false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170278253m/45260.jpg 45260 7 Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy--<I>The Reality Dysfunction</I>, <I>The Neutronium Alchemist</I> and now <I>The Naked God</I>--is ambitious in its galaxy-wide, multiple viewpoint plot, its political and metaphysical subject matter, its sheer 3,000-page scope. The damned have broken out of the afterlife and possessed whole planets; a gallant and untrustworthy space captain is haring off after alien sorts; and for the resurrected Al Capone, the secret masters of Earth and the government of the human Confederacy, it is business as usual...Hamilton's super-charged villain, Dexter Quinn, arrives on the home planet of humanity with a mission--to convert enough people to his Satanist creed that Earth can be taken out of the universe altogether: "Quinn raised an arm, his sleeve falling to reveal an albino hand with grizzled claw fingers. Three thin streamers of white fire lashed out from the talons, searingly bright in the gloomy, smoke-heavy air". The many fans of Hamilton's high-octane gloomy space opera will find this finale a worthy successor, and thrill to its many surprises; Hamilton's evocation of the depths of space and the strangeness of alien races has rightly won him much praise. A certain moral ambiguity has also crept in to what was at first a black and white universe--some of the returned damned are heroic and compassionate, and many of the living are not as nice as all that. --<I>Roz Kaveney</I> 1396625 1999 The Naked God (Night's Dawn Trilogy, Volume 3) total:627|5:238|4:253|3:112|2:17|1:7| 627 2579 816 20 4 0 false false Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 04:51:41 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 05:20:46 -0700 2009 The Reality...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 12:03:54 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 13:03:58 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Sun Oct 04 14:34:49 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 14:39:37 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Wed Jan 28 14:54:13 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 16:50:20 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jan 02 21:56:56 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 21:58:41 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sun Jul 19 14:32:01 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 13:46:33 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Oct 01 01:58:04 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 01:59:28 -0700 2009 ]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 15:53:05 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 15:54:25 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 17:00:04 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 18:50:19 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Jul 06 15:51:28 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 15:52:33 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Aug 07 14:32:42 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 14:33:23 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon May 11 14:58:14 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 14:58:28 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Jul 28 04:14:43 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 04:19:09 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 07:17:42 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 15:32:05 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sat Oct 18 04:26:21 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 18 04:29:11 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jul 14 09:30:32 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 27 02:02:03 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jan 08 07:52:29 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 05:18:55 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Wed Sep 10 22:48:22 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 22:50:28 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Wed Mar 21 14:17:58 -0700 2007 Fri Apr 20 11:32:02 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Thu Jan 17 20:15:17 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 17 20:15:40 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=45260