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rpmiller 's review for:
Pandora's Star
by Peter F. Hamilton
This book is a combination of multiple fairly good stories. However, even though the book is quite long, none of the primary stories actually comes to a conclusion. Hopefully the sequel is where the stories end, but after investing time and effort in this first volume one will probably have to double that time and effort with only a hope for a satisfying ending, no guarantee. There are plenty of good ideas. Perhaps the stories could be separated in a way that would make a good series of stories each contained in a single book, but if not then both volumes of this set should be published as a single book. At least the reader would know how long the story is. Another option would be to drop some of the stories or relegate them to minor background stories with less detail. Well, those options were not the choice of the author or the publisher. Maybe someday I will read the sequel.