Not sure about the narrator!

What made the experience of listening to The Dreaming Void the most enjoyable?

I have been listening to Peter F Hamilton's books and most of these stories are the basic tale of good -v- evil. The worlds that Peter Hamilton has created using a mixture of science fact and science fiction to believable.

So far they have been narrated by John Lee and I have got used to his interpretations of the characters. It is a pity that Toby Longworth didn't listen to the previous audio books to keep some sort of continuity. The ones that jarred where Paula and Oscar.

Otherwise, he has a good voice.

If you listen to it while doing other things, you may have to replay as some of the story has facts that are absolutely essential.

Who was your favorite character and why?

The joy of PFH's books are the many characters and you have to keep your wits about you to know where you are. The characters are all believable. I loved the relationship between Hakim and Eddiard and Eddiard and his fellow constables.

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

Yes as in come cases the story moved so fast you had to listen quite hard but that is the style of the story.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

When Eddiard's village was ransacked by the bandits.

Any additional comments?

Good story.

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READ PANDORAS STAR AND JUDSS UNCHAINED FIRST!!

This trilogy follows the Commonwealth Saga books! This book takes a while to get going and I know a lot of people don't like the narrator's different accent choices but I actually thought it worked! Peter F Hamilton writes an incredible epic story with all the seemingly independent story arcs coming together in brilliant ways - there are also nods to the previous books and characters. For me the future presented by Peter is the most accurate that I've ever seen presented. Hats off to him! buy all of his books!

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Amazing Story Amazing Narrator

Surprisingly great book and Narration. Just a shame the narrator for the other two parts of the trilogy changed. But to be honest I got this trilogy because of the narrator of the second and third book.

The Universe shaped by the author is amazing and very remenescing of the way Ian M. Banks did it in his novels.

Highly recommended

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Good but...

As good as a tale as you expect from PFH my only complaint was a couple of the voices.... what happened to Paula Myo her voice has changed into a bad Chris Eubank impression nothing like in the Commonwealth Saga where she sounded reasonable!

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Superb

Peter F Hamilton just gets better and better, this is his first Commonwealth series book available on Audible. It basicaly contains two seperate books, a hard sci-fi book with lots of knowing winks to his previous Starflyer books and a medieval style fantasy tale, although of course somewhere down the line they will connect.

The charcters are excellenty drawn, and the plot is tight yet expansive. I particularly like the details he adds in some of the sub plots that makes the book come alive. Thoroughly recommended and cant wait for the next book (this being the first of a trilogy)

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amazing

start to finish an awsome story. The characters come to life with this narrator. don't be put off by the length. This can be listened to time and time again.

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Engagingly brilliant

Toby Longworth is the perfect narrator for Peter F Hamilton's latest sci-fi epic.
From the first few words I was hooked and drawn into the many stranded plot. The pace never flags and Toby's characterisation is engaging and entertaining.

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Utterly utterly marvelous!

I've been looking for another truly great sci-fi author forever. I've only listened to the first in the trilogy so far but, dare I say it, this is as good as Greg Bear at his best. If you liked Eon, Eternity, The Forge of God, Anvil of stars etc you will love this. If you liked The Rama saga by Arthur C Clarke, or The Foundation saga by Isaac Asimov, this book if right up your nebula. Don't hesitate, buy this now! The narration (barring his voice for anyone in the story who's drunk) is also rather excellent.

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A wonderful story read by a brillant voice artist

I picked this book up purely on a whim, having never read anything by the author before and simply being attracted by the bargin of a single credit for so many hours of book.

I couldn't have been more happy with my purchase. The story is grand with the action constant and the voice acting of Toby Longworth is simply stunning. His voices are varied to the point you can easily tell which character is speaking and indeed what they are feeling.

I'm waiting now with bated breath for the second book. I managed to resist buying the dead tree edition so I can have the joy of having it read to me hopefully by the same fantastic talent.

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The Dreaming Void

I had never read anything by Peter Hamilton before but this was a superb listen, it kept me on the edge of my seat for weeks and I am really keen to read the next part of the story. I would highly recommend this original and inventive book to anyone who wonders where mankind could eventually end up and whether with exceptionally long lives we would become better people. From the evidence of this book that is unlikely.

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