Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Evolutionary Void
    The Evolutionary Void
    The Evolutionary Void
    Audiobook24 hours

    The Evolutionary Void

    Written by Peter F. Hamilton

    Narrated by John Lee

    4.5/5

    ()

    About this audiobook

    An innovator praised as one of the inventors of "the new space opera," Peter F. Hamilton has also been hailed as the heir of such golden-age giants as Heinlein and Asimov. His star-spanning sagas are distinguished by deft plotting, engaging characters, provocative explorations of science and society, and soaring imaginative reach. Now, in one of the most eagerly anticipated offerings of the year, Hamilton brings his acclaimed Void trilogy to a stunning close.

    Exposed as the Second Dreamer, Araminta has become the target of a galaxywide search by government agent Paula Myo and the psychopath known as the Cat, along with others equally determined to prevent-or facilitate-the pilgrimage of the Living Dream cult into the heart of the Void. An indestructible microuniverse, the Void may contain paradise, as the cultists believe, but it is also a deadly threat. For the miraculous reality that exists inside its boundaries demands energy-energy drawn from everything outside those boundaries: from planets, stars, galaxies...from everything that lives.

    Meanwhile, the parallel story of Edeard, the Waterwalker-as told through a series of addictive dreams communicated to the gaiasphere via Inigo, the First Dreamer-continues to unfold. But now the inspirational tale of this idealistic young man takes a darker and more troubling turn as he finds himself faced with powerful new enemies-and temptations more powerful still.

    With time running out, a repentant Inigo must decide whether to release Edeard's final dream: a dream whose message is scarcely less dangerous than the pilgrimage promises to be. And Araminta must choose whether to run from her unwanted responsibilities or face them down, with no guarantee of success or survival. But all these choices may be for naught if the monomaniacal Ilanthe, leader of the breakaway Accelerator Faction, is able to enter the Void. For it is not paradise she seeks there, but dominion.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 14, 2010
    ISBN9781400181841
    The Evolutionary Void
    Author

    Peter F. Hamilton

    Peter F. Hamilton was born in Rutland in 1960 and still lives nearby. He began writing in 1987, and sold his first short story to Fear magazine in 1988. He has written many bestselling novels, including the Greg Mandel series, the Night's Dawn trilogy, the Commonwealth Saga, the Void trilogy, short-story collections and several standalone novels including Fallen Dragon and Great North Road.

    More audiobooks from Peter F. Hamilton

    Related to The Evolutionary Void

    Related audiobooks

    Science Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Extraterrestrial

      Dec 1, 2019

      Extraterrestrial
      7 min read

    • Article

      Farewell from Cassini

      Sep 18, 2017

      If you're reading this message, there's no need to burn it. For it and I have already been burned beyond recognition. It was good knowing you and a great trip while it lasted. I danced through the sparkling rings of you earthlings' neighboring planet

      3 min read

    • Article

      In Search Of ...

      Apr 1, 2019

      Fifteen-year-old Tay lives on Rannoch, a distant planet covered with water, where undersea pods or living chambers provide life support for up to three people—usually two adults and one child. Tay learns that her parents are expecting another child a

      8 min read

    • Article

      Rock Hard

      Sep 10, 2020

      Rock Hard
      7 min read

    • Article

      Mike Golding

      Aug 8, 2019

      Ocean phosphorescence is the naturally occurring (green) light created by certain algae blooms when they are jostled or excited. The effect causes everything passing through the water to be outlined in a glowing light. Millions upon millions of algae

      3 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      May 18, 2023

      CONTACT US BY POST: PO BOX 1200, WHITSTABLE CT1 9RH, OR E-MAIL SIEVEKING@FORTEANTIMES.COM PLEASE PROVIDE US WITH YOUR POSTAL ADDRESS With reference to his article on Nazi UFOs [FT430:44-49], I would be curious to know what evidence SDTucker has for s

      12 min read

    • Article

      We Are All Made Of Stars

      Oct 7, 2022

      We Are All Made Of Stars
      27 min read

    • Article

      In Search Of . . .

      Feb 1, 2019

      In Search Of . . .
      7 min read

    • Article

      Buried in the Sky: Looking up to the Sky, a Young Astronomer Finds Truths at Her Feet.: Looking up to the sky, a young astronomer finds truths at her feet.

      Jul 11, 2013

      Our group of astronomers took in the naked mountains by the sea. We had flown into the La Serena airport at noon, and found a parched landscape. What sparse vegetation there was survived by drinking coastal fog. Sleeping dogs melted in the sun and do

      12 min read

    • Article

      The Outer Worlds

      Aug 27, 2019

      The Outer Worlds
      3 min read

    • Article

      Too Much Space

      Mar 17, 2021

      Too Much Space
      5 min read

    • Article

      Solar Flair

      Jul 16, 2019

      Solar Flair
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Seal Of Approval

      Dec 2, 2020

      The Seal Of Approval
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Moon Is Full of Money

      Jul 18, 2019

      I was slung in my favorite deck chair, drink in hand, having a gawk at the night sky. Andromeda, Pisces ... I trawled the constellations, mind abandoned, still aware in some curve at the back of my brain that the world is coming apart at the seams an

      14 min read

    • Article

      The Moon Is Full of Money

      Sep 7, 2017

      I was slung in my favorite deck chair, drink in hand, having a gawk at the night sky. Andromeda, Pisces ... I trawled the constellations, mind abandoned, still aware in some curve at the back of my brain that the world is coming apart at the seams an

      14 min read

    • Article

      Is The Search For Dark Matter An Act Of Faith?

      Oct 10, 2019

      The young physicist sits at his computer, watching for signals from Cygnus. His name is Christopher Toth, and his white lab coat is too big for him. Christopher speaks with calm clarity. His manner is modest, gracefully gentle, and I wonder if this c

      8 min read

    • Article

      Revisiting The Mysterious World Of Arthur C Clarke

      Sep 9, 2021

      Over the course of 13 short episodes first broadcast in 1980, The Mysterious World of Arthur C Clarke took teatime viewers of ITV through the case files of the celebrated science fiction writer – also solemnly identified as the “inventor of the commu

      13 min read

    • Article

      Guide To The GALAXY

      May 29, 2020

      Guide To The GALAXY
      7 min read

    • Article

      Muse News

      Apr 1, 2024

      Muse News
      3 min read

    • Article

      Weird World Ahoy there!

      Jul 13, 2023

      Weird World Ahoy there!
      3 min read

    • Article

      World’s Largest

      Dec 12, 2023

      World’s Largest
      7 min read

    • Article

      Paradox Formation

      May 25, 2017

      Paradox Formation
      11 min read

    • Article

      The Whale Who Will Come Soon

      Sep 8, 2021

      The beachfront narrows to an ocherous ribbon, belted by blue, above and below. After a while, a handful of shearwaters appear in the air above the Cat Balou. The birds flash around us; like knife-thrower tricks at a circus. Diving through the water,

      8 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Evolutionary Void

    4.5/5

    39 ratings10 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 3/5
      Yes, if you've read the other books in this series, you will want to read this. (That would be, five, four, or two books depending on how you want to split them.) Yes, the Void series, if you haven't started it yet, is worth the time as a whole.Hamilton delivers in fusing, thematically and plotwise, the worlds inside and outside the Void. All secrets from the earlier books (except, perhaps, the Cat's exact origins) are revealed including some mysteries brought up in this book.Araminta continues her struggle with the Living Dream movement as its putative prophet. The demoralizing vision of Inigio's last dream is revealed. Gore and Delivery Man seek alien technology. Ozzie shows up with his weird girlfriend. Aaron's personality continues to deteriorate until we get a wonderful combat sequence told from the point of view of his emergency automatic personality. The rest of the characters continue their spying, sabotaging, fighting, law enforcing ways. New crises emerge. The fate of the galaxy is still at stake. And we get to meet a very old, very cunning survivor of our time.Most importantly a prime theme of this series - should sentient species evolve by chance or deliberation (and, if so, by what sort of technology) and the spillover effects on those who don't approve of the chosen evolutionary methods or goals -- continues. And not just with the struggle of human factions but the Anomine, an alien race that faced a similar quandary.But, at the end, the Void doesn't completely satisfy.Hamilton, in other series, is a talented writer of exciting, technologically interesting, detailed combat sequences. Here, though, the many space combat sequences, with their talk of force fields and quantumbusters, really aren't very interesting, seem too much like a modern updating of E.E "Doc" Smith's blasters and force fields.Hamilton has often had a supernatural or fantasy flavor to his work - the returned dead from the Night's Dawn trilogy or the dragon in Fallen Dragon. However, this series, with its religion based on dream revelation, Eduard's world of wish fulfillment, and a plot that features several versions of heaven and transcendence, isn't helped by its vague concluding descriptions of the Void and the purpose of its Heart - and the moral and psychological qualities necessary to talk to it.Finally, this is a universe in which some of material of drama is inherently missing. Specifically, death has lost a lot of its sting through computer uploads, the resets possible in Eduard's world, and re-lifing. Hamilton's ending seems too pat, too devoid of any real tragedy or cost paid - particularly when Eduard is allowed to do something, to exploit a feature of the Void, we have been told is a reason to reject that alien menace.
    • 5/5
      Closes off this trilogy nicely. Explains well why the city acts the way that it does.
    • 4/5
      I seem to be hitting a run of reading books that are 3rd in a series before reading the others. Initially I was disconcerted by all of the "new" ideas thrown about in the beginning chapters. Soon enough, though, I was caught up enough in the story to overcome my initial objection. Definitely interested in reading the earlier works in the series.
    • 5/5
      After the dreary and dull part 2 of this trilogy, I was hesitant to read this book. But I shouldn't have been, the dull parts of part 2 (the too numerous dreams of Inigo) were less present in this book. Add some high-tech SF stuff (blowing up moons etc) and some laughter (the Lady, haha), and this book is the best of the trilogy. The only drawback (for me), was that I've read the previous part in May 2009. So after (almost) 2 years I kinda forgot about all the characters and plots. It took me a while before I recognized all the stuff I've forgotten about.
    • 4/5
      Basically like all his books! Grips you by the throat for 99% of its length and then kinda peters out at the end, with half the character arcs ending up essentially unresolved. And it sucks me in every time. The lead-up to the anti-climax is always worth the disappointment.
    • 4/5
      Good conclusion to the series. The first part (3/4) of the book was very entertaining will all the storyline converging finally, but the ending was a bit underwhelming.
    • 5/5
      This is the third and final novel in the Void trilogy which follows up on the author’s Commonwealth Saga, set 1,200 years after the conclusion of the final book in that series, Judas Unchained. While it is not strictly necessary to have read the two books in the Commonwealth Saga, since immortality essentially exists in this future, the books contain many common characters and story threads despite the passage of many centuries. It is, however, necessary to have read the first two books in the Void trilogy, The Dreaming Void and The Temporal Void, as this is a direct continuation of those works.In this Hamilton epic, the Commonwealth has expanded and evolved, circumnavigating the galaxy, discovering many new sentient species and a phenomenon referred to as The Void, a micro-universe, protected by an event horizon. One human has managed to pass into The Void and return, setting off a religious awakening called The Living Dream. The adherents of this religion wish to undertake a mass pilgrimage into the Void, potentially setting off a chain of events which could lead to destruction of the known universe. Mayhem predictably ensues as different human and alien factions position themselves in an attempt at self-preservation and in some cases evolution.In this continuation of the action introduced by The Dreaming Void and The Temporal Void, the author brings together the various story threads for a conclusion to the series. Previous Hamilton works, in my experience, have tended to lose steam and bog down around 2/3 of the way through the story, but this work maintained my interest level through its roughly 1900 pages. I found the ending to be perfectly satisfactory and a fitting conclusion to what is essentially a 5,000 page magnum opus. If you have a couple of months to kill, you could do far worse.
    • 4/5
      Epic conclusion to an epic story.
    • 2/5
      This third and final entry in the Void trilogy resolves as many of the plot threads as I could remember, but really has no other point that I can see. This is hardcore old-fashioned space opera (smashing planets, exploding galaxies) mixed with Clarke's Third Law ("Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.") The few human characters in earlier books (Araminta, Edeard) are reduced to comic book superheros by now. There's not a lot a reader can do with magic running the show except watch. Things just happen because they can. Paragraphs and paragraphs whiz by with sizzling energy beams and magic confluences and whatever. The Michael Bay approach to science fiction. Yawn. I quite liked the Edeard sections of the first book, grew concerned at how things developed in the 2nd, and the best I can say about the third is that things didn't get substantially worse.
    • 5/5
      Should have won an award. Just an excellent conclusion to the trilogy.