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The Reality Dysfunction

Peter F. Hamilton

19961 pagesabout 5–10 minutes
1996
first published
  • 1996Warner Books · 588 pages · ENGISBN 9780446605151
  • 2001Orbit · ENGISBN 9780316040402
  • 2012Pan MacmillanISBN 9781447208570
  • 1996Macmillan · 960 pages · ENGISBN 9780333634271
  • 2021Tantor and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pagesISBN 9781799997672
  • 2009Subterranean · 912 pagesISBN 9781596062535
  • 2005Pan Books · 588 pagesISBN 9780330340328
  • 1999Robert Laffont · 625 pagesISBN 9782221089934

Space is not the only void...In AD 2600 the human race is finally beginning to realize its full potential. Hundreds of colonized planets scattered across the galaxy host a multitude of prosperous and wildly diverse cultures. Genetic engineering has pushed evolution far beyond nature's boundaries, defeating disease and producing extraordinary spaceborn creatures. Huge fleets of sentient trader starships thrive on the wealth created by the industrialization of entire star systems. And throughout inhabited space the Confederation Navy keeps the peace. A true golden age is within our grasp. But now something has gone catastrophically wrong. On a primitive colony planet a renegade criminal's chance encounter with an utterly alien entity unleashes the most primal of all our fears. An extinct race which inhabited the galaxy aeons ago called it "The Reality Dysfunction." It is the nightmare which has prowled beside us since the beginning of history. *The Reality Disfunction* is a modern classic of science fiction, an extraordinary feat of storytelling on a truly epic scale.

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