Monday 15 June 2009

The Nano Flower - Peter F Hamilton

The Nano Flower

By: Peter F Hamilton

From: Pan

This book will suffer ultimately, not because it is bad - it is very good, because it is almost prophetic in some of the scenarios laid out.

Several themes, that in 1995 would have seemed dramatic, have started to bear fruit. The issue of global warming and freak climate runs through the book, with parts of Norfolk flooded, in real life they now talk of letting the sea reclaim parts of Norfolk. Petrol driven cars are a rarity, in real life hybrids and electric cars are starting to gain traction and movements are underway to ban large petrol guzzlers from city centres.

So I suppose you should best view this as an alternate universe, similar to ours, just out of step slightly.

Anyway, back to the book - Greg Mandel is called back to find out who sent Julia Evans a very unusual flower.

Building on the characters introduced on the other books in the series - 'Mindstar Rising' and 'A Quantum Murder', this story takes place a few years later and gives you quite a ride. You discover that even the best of friends can feel betrayed and protected, and the best of protectors cannot always protect. Sometimes, as always you have to face your own inner demons and live your life.

Instead of suffering from 'end-of-series'itis, this book delivers an unexpected finale and concludes, I feel the trilogy very well.

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