The Temporal Void

Void, Book 2

By: Peter F. Hamilton

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 25 hrs and 10 mins

Publisher's summary

Will their heart's desire doom a civilization? The bestselling Void trilogy continues in The Temporal Void, an astonishing and vast space opera from Peter F. Hamilton, set in the world of the Commonwealth.

The Commonwealth is in turmoil, as a cult prepares for its pilgrimage into the Void. Breaching its boundaries could cause an irreparable rift in space. Yet these fanatics are unstoppable, convinced by the Void’s projections of a paradise within. An alien invasion fleet is also on the way, as the Oscien Empire attempts to take advantage of humanity’s confusion.

Investigator Paula Myo must hunt the Void’s latest prophet, in an attempt to stop her spreading its enticing visions. And at the heart of events is Edeard the Waterwalker, who lived long ago within the Void. Tales of his glorious story inspired the Pilgrimage – but may yet expose the Void’s true nature.

The Temporal Void is the second book in the Void trilogy. Complete the epic adventure with The Evolutionary Void.

©2009 Peter F Hamilton (P)2009 Tantor Media, Inc

Great book but parts are not in the right order

Be aware that on Android, high quality version is not in order (maybe other versions are too) part 3 is after part 1. Then part 2.

Gotta keep listening...

Again, Peter F Hamilton produces stories that makes to stick a headset into your ear wherever you go. The narration by John Lee is better than the previous book, in my opinion, and makes it fairly easy to keep track of who's talking to who.

Now, off to the next part and hope it won't fall flat on its own grandeur.

breathtaking story

has opened my mind to news ideas, I will recommend this to all my friends with similar interests.

Best one yet!

This was my fifth very lengthy title by Peter Hamilton, all of which in the same universe, and I have to say, this is the best one so far! And the rest got 4 stars from me as well, mind you.

This second novel in the Void trilogy really deepens both stories of this novel-within-a-novel, in an exciting way. There's the scifi story with several well-loved characters, and then of course there's the fantasy novel about Edeard, living his life on a planet in the Void.

The climax near the end of the novel is awesome, I have to say I thought "OMG Hamilton pulled a Game of Thrones!"
And as if that weren't enough, he also manages to add a third (sub)genre to this one novel, namely the superhero archetypal story. And there was even a hint of Western this time. I loved it, it was so well done!

This story has everything I want from my novels: a thrilling plot, my three favorite genres, well fleshed-out characters, romance, adventure, high tech, magic, and some very, very skilled writing.

Narration, as always with John Lee, was absolutely superb.

Can't praise this novel enough - a credit well, well spent!

Another great Story!!

This series has been great! The commonwealth is an awesome look at the potential of Mankind!
A truly great writer and a gray story!

Better than any of the faller shite

If you can stand the retro-ish adulation of Hamilton's of anything old-fashioned, be it social structures, clothing, vehickes, weaponry or building, you'll propably like the space operaey bits of the book. My beef with Hamilton is the fetishising of ye old English Class Society and its strata and outerly manifestations. Especially when it comes to wasting literally hundreds of pages of writing Downtown Abbey in a supposedly Sci-Fi novel. Hate it. Absolutely detest it.

However, when he focuses on the futuristic aspects of his novels, grandiose plots, clack and dagger scheming between factions, and spectacular space battles using world-devouring weaponry he is stellar. Describing gritty insurgency by a people suddenly occupied by a feverishly cultist faction is spellbinding.

So all in all, I seem to have a love-hate relationship with Hamilton's writing. My sincere recommendation is to delve into his complex worlds and labyrinthine way pe waiting in this form. The Reader here does a very good job of making the text come to life .

Having spent the better part of the year of ploughing through Night's Dawn trilogy, I decided to give these a go as audiobooks. Definitely easier. Yes, you do have to rewind often to stay on track with all the plot-twists and the plethora of characters and their motivations, but it is far less stressing than reading it your self.

So recommended and also warning to stay away from Hamilton as well. A completely schitzoid writer that Hamilton, yes. But I love to hate him.

Incredible ride

Hamilton is an author who can bring the reader to multiple umm climactic peaks. There are several early on in the book and you are left to wonder. How can he make such a peak of excitement and then just carry on writing. Makes for an incredible ride

This book is corrupted

Any additional comments?

This is a favorite book of mine, I have listened to it several times. I re-downloaded recently, there are now large chunks missing, including the end

seems to start in middle

very confusing layout jumped around difficult to what was what and who was who

Horrible production of a decent book

If you like Peter F. Hamilton this is as good as it gets, and the narrator is quite okay too, but the production stinks and I gave up completely after 40 minutes. The volume is extremely uneven. If you adjust it for one recording section then all of a sudden you can't hear what's being said in the next section, raise the volume and then you'll go deaf 30 seconds later. Audible should really screen the books better to avoid selling crap like this.