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  • Night's Dawn, Book 3
  • By: Peter F. Hamilton
  • Narrated by: John Lee
  • Length: 48 hrs and 37 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (807 ratings)
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The Naked God

By: Peter F. Hamilton
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Summary

War rages on. All seems lost to this immense devastation. Across the galaxy, humanity's last hope may lie in wait. The Naked God is the epic, thrilling conclusion to the Night's Dawn trilogy, from Peter F. Hamilton.

The Confederation is verging on collapse, unable to prevent the enemy from sweeping through the galaxy. And Earth’s defences have finally been penetrated, its giant domed cities destroyed one by one. As time runs out for civilization, those who fight on must join forces and form new alliances – but an enemy’s enemy isn’t always a friend.

The war is desperate on all fronts, with battles fought on a scale unseen by humankind for six centuries. There are rumours that an ancient space-faring race faced this same threat to its existence – surviving with the help of the Sleeping God. If this mysterious and powerful entity truly exists, we may be able to find it. And if it really can avert the ultimate catastrophe, we may at last find hope.

Joshua Clavert and Syrinx now fly their starships on a mission to find the Sleeping God – which an alien race believes holds the key to finally overthrowing the possessed.

The Naked God is the final chapter of the trilogy which began with The Reality Dysfunction and The Neutronium Alchemist.

©2016 Peter F. Hamilton (P)2016 Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

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"The trilogy is an amazing piece of artwork, a masterpiece perhaps." (SFReviews.com)

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Hard To Keep Going

Of course, once you start to read a series of stories such as a trilogy, you really need to see it through. The Night's Dawn trilogy is one of Peter F Hamilton's earlier works recently brought to the audio format having originally been published back in the late 90's. This massive trilogy was penned by Hamilton before his Commonwealth saga and to my mind the Commonwealth saga is a better series of books. The Naked God has been perhaps the longest stab at completing a book I can remember in a long while because it didn't keep me interested long enough to prolong reading to any great degree and so this epic length novel took me about 3 weeks to consume in mostly small 15 or 20 minute morsels. As mentioned in my review of the Neutronium Alchemist, , I feel that the cast of characters Hamilton used in this series was too extensive which slowed the plot down as it often appeared as if proceedings were moving sideways rather than forwards as we dropped in on each of the numerous characters in turn. Hamilton has refined his story telling in the subsequent Commonwealth saga by reducing the number of key characters to a much more manageable quantity which in turn allows things to develop faster and hold the readers interest far more. Again, for the sake of fairness I would like to say that such a long story with a multitude of characters may need to be read in longer sittings in order to allow the reader to absorb more of what's going on so my feeling about this book might be remedied if this approach is adopted. To me, though, The Naked God suffers in the same way as the second in the trilogy did. By far the best in the trilogy is the first, The Reality Dysfunction which held my interest much more and as such I devoured it in longer and fewer sessions. I feel that Hamilton dragged things out over the second two books once he had built a great first act in the series.

Hamilton is a great writer but I think he tried rather too hard with the Night's Dawn trilogy. There was just too much unnecessary narrative which did little for the plot as a whole and only served to mire its pace to the point where I basically lost interest which was a shame. This experience does not colour my views of Hamilton as an author as I have read and greatly enjoyed all of his Commonwealth series . So, the Reality Dysfunction was by far the best of the series in my view with the last two parts being sadly drawn out affairs. Sure, there were highlights in both those books but they came rather too far apart to maintain reader interest. Hamilton clearly wanted to create scope by spreading the narrative over a large collection of characters but he went a little too far and the plot suffered as a result.

John Lee, as ever, does a sterling job with this very long book but I did spot a few inconsistencies which might have been some of the narrator reading things wrong as well as the author having written them wrong. For example, we are told that a particular journey will be some 1,600 light years but then we hear a couple of references to 16,000 light years. Then, the journey is extended another 300 odd light years and we come back to a total of 1,900 light years. Hard to say if that's narrator error or not. What I think was author error was a funny transposition where the following is read "She shielded her hand with her eyes.". Hmmm .. I am also a little confused as to whether the planetary system plane of planets or the galactic disc is the ecliptic or elliptic?

It is clear that Hamilton worked very long and hard on this book but I'm afraid The Naked God doesn't work for me and it was a long heavy read for the most part spread over too many characters. If you're new to Peter F Hamilton and have been put off his work then I would urge you to reconsider and get yourself Pandora's Star, the first in his excellent Commonwealth series. The Naked God is a five star effort but at best a 3 star read. It's too long because it's bloated with too many players all needing their slice of a plot which as a result moves too laboriously.

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Perfect ending, very well narrated.

I struggled a little bit through Neutronium alchemist (book 2) as I found the pacing and all the plot lines interrupted the flow of the book. Similar thing happens at the start of this book, however do not be discouraged. The book offers a perfect ending to the trilogy, bringing together all the loose ends of this epic saga.

The series in general is not only just an interesting read, it is a book that makes you think about life, its point and dealing with death.

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Pfffft bit of a waste after ~100hrs of content

This is just a bit meh. Found the end super disappointing considering how much build up went into it. I didn’t really get a satisfactory conclusion to many of the better story lines.

Narrations excellent tho Mr Lee is brilliant as always

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1.2 million words of the best space trilogy I've listened to.

I won't waste much time here to explain my thoughts in detail, however this was, I believe, the turning point in Peter's writing. So that means that these are the books that shattered his own preconception of what Science Fiction writing should be, and it launched him on a trajectory style all of his own.

The journey is long, so in preparation I give you two pieces of advice. 1: let the story wash over you without trying to remember all the details such as: people's names, where they are and what they doing. It will all become clear by repetition. And 2, this might just be the set of Science Fiction books that you spend the rest of your life searching to trying and better.

Enjoy.

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Superb Superb SUPERB...!!!

Wonderfully operatic in scope with a climatic crescendo of an ending to Peter F. Hamilton's trilogy. John Lee does a superb job of portraying a narrative and projects images of the story directly to the listener's imagination.
Bravo John Lee, Bravo...!

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who doesn't like finishing on a high note?

In the end the human race didnt solve its own problem with possession. They had a little.....or allot of help. it summed everything up just a little too fast. for a story that takes place over 120 hours it felt a bit hurried along to its conclusion.


still an excellent thought provokimg sci fi story. a classic in my humble opinion.

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Food for Thought. Eventually.

The Saga continues. And continues. I was beginning to wonder how close Mr Hamilton was going to cut it. And was delighted by how it all came together. SPOILERS LOL.

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very good story

this was very good but could do with some small gabs added when it changes story location

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Just as you would expect from a Peter F Hamilton

Loved it as I have all his books. The narration is fine and an easy listen.

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Phenomenally huge sci-fi.

The hardest part of a huge book, especially one as good as this, is finishing. I didn't want it to end. It took me three weeks to complete - plus the time to get through the first two parts - that I had become accustomed to the characters. I enjoyed spending time (and space) with them and felt I knew them personally.

Hamilton does a brilliant job of tying the multitude of strands together and the ending was certainly worth the time. The whole series comes in at about 130 hours but don't let that stop you. It is time well spent.

John Lee's narration is as good as always, he is one of my favourite readers. I know I haven't mentioned the story but that's because you should have read parts 1 & 2 first so you'll know what's happening. If you don't then start from the beginning. It is certainly worth it.

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