Hamilton, Peter F_Commonwealth_Universe

Peter F. Hamilton (born 2 March 1960) is a British author. He is best known for writing space opera. As of the publication of his tenth novel in 2004, his works had sold over two million copies worldwide.

Confederation Universe
After the Greg Mandel novels, Hamilton wrote a space opera in three volumes, known collectively as The Night's Dawn Trilogy. The three books are each well over a thousand pages long and are not standalone novels, totaling 1.2 million words. The trilogy is set in a universe with a wealth of worlds and artificial orbiting colonies. The plot is centered on the souls of the dead coming back from a hellish "beyond" to possess the living, and the latter fighting back. It was followed by a companion to the series, The Confederation Handbook, an informational book containing data about the universe of the Night's Dawn trilogy. Hamilton re-set several earlier short stories in the Confederation timeline, published as the collection A Second Chance at Eden, including the newly written title novella.

The Reality Dysfunction Volume 1 of the Night's Dawn Trilogy
The Neutronium Alchemist Volume 2 of the Night's Dawn Trilogy
The Naked God Volume 3 of the Night's Dawn Trilogy
A Second Chance at Eden A collection of short stories set in the Confederation universe, but unrelated to the trilogy
The Confederation Handbook A book compiled from Peter's notes, providing detailed background information on many aspects of the Confederation Universe.

Fallen Dragon
His next full length novel, Fallen Dragon, is in many ways a condensation of the ideas and styles (and even characters) of the Night's Dawn trilogy, if rather darker in tone. The stand-alone book describes a bleak corporatist society dominated by five mega-corporations which wield almost unlimited power. It describes the troubled military campaign by one of these companies to "realise assets" from a minor colony, through the eyes of a veteran mercenary. One of the more interesting aspects of the book was its unconventional description of a spacefaring society which had not been able to develop an affordable method of interstellar travel, and where mankind does not easily adjust to zero gravity/free-fall conditions.

Commonwealth Universe
The Commonwealth Saga is published in two halves, Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained. Set approximately 300 years later in the same universe as Misspent Youth, it explores the social effects of the almost complete elimination of the experience of death following widespread use of the rejuvenation technique described in Misspent Youth. In somewhat similar style to Night's Dawn, Hamilton also outlines, in detail, a universe with a small number of distinct alien species interacting essentially peacefully and who suddenly become faced with an increasingly ominous external threat.

Misspent Youth A stand-alone novel telling the story of the first man to be rejuvenated.
Pandora's Star Volume 1 of the Commonwealth Saga
Judas Unchained Volume 2 of the Commonwealth Saga
The Dreaming Void Volume 1 of the Void Trilogy
The Temporal Void Volume 2 of the Void Trilogy
The Evolutionary Void Volume 3 of the Void Trilogy