The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)

by Peter F. Hamilton

Neither option sat comfortably in the mind;

Hamilton staple. Which option is scarier?

trisymmetric: three arms, three legs, three stumpy serpentlike sensor heads,

Like the Prime?

McBoeing

McDonalds joke?

Lalonde had no biota exceptionally hazardous to humans — a certificate which was vital

Tropical alien world with no KNOWN hostile native life... reminds me of Hamilton's later novel - The Great North Road.

There’s only two real options.” “Which are?” “They discovered

Again, Hamilton staple. Two choices. Which is scarier?

acting against all regulations (and common sense), put her finger under a weeping pod, then touched the single pearl of glistening fluid to her tongue. Norfolk’s natural order came to an immediate end.

Awesome

BDA-9008.

Big Damn Airplane?

Laton wasn’t a violence-tinged argument over resources or independence, he was after people, individuals. He wanted to get into your genes, your mind, and alter you, mould you to his own deviant construct. Laton was deadly personal.