I'd say that this is Hamilton's best book. And it's only a single volume as well!
As a child, Lawrence Newton wanted nothing more than to fly starships and explore the galaxy, like his fictional heroes. But on the colony world of Amethi in the twenty-fourth century, Lawrence is living in the wrong era: the age of human starflight is drawing to a close. So, like many another teenage hothead, he rebels and runs away.
Twenty years later, he's the seargent of a washed-out platoon taking part in the bungled invasion of another world. The giant corporations who own the remaining starships euphamistically call such campaigns 'asset realization'. In practice it's simple piracy.
But while he's on the ground, being shot at and firebombed by disturbingly effective resistance forces, Lawrence hears stories about the Temple of the Fallen Dragon - the holy place of a sect devoted to the worship of a mythical creature that fell from the sky millenia before the arrival of humans. More importantly, its priests are said to guard a hoard of treasure large enough to buy lifelong happiness for any man, and that information alone is enough to prompt him to mount a small private-enterprise operation of his own.Peter F. Hamilton (homepage)
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Isn't science fiction such an exciting world to be enraptured by? Who else but the great sci-fi writers could think up of ways where human technology develops by ..er...lights years. Fallen Dragon tells the story of Lawrence Newton who dreams of becoming a starship captain.
Though the book mildly has themes of philosophies and power, it is as much a wonderful sci-fi book as Beyond This Point There Be Dragons is a fantastical dragon fantasy book. Follow Lawrence Newton as he moves in supersonic speed from life in planet Amethi as a young boy to that of a Zantiu-Braun squaddie sergeant. Denise Ebourn stirs things up for Lawrence.
Makes one wonder, whether the protagonist is called Newton as a tribute to the great Sir Isaac Newton.
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