A Second Chance At Eden

Condensed ingenuity for true hardcore fans who can´t get enough of the wonderful, unique Nights´ Dawn universe. This has to come with a high subjectivity warning, because I couldn´t fanboy enough about Hamilton. I am very close to calling him the best, and one of the easiest to enter if one is intere......more

Having read and loved the Night's Dawn Trilogy (as well as Fallen Dragon and the Mandell trilogy) it was only natural that I wanted to read Hamilton's collection of short story 'prequels' set in the confederation universe; the same universe that sets the backdrop for the NDT. A handful of short stori......more

I first read this one when I was 20, and it doesn't hold up at all. Hamilton the literary cheat is firing on all cylinders here, inventing circumstances and actions and motivations all because they are necessary for the narrative, and never because they make a lick of sense to the characters involve......more

Really solid short story collection set in the Confederation universe of the Night's Dawn trilogy. All the stories were pretty solid except for one. A couple felt like they could have been Black Mirror episodes which I really enjoyed. In fact one of those, Sonnie's Edge, was adapted into a Love, Dea......more

I enjoyed these short stories set in the Confederation universe of Hamilton's Night's Dawn. They illuminate various parts of the rich world-building of the Edenists and Adamists. I thought the title story was the strongest. I also felt that some of Hamilton's greatest weaknesses as a writer (impossi......more