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Автор Питер Гамильтон
After twenty years, it’s probably
about time I said thank you.
In a unique project aimed at enhancing the reader’s experience, composer Steve Buick has produced an album of musical atmospheres inspired by Peter F. Hamilton’s new
novel
Contents
Commonwealth Timeline
List of Characters
Map
BOOK ONE: Twenty-Seven Hours and Forty-Two Minutes
BOOK TWO: Dreams from the Void
July 9th 3326
Two Months Earlier: May 17th 3326
May 19th 3326
May 22nd 3326
May 29th 3326
July 9th 3326
July 11th 3326
BOOK THREE: Revolution for Beginners
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2
3
4
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7
BOOK FOUR: Cell Structure
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2
3
4
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BOOK FIVE: Those who Fall
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2
3
4
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BOOK SIX: Those who Rise
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2
3
4
5
6
EPILOGUE: Beyond the Abyss
Commonwealth Timeline
1,000,000 BC (approx. )
Raiel armada invades the Void. Never returns.
AD
1200 Prime species’ home star system and renegade Prime colony star (Dyson pair) quarantined behind force fields by the Anomine.
1900 Starflyer crash-lands on Far Away, 400 light years from Earth.
2037 First attempted human rejuvenation, Jeff Baker.
2050 Nigel Sheldon and Ozzie Isaacs open a wormhole to surface of Mars.
2057 Wormhole opened to Proxima Centuri. Start of interstellar colonization.
2100 Eight new worlds settled. Official formation of Intersolar Commonwealth Council, the ‘Parliament of Worlds’.
2100 onward Massive expansion of human settlements across H-congruous planets.
Rise of the Big15 industrial worlds.2102 Huxley’s Haven founded, genetic conformist constitution.
2150 Prime star disappears from Earth’s sky – unnoticed.
2163
2222 Paula Myo born on Huxley’s Haven.
2270 Prime star pair identified as Dyson Emission Spectrum twins.
2380 Dudley Bose observes Dyson Alpha vanish.
2381 Starship
2381–2383 Starflyer War.
2384 First colony fleet (Brandt Dynasty) leaves to found human colony outside Commonwealth.
2545 onward Use of large starships to establish Commonwealth ‘External’ worlds.
2550 Commonwealth Navy Exploration fleet founded to explore the galaxy beyond the External worlds.
2560 Commonwealth Navy ship
2603 Navy discovers seventh
2620 Raiel confirm their status as ancient galactic race who lost a war against the Void.
2833 Completion of ANA (Advanced Neural Activity) first stage on Earth. Grand Family members begin memory download into ANA.
2867 Sheldon Dynasty gigalife project partially successful, first human body biononic supplements for regeneration and general iatrics.
