Extrait :
Many thanks for taking the time to answer some questions Peter. So, we’ll jump straight into things. The Evolutionary Void is due out this September and is the final book in your Void trilogy, starting with the Dreaming Void and continuing with The Temporal Void. Despite this series being in the region of 2,100 pages and covering a whole host of plot threads and storylines, can you give a brief overview of the story?
Peter F.Hamilton : See, this is why I don’t do a what-happened-before summery at the start of each book.
The Commonwealth is a society spread across hundreds of worlds, with many types of humans, from ‘normals’ to those with bodies enhanced by biononics, to downloaded personalities in a single Artificial Intelligence. It’s a peaceful civilized existence. Then Inigo dreams of a life of a human inside the Void, a different realm at the centre of the galaxy, with some very strange physical laws. A whole religion grows up around these dreams, with billions of people wanting to pilgrimage into the Void to live the life of their idol there. If they do that, everyone else believes the Void will have to expand to devour the rest of the galaxy to power the abilities they will have inside the Void. So... it’s really a battle about rights and responsibilities, with a number of factions out to stop this pilgrimage, and others supporting it.