MorningLightMountain, parts of the leadership of the Commonwealth realizes that the Guardians of Selfhood must have been right. The alien known as the StarFlier exists, and it appears to be guiding the Commonwealth and MorningLightMountain to a war of mutual extinction.
Alliances unthinkable before the attack is formed between the Guardians and a small group of the Commonwealth leadership. The Sheldon family have their own starship and weapons program unknown to the rest of the Commonwealth, and it might just be the salvation of mankind. But can they stop the StarFlier in time?
The society in this book reminds me of the Hyperion series and the initial interplanetary society based on a different gate principle. But unlike Hyperion, society has not yet come to a stall, it is still vibrant, still expanding, and the base of the expansion is the virtual immortality granted to mankind through rejuvenation and the growing of clones based on memory implants taken from the dead.
Still, such a society cannot grow forever. Would it turn into the stale, dying society pictured in the two first books of the Hyperion series when they run out of planets to colonize?
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