Talk:Void Trilogy

Trivia
I'm removing the trivia line that says "The english paper-back book has been released from Amazon.de on July 30, 2007" as the book was only released on 3rd August 2007 so I dont see how this could be right. Additianally having looked on Amazon.de they list the paperback release date as 25th March 2008. If anyone has any further info showing otherwise I'm happy for this to be changed.Lumpy bd 07:27, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

The Dreaming Void Infobox
I'm removing the book infobox shown below as it refers specificallyy to The Dreaming Void which has it's own page along with it's own infobox which is also more detailed.Lumpy bd 08:20, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

From the inside flap section
I'm removing the section shown below titled From the Inside Flap as it relates specifically to The Dreaming Void and as such is already shown in that article.Lumpy bd 08:24, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

From the Inside Flap

AD 3580. The Intersolar Commonwealth has spread through the galaxy to over a thousand star systems. It is a culture of rich diversity with a place for everyone. A powerful navy protects it from any hostile species that may lurk among the stars. For Commonwealth citizens, even death has been overcome.

At the centre of the galaxy is the Void, a strange artificial universe created by aliens billions of years ago, shrouded by an event horizon more deadly than any natural black hole. In order to function, it is gradually consuming the mass of the galaxy. Watched over by its ancient enemies, the Raiel, the Void's expansion is barely contained.

Inigo dreams of the sweet life within the Void, and shares these visions with billions of avid believers. When he mysteriously disappears, Inigo's followers decide to embark on a pilgrimage into the Void to live the life of their messiah's dreams - a pilgrimage which the Raiel claim will trigger a catastrophic expansion of the Void.

Aaron is a man whose only memory is his own name. He doesn't know who he used to be, or what he is. All he does know is that his job is to find the missing messiah and stop the pilgrimage. He's not sure how to do that, but whoever he works for has provided some pretty formidable weaponry that ought to help.

Meanwhile inside The Void, a youth called Edeard is coming to terms with his unusually strong telepathic powers. A junior constable in Makkathran, he starts to challenge the corruption and decay that have poisoned the city. He is determined that his fellow citizens should know hope again. What Edeard doesn't realize is just how far his message of hope is reaching.

"Utopian, paradise-like dimension"?
There is a claim that Hamilton is suppose to have "revealed" that "the black hole at the core of the Milky Way Galaxy is actually a portal to a utopian, paradise-like dimension".

This seems to be (possibly) bad physics as well as (definitely) bad sociology: Read the first two volumes, and you'll see that life in Edeard's world is at least as unfair as in the outer universe it portrays; it can be plenty brutal and poor; for the less fortunate, it is arguably a lot worse than in his "ordinary" universe. You stand a chance of being killed by wolves, or getting to spend your life hauling firewood and water on your back; this is only "utopian" and "paradise-like" to rabid religious nutcases, like the "Dreamer" sect that wants to dive into the Void. (Or to wild-eyed Fantasy fans, who somehow always seem to think that if they got transplanted to Berengaria / Middle Earth / The Two Rivers [etc, etc], they'd end up as clerics, warriors, or nobles -- never the much more numerous peasants [the absolute majority of whom don't manage to rise above their station, but die as poor as their fathers and forefathers did, and as their children and grandchildren will] or slaves [the absolute majority of whom don't manage to escape from the salt mines / the King's galleys, but are forced to work themselves to death under the whips of the overseers].)

And I'm not sure a gigantic black hole has to have any separate "dimension" inside; the gimmick has been used at least once before, in Pohl's Heechee series, and there it was portrayed as just ordinary space.

Anyway, without a reference it's hard to know whether he actually said all that is claimed here, or how much came from the listener. But still, one must presume that even at that early stage, he must have known this much of the outline of the Void, so I doubt he actually said exactly that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by CRConrad (talk • contribs) 13:45, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Equivalence in synopses
Book 1 has a pretty good synopsis, whereas the editor who wrote about book 2 just described some in-universe concepts, and book 3's synopsis doesn't really match the level of depth and narrative fluency.

It would be helpful if someone with a solid memory of the books could do some work to bring them in line with each other. --Scott.w.ramsay (talk) 16:31, 6 January 2022 (UTC)


 * It's been too long since I read the book to do a proper synopsis, but book 3's section isn't a synopsis of the book at all. Instead it's a duplicate of the background information about the universe's setting that's also at the bottom of the page. Maestro4k (talk) 22:49, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

Remove "The Void"
All the content in the section titled "The Void" is repeated from "The Temporal Void", without elaboration. Z!t!@n «T@1k»  00:00, 25 April 2024 (UTC)