In AD 2329, humanity has colonised over four hundred planets, all of them interlinked by wormholes. With Earth at its centre, the Intersolar Commonwealth now occupies a sphere of space approximately four hundred light years across. When an astronomer on the outermost world of Gralmond, observes a star 2000 light years distant - and then a neighbouring one - vanish, it is time for the Commonwealth to discover what happened to them. For what if their disappearance indicates some kind of galactic conflict? Since a conventional wormhole cannot be used to reach these vanished stars, for the first time humans need to build a faster-than-light starship, the Second Chance. But it arrives to find each 'vanished' star encased in a giant force field -- and within one of them resides a massive alien civilisation.
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Peter F. Hamilton nació en 1960. Vendió su primera historia a la revista Fear, en 1988. Publicó en Interzone y en las antologías In Dream y New Worlds. Sus obras más representativas son La caída del dragón, la trilogía "Night s Dawn", situada en 2600, en un universo en el que las corporaciones se disputan los mundos, y la serie "La Federación" (La estrella de Pandora y Judas desencadenado), publicada en La Factoría de Ideas. Sus novelas poseen una ambientación futurista, decadente, con mundos en los que los efectos del calentamiento global aún perduran.