Mindstar Rising

Mindstar Rising is a turbo-charged near-future adventure. Against a background of corporate greed and compromised national security, an augmented private eye takes on an impossible challenge.

A pacey traditionally styled adventure yarn in which the reader can revel . . . Hamilton doesn’t mess about . . . the story races ahead with verve and flair

The plotting is tight and ingenious

Hamilton appears as a full-fledged SF technician , able to manage the demands of the genre without working up a sweat

A stunning new debut novel . . . possibly the best since Bester , incorporating future predictions of climate, social, social, business, and political behaviour, completing this with hard science, believable scenarios, excellently balanced characters , and a good well-told story. What more do you want? Not to be missed

Peter F. Hamilton was born in Rutland in 1960 and now lives in Somerset. He began writing in 1987, and sold his first short story to Fear magazine in 1988. He has written many bestselling novels, including the Greg Mandel series, the Night’s Dawn trilogy, the Commonwealth Saga, the Void trilogy, The Chronicle of the Fallers, short story collections and several standalone novels including Fallen Dragon and Great North Road .