![]() ![]() Nominally, the Night’s Dawn trilogy is about a mysterious disaster originating on Lalaonde and threatening the entire Confederation. All very well, but there were hundreds of thousands of people who lived underneath the dogfights in the sky, whose lives were going to undergo monumental change because of the conflict (whoever won). ![]() Theirs is a fantastic story, full of heroism and struggle and sacrifice. ![]() A conflict which saw the warrior heroes of both countries battling it out for supremacy in the most sophisticated technology of the era. The example I always give is The Battle Of Britain. In an article on the writing of The Night’s Dawn trilogy, Hamilton says: Rather, their space is used deliberately to create an effect that would be impossible in a more focused volume. These books are not gigantic by accident. That size is what dictates pretty much element of the trilogy, from plot, to characters, to structure, to the writing itself. It’s by being twice the size of anything else on the shelf. Hamilton’s Night’s Dawn books immediately set themselves apart on any bookshelf. ![]()
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