Review Salvation Lost (Salvation Sequence, #2) Written By Peter F. Hamilton Formatted As Kindle

Lost” is the second book in the Salvation Sequence by Peter F, Hamilton. Hamilton is one of the most prominent and skilled purveyors of advancedtechnology, military space opera science fiction, This new work is another example of this and includes variations on his oftrepeated themes: human contact with alien civilizations, stealth undercover agents and superwealthy scions of family dynasties.


The plot is split in two different stories that are set at least ten thousand years apart, The first is about the time a previously friendly alien species has begun an invasion of Earth and its occupied habitats in the Solar System and beyond.
The second is about human descendants of the survivors of the alien invasion who are still fighting those aliens in order to get revenge on them and prevent them from continuing their aeons old plan of searching for and kidnapping sentient beings to fulfill their religious beliefs about the end of time.


The two time lines are connected by the existence of what the later time calls the Saints of Salvation, These are the group of extraordinary individuals in the earlier time who were able to find a way to presumably thwart the intentions of the aliens and paved the way for the later humans to exist and continue the fight.


In the first book “Salvation” the primary narrative tension was built around trying to figure out which of the main characters in the primary time line turn out to become Saints as well as anticipating the horror of the fall of human civilization by alien invasion.
In the sequel “Salvation Lost” have the names of most of the Saints have been revealed but so has the fact that some of the main characters from Bookare undercover alien operatives.
The primary tension in this book comes from the details of the alien invasion which we know will be mostly successful from the existence of the later time line as well as the beginning of the counterattack in the later time line.


Neither time line is concluded in “Salvation Lost,” which is a typical weakness of the middle book in a trilogy.
This doesnt mean that theres a surfeit of action, character development or surprises, however, Hamilton does a good job of moving the story forward in both time lines and I look forward to getting all the answers about the early time line as well as the conclusion of the millenniaold battle with the evil aliens in the third book, “The Saints of Salvation.
” Just got more and more frustrated with this book as I read it, Most of the ideas are rehashed from previous PFH books human exodus from earth in face of all powerful threat Judas Unchained, religious nut jobs promising salvation Dreaming Void a few uberrich folks running the show and solving all the problems Commonwealth series, instantaneous travel between worlds punctuated by epic firefights in space pretty much every PFH book.
Sigh.

With the Canterbury tales approach to the first in the series, I thought I might get something different here, but alas, no.
PFH reverts to type and, while bits are not too bad future London well imagined, the whole story felt very much like a worn retread to me.


So much more creative, original and, frankly, entertaining SF to read out there, Space opera at its finest, The kind that comes in a trilogy of doorstoppers, and you dont care because you dont want it to end, At this time, a couple of hundred years in the future, humanity strives toward utopia with its solutions for cheap energy, ubiquitous teleportation, and the harnessing of wormholes to reach and terraform nearby planets.
As we learned in volume one, an alien race, the Olyix, approaches Earth in a large ship with messages about peace and wonderful technology to share.
However, study of alien artifacts in a nearby system suggest they have not come in peace, A collaboration of government, business, security and military wizards and problem solvers emerges to figure out what we should do, Early in this tale so not a serious spoiler, a human in their midst turns out to be a construct of another alien race on a mission to help humanity fight back.
The story is that the Olyix aim to somehow put all humans in hibernation so they can be merged into some kind of group mind at the end of time.


The cast of characters is wonderful, as usual with Hamilton, In addition to the set of powerful, bigego folk at the center of forging a consensus response, we periodically tap into colorful characters in the criminal underclass of London.
It was fun to experience them putting their own devious brilliance into play when the shit from the Olyix starts to hit the fan.
A third stream of action in the narrative comes from a set of humans and aliens thousands of years in the future and many light years from Earth.
It takes some time to understand what is happening with them, but the inference is clear that humans have lasted this long and fortunately still recognizable in their creativity, fallibility, egos, and humor and the struggle for survival persists.


A tale of all of humanity driven to work together to defeat a common threat is just what I needed.
Since I read the book last Fall, the tragic arrival of the Pandemic in the interval gives me more interest in reading the finale.


This book was provided for review by the publisher through the Netgalley program,
My giddy anticipation to read a new Hamilton book gt my brain logically telling me to wait for the whole trilogy to be released.


I couldn't wait, After throwing out my personal reading code of not starting trilogies until all are released earlier this year with the first two in Neal Asher's Rise of the Jain series, I decided to punish myself further by reading the first two in Hamilton's Salvation sequence knowing there would be at least a year long wait for the third.
And again I love and

hate me for it, Love because these books are beyond fantastic, hate because well, . . it's a fuckin' year wait,

Totally different in structure from the multiple character story arcs of book one, this one hits the ground running and chronicles two different timelines separated by an almost unfathomable length of time.
I won't go into what the plots are to avoid spoilers and because sincerely these books are to be savored and experienced with as little foreknowledge as possible to retain the amazing sense of wonder Hamilton presents.
I will say that everything is bigger though, The stakes, the danger, the scale of action, the cast of characters, . . it's all just so huge, I think Hamilton is one of the most cinematic authors writing today and hours would go by with everything playing out so very clearly in my head I would sometimes forget I was actually reading.
I've said it before and will say it again but I feel bad for people Jabronis who don't read because this shit here, these books, are more exciting than anything else being put out in any medium.
I don't care who ya are, that there is a fact,

Read these books to have fun, but be warned, These are the stay up toAM even though you gotta wake up atAM, whiteknuckle, just a few more pages, kinds of books and some of the easiest five I've ever given kinds of books.
And if you do read them, I hope you enjoy them as much as I have,

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