[bksvol-discuss] Re: Submitted: The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton

  • From: "Robert Riddle" <captinlogic@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 13:58:42 -0500

Does this follow the Night's Dawn trilogy, or is it stand alone?
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: EVAN REESE 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 10:49 AM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Submitted: The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton


  Hello All,

  I have just submitted The Dreaming Void (Void Trilogy, Book One) by Peter F. 
Hamilton. I am now working on The Temporal Void (Void Trilogy, Book Two).

  It has been read through completely, all 630 pages of it, and every word in 
Ranked Spelling has been checked, so it has a Ranked Spelling rating of 100 
percent. All chapter titles have been enlarged and have page numbers above 
them. All page numbers and page breaks are present. Dust jacket synopsis is 
below.

  Since I have read through it and done a complete spell check, hopefully no 
major errors will get through if it gets Jiffy proofed. However, whether 
whoever checks it out reads it or not, could someone please, please uncheck the 
Adult rating on this book. Here are the figures from Bookshare that--in its 
infinite wisdom--cause this book to be rated Adult:
  Out of a total of 222,356 words 22 were marked as "severe" and 113 as 
"warning" for
  a percentage of adult content of: 0.061%.
  Bookshare's analysis indicates that this title should be marked as having 
adult content.
  How the hell long have wee been asking for this to be fixed? At least to the 
extent of allowing submitters to change this rating if we see fit? Yeah, if I 
sound irritated, well, I am.

  Here's the synopsis. Enjoy.
  The year is 3589, fifteen hundred years after Commonwealth forces barely 
staved off human extinction in a war against the alien Prime. Now an even 
greater danger has surfaced: a threat to the existence of the universe itself.

  At the very heart of the galaxy is the Void, a self-contained microuniverse 
that cannot be breached, cannot be destroyed, and cannot be stopped as it 
steadily expands in all directions, consuming everything in its path: planets, 
stars, civilizations. The Void has existed for untold millions of years. Even 
the oldest and most technologically advanced of the galaxy's sentient races, 
the Raiel, do not know its origin, its makers, or its purpose.

  But then Inigo, an astrophysicist studying the Void, begins dreaming of human 
beings who live within it. Inigo's dreams reveal a world in which thoughts 
become actions and dreams become reality. Inside the Void, Inigo sees paradise. 
Thanks to the gaiafield, a neural entanglement wired into most humans, Inigo's 
dreams are shared by hundreds of millions--and a religion, the Living Dream, is 
born, with Inigo as its prophet. But then he vanishes.

  Suddenly there is a new wave of dreams. Dreams broadcast by an unknown Second 
Dreamer serve as the inspiration for a massive Pilgrimage into the Void. But 
there is a chance that by attempting to enter the Void, the pilgrims will 
trigger a catastrophic expansion, an accelerated devourment phase that will 
swallow up thousands of worlds.

  And thus begins a desperate race to find Inigo and the mysterious Second 
Dreamer. Some seek to prevent the Pilgrimage, others to speed its 
progress--while within the Void, a supreme entity has turned its gaze, for the 
first time, outward....



  Evan

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